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'''''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen''''' ('''''LoEG''''') is a multi-genre, cross-over ] series co-created by writer ] and artist ] which began in 1999. The comic book spans ], an original ], and a spin-off trilogy of graphic novellas. '']'' and '']'' (released as two six-issue limited series) and the graphic novel '']'' were published by the ] imprint of ]. After leaving the America's Best imprint, the series moved to ] and ], which published '']'' (released as three graphic novellas), the '']'' (a spin-off of three graphic novellas centered on the character of ]), and '']'' (originally released as a six-issue limited series). According to Moore, the concept behind the series was initially a "] of ]" but he quickly developed it as an opportunity to merge elements from numerous works of fiction into one world, in a matter akin to the shared fictional universes of ] and ].


Elements of ''Volume I'' were used in a loosely adapted feature ], released in 2003 and starring ] in his last live-action role.
'''''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen''''' is a ] ] written by ] and illustrated by ], published under the ] imprint of ]. As of ] it comprises two six-issue limited series, each collected in ] format. There is also a ] short story, "]", included in the first series, and an extensive appendix detailing the alternate universe the League is set in, called "]", in Volume Two. The story takes place in 1898 in a ] where all of the characters and events from ] (and possibly the entirety of fiction) coexist. The world the characters inhabit is one more technologically advanced than our own was in the same era, but also home to the strange and supernatural.


==Plot== ==Plot==
{{Main|List of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen titles}}
===Volume I===
The year is 1898, and ] is recruited by ] on behalf of ] and asked to assemble a league of other extraordinary individuals to protect the interests of the ]: ], ], ], and ] ]. They help stop a ] between ] and ], nemesis of ]. Following this they take part in the events of ]'s '']''. Two members of the League (Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain) achieve immortality, and are next seen in an adventure in 1958. This follows events that take place after the fall of the ] government from ]'s '']''.
{{main|The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I}}
]


Following this, Mina and Allan team up with fellow immortal ] and are shown in an adventure which spans a century, from 1910 to 2009, concerning a plot by evil magicians to create a ] that might well turn out to be the ]. During this adventure ]'s daughter Janni Dakkar is introduced, and some of her adventures are chronicled subsequently. The final volume of the series ends with an immortal Mina escaping an Earth dominated by magical entities and various alien invasions to live out her immortal life on a space station with Orlando, Jack Nemo (great-grandson of Captain Nemo) and a clone of Mr. Hyde.
At the behest of Campion Bond, Mina Harker begins recruiting members of the new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: after recruiting Captain Nemo in circumstances unknown, Mina goes to Cairo to locate Allan Quatermain, then on to Paris in search of Dr. Jekyll; finally in London she contacts the Invisible Man, who completes this incarnation of the League. Volume I deals with a power struggle between ] and ].


===Volume II=== ==Characters==
All characters within the series are either pre-existing characters, or are in some way related to one.
{{main|The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II}}


{{Main|List of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen characters}}
Placed during the events of ]'s "]", the League split up into two groups; with Mina and Allan sent off to find a reclusive doctor in the woods, Nemo and Hyde remain to fight the first wave of tripods, but what is Griffin up to? Featuring John Carter and Gulliver Jones on Mars and a surprise ending to the invasion.
===The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen===
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===Nemo trilogy===
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* Jack Dakkar / Captain Nemo III
* Tacarigua Ishmael
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== About the series == ==Overview of the series==
In a 1997 interview with ] for the now defunct Comics World website, Alan Moore gave the title of the work as "''The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk''". Moore changed the name to ''Gentlemen'' to better reflect the Victorian era. ] was originally going to be the artist for the series before being replaced by Kevin O'Neill.


