League of Outstanding Gentlemen (comic book)

Volume I

After the events described in Dracula , the now disgraced and divorced Mina Harker (née Murray) is hired by Campion Bond on behalf of British intelligence and is tasked with gathering a team of other extraordinary personalities to defend the interests of the British Empire . Together with Captain Nemo Mina, he travels to Cairo to find Allan Quatermain , then to Paris to search for Dr. Jekyll , and finally to London , where she forcibly recruits Hawley Griffin , the invisible man who completes the incarnation of the League. After meeting with Professor Kavor, the League goes to the lair of Fu Manchu , who stole the only known instance of keyorite - a very rare substance with which he planned to create a military airship and threaten them with Britain. Ultimately, upon receiving a keyitory, the League passes it into the hands of its employer, Professor Moriarty , who plans to use it on his aircraft to bomb the enemy’s den at Limehouse , most of London and the League with him. An aerial battle begins over London, and the League ultimately wins. Mycroft Holmes takes Moriarty’s position as the League’s employer, and eminent gentlemen are given the task of remaining in the service of the Crown, awaiting England's challenge.

Volume II

Placed during the events of Herbert Wells ' novel “ War of the Worlds, ” Volume II begins on Mars , where John Carter and Lieutenant Gulliver Jones ( Edward Arnold , “ Gulliver on Mars ”) form an alliance to fight the Martian invaders. When the invaders are forced to leave Mars and land on Earth , they begin to build tripods. Griffin leaves the League under the guise of invisibility to make an alliance with the invaders, but before openly betraying, steals plans for the defense of London, also physically and emotionally attacking Mina.

Mycroft Holmes sends Nemo and Hyde to defend the capital, patrolling the rivers of London with the help of Nautilus . Meanwhile, Mina and Quartermain meet with Dr. Moreau in his forest shelter and tell him that MI5 is interested in what is known as H-142. Hyde returns to the museum and torments Griffin: breaks his leg and rapes before killing. Hyde then dies, struggling with a tripod and letting MI5 launch the H-142. However, before he dies, he asks Mina for two things: kiss her and touch her breast.

MI5 launches H-142, a hybrid bacterium composed of anthrax and streptococcus . From this, as well as from Bond's cool answer that they will claim that the Martians died from a cold, Nemo is furious. Outraged by the British government’s heartless use of biological weapons, Nemo leaves for Nautilus and says that Quatermain and Murray “never looked for [him] again,” mistakenly believing that they knew the details of the British intelligence plan.

Black Dossier

Volume III

Volume IV

Nemo

• Mina Murray - a woman bitten by Dracula, is considered the head of the League. After the events of the novel "Dracula", many gossiped about her connection with the cruel vampire. She is hired by Campion Bond for a task of national importance - to save the empire, for which it is necessary to gather people with outstanding abilities. Due to the lack of proper leadership and responsibility among team members, it immediately becomes its head. As events fall in love with Quartermain.
• Allan Quatermain is an aging hunter and adventurer, now a lonely old man who is dependent on opium. Grouchy, dissatisfied with Mina's position in the League, but obeyed in everything. Master shooter. Allan and Mina are the only ones who remain in the League after its collapse.
• Captain Nemo is an old pirate who has long been considered dead after the events of the mysterious island novel. Gloomy, not tolerating being on land, faithfully devoted to his ship, hates the Empire. The only reason he is in the League is the promise of the British to liberate India, but after the events of the second volume he is forever disappointed in people and leaves on Nautilus away.
• Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde are a split personality professor. Forever moody, ominous, but very noble. His second personality, Edward Hyde, is a brutal maniac who kills prostitutes in London. In the second volume, he rapes Griffin. Dies during the battle with the tripod.
• Hawley Griffin is a scientist who invented a way to become invisible. After the events of the novel "The Invisible Man", he hid for a long time in a guesthouse where he raped young girls, many of whom were pregnant from him and considered him to be " Holy Spirit ." First it helps the League, then it betrays them to the Martian invaders and steals the plans of London. Hyde torments and rapes him, who learned about the betrayal.

• " Keepers "
• “ V means vendetta ”
• " From hell "