The Victorian setting allowed Moore and O'Neill to insert "in-jokes" and cameos from many works of Victorian fiction, while also making contemporary references and jibes, and also bear numerous ] influences. In the first issue, for example, there is a half-finished bridge to link Britain and France, referencing problems constructing the real-world ] (this is also a possible reference to ]'s novel '']'', which mentions a cross-channel bridge). The juxtaposition of characters from different sources in the same story is similar to ] writer ]'s works centering around the ]. The Victorian setting allowed Moore and O'Neill to insert "in-jokes" and cameos from many works of Victorian fiction, while also making contemporary references and jibes. The works bear numerous ] influences. In the first issue, for example, there is a half-finished bridge to link Britain and France, referencing problems constructing the ].<ref name="enjolrasworld.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Jess%20Nevins/League%20of%20Extraordinary%20Gentlemen/LoEG%20index.htm|title=Jess Nevins' Annotations}}</ref>


Besides the character of Campion Bond, who could not be called the ancestor of ] directly due to licensing issues, every character in the series, from the ] schoolmistress ] to single-panel throwaway characters like Inspector ], is an established character from a previous work of fiction or an ancestor of a character from modern-day fiction. This has lent the series considerable popularity with fans of esoteric Victoriana, who have delighted in attempting to place every character who makes an appearance. Most characters in the series, from the ] schoolmistress ] to minor characters such as Inspector ], are either established characters from existing works of fiction or ancestors of the same, to the extent that individuals depicted in crowd scenes in Volume I have been said (both by Moore, and in annotations by ]) to be visually designed as the ancestors of the cast of the ] soap opera '']''. This has lent the series considerable popularity with fans of esoteric Victoriana, who have delighted in attempting to place every character who makes an appearance.<ref name="enjolrasworld.com"/>


Moore said:
] and ] are notably absent from the League's adventures due to their deaths prior to the events of the series, though the former has a brother (]) in the League and appears in a flashback sequence, and the latter's connections to Wilhelmina Murray do not go unnoticed. Holmes is still believed by the public to be deceased following the events of '']''. Moore has noted that he felt these two seminal characters would overwhelm the rest of the cast. According to The New Traveler's Almanac Mina meets Sherlock Holmes in 1904 as an elderly beekeeper. She also comments that he is "more likeable and warm than Mycroft".
{{bquote|The planet of the imagination is as old as we are. It has been humanity's constant companion with all of its fictional locations, like ] and the gods, and since we first came down from the trees, basically. It seems very important, otherwise, we wouldn't have it.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tantimedh |first1=Adi |title=Alan Moore: Inside "The Black Dossier" |url=https://www.cbr.com/alan-moore-inside-the-black-dossier/ |website=CBR |access-date=9 June 2020 |date=14 November 2007}}</ref>}}


==Publisher change==
== Second press run on issue 5 ==
{{More sources|section|date=February 2021}}
Moore's longstanding, outspoken criticism of ] (stemming in large part from what he perceives as mistreatment at their hands over the rights to '']'') made his position with DC-owned subsidiary ] (of which ''LoEG'' publisher ] is an ]) tenuous from the start. Moore's initial agreement was with WildStorm owner ], who sold his studio to DC after dealing with Moore, but before any of the ABC projects were published. Moore agreed to honor his contracts with Lee, but made it clear that he wished to continue to have no dealings with DC directly.


The fifth issue of the first volume contained an authentic vintage advertisement for a ] with the brand name Marvel Douche. The entire initial print run was destroyed and reprinted because the publisher felt that this could be perceived as an attack on ], DC's main competition.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Johnston |first1=Rich |title=MOORE SLAMS V FOR VENDETTA MOVIE, PULLS LoEG FROM DC COMICS |url=https://www.cbr.com/291190-2/ |website=CBR |access-date=9 June 2020 |date=23 May 2005}}</ref>
Issue #5 of Volume one contained an authentic vintage advertisement for a Marvel-brand douche. Marvel Comics is DC's chief rival within the comics industry and Moore had had a public dispute with Marvel, his former employer. This ad caused DC executive Paul Levitz to order the entire print run destroyed and reprinted with the offending advertisement edited. Some copies of the pulped print run escaped destruction and are the rarest modern comic books in existence.<ref></ref> It is estimated that fewer than 100 copies of this book exist, and none were actually circulated.


{{See also|Recalled comics#The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, vol. 1, .235{{!}}Recalled comics § ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'', vol. 1, #5}}
In a later title, Moore creates a "Miracle Douche Recall" headline on a newspaper, which is not only a reference to the furor, but is also a reference to the Marvelman, when Marvel Comics had previously forced Marvelman, which was written by Alan Moore, to change its name to Miracleman, despite Marvelman having been around for 40 years.


After several additional complaints over DC interference, Moore decided to wind up his ABC projects, intending to only continue with ''League'' (the only title he, with O'Neill, actually owned). He subsequently took offense at inaccurate comments made by the producer of the ] of his '']'', which stated that the author—who had distanced himself completely from film adaptations of his work, particularly after '']''—had commented favorably on a draft of the script. Moore requested that someone involved with the film's production company—and DC Comics parent company, ]—officially retract the comments and apologize. He also claims that his lack of support from DC regarding a ] related to the film adaptation of ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' was instrumental in his departure.
== Future works ==
] and ] from ''The Black Dossier''.]]
Alan Moore has announced his intentions to write the adventures of other leagues in different historical eras. One group of the heroes is seen in a portrait dated 1787 in the League's headquarters in the first volume of the comic. The group includes an elderly ], dark-caped ], the ] and his wife (Sir Percival and Lady Margeurite Blakeny), ], and ].


When no such apology was forthcoming, both Moore and O'Neill decided to withdraw future volumes of the ''League'' from DC in protest. Since the duo was still working on the '']'' at the time, it was agreed that it would become the last ''League'' project published by DC/WildStorm, with subsequent projects published jointly by ] and ] in the US and UK respectively, who published both ''],'' and the '']'', as graphic novella trilogies. Top Shelf and Knockabout later released '']'' first as a six-issue limited series. Reprints of ''Volumes I-II'' and the ''Dossier'' were published by ] until its shutdown in January 2020.
Another "Alternative League" is shown in the form of a sketch drawn by O'Neill titled "Les Hommes Mystérieux", showing an ensemble of French heroes and anti-heroes like the Vernian ], ], ], and the lesser-known ]. It is mentioned in the back-up Almanac that both groups will eventually fight each other.


==World of the ''League''==
Moore departed from ], including its subsidiaries ] and ], as a result of a dispute with the filmmaker over an incorrect allegation that Moore had approved of the film version of another of his comic book works, '']'', and failed to retract the comment or apologize. As a result, Moore has confirmed that any future installments of ''League'' stories will be published by ] and ].
Volume II has an extensive appendix, most of which is filled with an imaginary travelers' account of the alternate universe the ''League'' is set in, called ''The New Traveler's Almanac''. This Almanac provides background information&nbsp;— much of which is taken from the pre-existing literary works or mythology and may be difficult to fully appreciate without an esoteric knowledge of literature. It shows the plot of the comic to be just a small section of a world inhabited by what appears to be the entirety of all fiction ever created.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ganguly |first1=Srijani |title=''The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen'': 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Alan Moore Series |url=https://www.cbr.com/league-extraordinary-gentlemen-trivia-facts-alan-moore-series/ |website=] |date=December 17, 2020}}</ref>


====The Black Dossier==== ==History of the League==
{{Main|History of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen}}
]
Moore's work includes references to previous leagues and suggests there will be others subsequently. In much the same way that the ''New Traveller's Almanac'', an appendix to the trade paperback collection of ''The League Vol. 2'', detailed much of the geography of the League's world, the third volume, ''The Black Dossier'', set out an extensive history of the world of the League and each of its various incarnations, threading together hundreds of disparate works of fiction into a cohesive timeline.
{{main|The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier}}


==Awards and recognition==
The next published installment of the story will be called "The Black Dossier" (referred to as "The Dark Dossier" during early announcements of its existence), named for a fictional book the plot revolves around.
''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' won the 1999 UK ] for Best New Comic (International).


Volume I won the 2000 ].
{{cquote|England in the mid-1950s is not the same as it was. The Powers That Be have instituted some changes. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have been disbanded and disavowed, and the country is under the control of an iron-fisted regime. Now, after many years, the still youthful Mina Murray and a rejuvenated Allan Quatermain return in search of some answers — answers that can only be found in a book buried deep in the vaults of their old headquarters — a book that holds the key to the hidden history of the League throughout the ages: The Black Dossier. As Allan and Mina delve into the details of their precursors, some dating back centuries, they must elude their dangerous pursuers who are hell-bent on retrieving the lost manuscript... and ending the League once and for all. <ref name="Black Dossier solicit">{{cite web | title=The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier (solicitation) | work=Graphic Novels: Wildstorm | url=http://www.dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=5977 | accessdate=2007-03-06 }}</ref>}}


Volume II was nominated for the 2003 award, but lost to '']''. Volume II received the 2003 ] for Best Finite Series/Limited Series. '']'' listed Volume II as the 9th best comic of 2003.<ref>. Time.com. Retrieved on 2011-05-30.</ref> It was included in the 2005 edition of ''The Year's Best Graphic Novels, Comics, & Manga''. ''Time'' also listed ''Black Dossier'' as the second-best comic of 2007.<ref>Grossman, Lev. (2007-12-09) ;. Time.com. Retrieved on 2011-05-30.</ref>
====Volume III: Century====
]
{{main|The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century}}


==Influence==
The third volume will be a 216-page epic spanning almost a hundred years and entitled Century. Divided into three 72-page chapters, each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliff-hanger delays between episodes, it will take place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in the current twenty-first century.
===Music===
The steampunk band ] was inspired by this comic.


On "75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)" off the '']'' album, ] refers to ] as "gentlemen of an extraordinary league".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pcu6dbTb00| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211114/5pcu6dbTb00| archive-date=2021-11-14 | url-status=live|title=The Roots – 75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)|last=TheRootsVEVO|date=21 November 2009|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
Chapter one is set against a backdrop of London, 1910, twelve years after the failed Martian invasion and nine years since England put a man upon the moon. With Halley's Comet passing overhead, the nation prepares for the coronation of King George V, and far away on his South Atlantic Island, the science-pirate Captain Nemo is dying. In the bowels of the British Museum, ] the ghost-finder is plagued by visions of a shadowy occult order who are attempting to create something called a Moonchild, while on London's dockside the most notorious serial murderer of the previous century has returned to carry on his grisly trade. Working for Mycroft Holmes' British Intelligence alongside a rejuvenated Allan Quartermain, the reformed thief Anthony Raffles and the eternal warrior Orlando, Miss Murray is drawn into a brutal opera acted out upon the waterfront by players that include the furiously angry ] and the charismatic butcher known as ]. In actual fact Chapter One revolves around the song ''Pirate Jenny'' (Seeräuberjenny) from ]'s ]. Characters in this chapter will burst into song at various points in the narrative. Moore has written new lyrics for ''Mack the Knife'', ''Pirate Jenny'', ''What Keeps Mankind Alive'' and ''Mack's Plea From The Gallows''.<ref name="Winter, Andrew">{{cite news
| last = Winter
| first = Andrew
| coauthors = Moore, Alan
| title = Northampton's Finest: Alan Moore Interview
| work = Tripwire Annual 2007
| pages =12-17
| language = English
| publisher = Tripwire Publishing
| date = ]}}</ref>


===Books===
Chapter two takes place almost sixty years later in the psychedelic daze of Swinging London during 1968, a place where Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice, and where different underworlds are starting to overlap dangerously to an accompaniment of sit-ins and sitars. The vicious gangster bosses of London's East End find themselves brought into contact with a counter-culture underground of mystical and medicated flower-children, or amoral pop-stars on the edge of psychological disintegration and developing a taste for Satanism. Alerted to a threat concerning the same magic order that she and her colleagues were investigating during 1910, a thoroughly modern Mina Murray and her dwindling league of comrades attempt to navigate the perilous rapids of London's hippy and criminal subculture, as well as the twilight world of its occultists. Starting to buckle from the pressures of the twentieth century and the weight of their own endless lives, Mina and her companions must nevertheless prevent the making of a Moonchild that might well turn out to be the ].


] cited ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' as one of the influences for his award-winning short story "]".<ref>Introduction to '']''</ref>
In chapter three, the narrative draws to its cataclysmic close in London 2008. The magical child whose ominous coming has been foretold for the past hundred years has now been born and has grown up to claim his dreadful heritage. His promised aeon of unending terror can commence, the world can now be ended starting with North London, and there is no League, extraordinary or otherwise, that now stands in his way. The bitter, intractable war of attrition in ] crawls bloodily to its fifth year, away in ] a ] terrorist with a now-nuclear-armed submarine wages a ] against ] that might push the whole world into atomic holocaust, and in a London ] there's a patient who insists that she has all the answers. This volume is set to be released in 2008.<ref></ref>


===Comics===
====Tales of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen====
] has cited ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' as an inspiration for his comic '']''.<ref>. Warrenellis.com (2006-07-16). Retrieved on 2011-05-30.</ref>
After volume three Alan Moore said that he would like to write some special, one shot stories that focus upon the personal adventures of the characters. ''"...me and Kevin would probably like to get on with some individual stories, some Tales of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that could focus upon, say, one character. Orlando is a very tempting character to do a one-off special based upon, especially after you see the way that we've treated him/her in The Dossier."'' <ref></ref> It will have three separate stories in it, the first two will focus on a single character, whereas the third will detail something that Mina did in the 1960s.<ref name="Winter, Andrew">{{cite news
| last = Winter
| first = Andrew
| coauthors = Moore, Alan
| title = Northampton's Finest: Alan Moore Interview
| work = Tripwire Annual 2007
| pages =12-17
| language = English
| publisher = Tripwire Publishing
| date = ]}}</ref>


The comic '']'' by science-fiction writer ] has been regarded by critics as the French reply to ''The League''.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407090104/http://www.l-atalante.com/catalogue/flambant_9/la_brigade_chimerique_-_l-integrale/48/762/serge_lehman_fabrice_colin__gess/revue.html |date=2014-04-07 }}</ref> It uses proto-superhumans and supervillains from European pulp literature of the early twentieth century, but in a whole different perspective as Lehman is not mainly focused on English literature (as Moore does), mixes those real fictional characters equally with real prominent historical figures and builds a crepuscular alternate history story whose aim is to explain on a historical and psychoanalytical level why all European super-heroes disappeared from popular culture and European collective memory with ].
==The world of the ''League''==
{{main|The world of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen}}


==Annotations==
Volume two has an extensive appendix, most of which is filled with an imaginary traveller's account of the ] the ''League'' is set in, called ''The New Traveller's Almanac''. This Almanac is noteworthy in that it provides a huge amount of information (46 pages) of background information - all of which is taken from pre-existing literary works or mythology, a large majority of which is difficult to read or at least appreciate without an esoteric knowledge of literature. It shows the plot of the comic to be just a small section of a world inhabited by what appears to be the entirety of fiction.
] has produced a series of annotations for each volume which are available online and have also been expanded into book form:
* {{cite book |title=Heroes & Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen |publisher=] |year=2003 |isbn=1-932265-04-X}}
** ''Heroes & Monsters'' (UK) (], 2006), {{ISBN|1-84576-316-5}}
* ''A Blazing World: The Unofficial Companion to the Second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' (], 2004) {{ISBN|1-932265-10-4}}
** ''A Blazing World'' (UK) (], 2006) {{ISBN|1-84576-317-3}}
* ''Impossible Territories: An Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Black Dossier'' (], 2008) {{ISBN|1-932265-24-4}}


==In other media==
Many of the places described in the appendices seem to be drawn from ] and Gianni Guadalupi's '']'' (1980), though Moore adds numerous places not covered there.
===Film===
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen appear in a ] film, consisting of Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, an original Invisible Man named Rodney Skinner, Dr. Jekyll and Edward Hyde, ], and ].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Popoca |first1=Manny |title=The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Reboot Movie Could Be Groundbreaking |url=https://popculthq.com/2015/05/28/the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-reboot-movie-could-be-groundbreaking/?shared=email&msg=fail |website=Pop Cult HQ |access-date=May 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200522204715/https://popculthq.com/2015/05/28/the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-reboot-movie-could-be-groundbreaking/?shared=email&msg=fail |archive-date=May 22, 2020 |date=May 28, 2015}}</ref>


In May 2015, 20th Century Fox announced that a reboot is being developed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tracking-board.com/tb-exclusive-fox-enters-development-on-a-reboot-of-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen/|title={TB EXCLUSIVE} Fox Enters Development on "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" Reboot – The Tracking Board|work=The Tracking Board|date=26 May 2015 }}</ref> ] said that the reboot will be a female-centric film.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://collider.com/league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-reboot-female-centric/|title='League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Reboot to Be Female-Centric|website=Collider|last=Goldberg|first=Matt|date=August 13, 2015}}</ref> As of May 2022, the film is on track by 20th Century Studios, scheduled to stream on ], with ] writing and Don Murphy, who produced the 2003 film, will return as a producer alongside ] and ] of ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-reboot-in-the-works-at-twentieth-hulu-1235148573/|title='League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Reboot in the Works at 20th Century Studios, Hulu|website=The Hollywood Reporter|last=Kit|first=Borys|date=May 17, 2022}}</ref>
=== History of the League ===
Moore's work includes references to previous leagues and suggests there will be others subsequently. According to the ''New Traveller's Almanac'', an appendix to the trade paperback collection of ''The League Vol. 2'', the earliest incarnation of the League was known as "Prospero's Men".


=====Prospero's Men===== ===TV series===
In 2013, ] was ordering a pilot for the television version of ''LoEG'' with ] serving as writer and executive producer. ] would also executive produce. Neither Moore nor O'Neill are producers on the series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/alan-moores-league-extraordinary-gentlemen-fox-582372|title=Alan Moore's 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Gets Put Pilot Order at Fox|website=]|date=9 July 2013 }}</ref> It had also been reported that the pilot episode would still be broadcast, even if Fox opted not to ] the series.<ref>Bibel, Sara (July 9, 2013). {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713094827/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/07/09/fox-orders-the-league-of-extraordinary-genltlemen-pilot/191103/ |date=2013-07-13}}, ]. Retrieved July 10, 2013.</ref>
* ], the Duke of Milan, the sorcerer protagonist of ]'s 1611 play '']''.
* ], Prospero's malformed, treacherous servant, also from ''The Tempest''.
* ], a sprite and air spirit, bound to serve Prospero, also from ''The Tempest''.
* Christian, a pilgrim Everyman, protagonist of ]'s 1678 novel '']''.
* Captain ], a British explorer and discoverer of the Floating Island called Scoti Moria or Summer Island, President of the Council of the Society of Owe-Much, and the central character from ]'s 1673 book ''The Floating Island'' (published under the pseudonym Frank Careless).


===Interviews===
This league collapsed in 1690 when Christian found the "heavenly country" that he was seeking, and thus left this world. Allegedly, Prospero later followed him, as hinted in the ''Almanac''. Alan Moore said in an interview that he will detail the founding of this league in ''The Black Dossier''.<ref></ref>
The DVD release of '']'' contains an interview with the artist ] that involves the collaboration with ], ''League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century'', and his involvement with censorship.


==See also==
=====The Pirates' Conference=====
* ]
There was at some point in the 18th century a gathering of pirates. First mentioned in the ''Almanac'', the details of this gathering were never stated. The pirate ], who gathered this group together, was affiliated with the later league assembled by ].
* ]'s ]

* ]'s '']'' novels
* ] also known as Dr. Christopher Syn, and the Scarecrow.
* ]
* ]. The brutal yet strangely paternal pirate from ]'s '']''.
* ], rumoured to be the greatest buccaneer of them all, from ''Captain Blood'' by ].
* ] and his yellow bunkmate. The ] pirate first appeared in ''Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor'' by ].
* ], the amateur pirate who claimed his name was enough to strike fear into the heart of any sea-faring captain, but was in fact taking credit for work done by his Cabin Boy and fellow league Member '''Tom'''. From Eagle Comics and many animated TV shows.
* ], archenemy of ] who lost his hand to a ], from ''Peter Pan'' by ].
* Captain Pysse-Gumms (Pissgums) from ] and many animated TV shows.
*Two unidentified pirates.

=====Gulliver's League=====
The second league was formed by Lemuel Gulliver and secretly gathered in Montague House, London. They are seen in a picture of the group, dated 1787, shown in Vol. I #2.

* An elderly ], the far-flung protagonist from the 1726 novel '']'' by ], seen in the portrait with one of the famous miniature sheep at his feet.
* The Reverend ], also known as the pirate Captain Clegg, and later known as the Scarecrow, the ] turned pirate turned smuggler in the '']'' novels (1915-1944) of ].
* Mr. and Mrs. Percy Blakeney from the '']'' novels of ] published in 1905, set in late 1792. Though most assume that this 'Lady Blakeney' is the same character as Marguerite, Sir Percy's wife in ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'', this grouping takes place several years before the setting of Orczy's novel. As Sir Percy and Marguerite had been married nearly a year at the start of the first novel, this puts the identity of Sir Percy's wife in LOEG into dispute.
* ], the hero of the '']'' novels (1827-1841) of ], the most famous of which is '']''. In Cooper's novels he is variously called ''Deerslayer'', ''Hawkeye'' and ''Pathfinder'' as well as several other names.
* ], the eponymous heroine of the 1749 erotic novel ''Fanny Hill'' by ].

One of the stories in ''The Black Dossier'' involves this league.<ref>
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=====Speculative early 19th Century League=====
The League of Leagues website <ref></ref>has speculated that the portraits of the people behind the main 19th Century League on the cover of Volume 1 are an earlier past 19th Century League, made up of characters active in their source material around the 1870s. The picture in which this supposed League is portrayed is inside the League's headquarters in the British Museum. This picture also includes the group portrait of the late 18th Century discovered in the story of Vol. 1. Also in this picture is the actual character Count Allaminstakeo (a mummy), sleeping, as well as a portrait of him.

* ] from ''Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours'' ('']''; Book, 1872) by ]
* Sir Francis Varney from '']'' (] serial, 1847) by ].
* Count Allaminstakeo from "Some Words with a Mummy" by ].
* Sapathwa (a.k.a. the Blue Dwarf) from ''The Blue Dwarf'' by Lady Esther Hope (a.k.a. Percy B. St. John)
* ] from '']'' by ].
* Jack Harkaway from the Jack Harkaway Series by Bracebridge Hemyng.

=====The late 19th Century League (Wilhelmina's league)=====
The Victorian ''League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' is led by ] (of ]'s 1897 novel '']''), recruited for Military Intelligence by one Mr. Campion Bond (who is likely an ancestor of ]'s ]). They meet in the museum that was built on the remains of Montague House.

* ], of ]'s 1897 novel '']''.
* ], the Indian submariner from ]'s 1870 novels '']'', '']'', and ''Journey Through the Impossible''.
* ], the elephant hunter and African explorer of ]'s 1885 novel '']'' and its various sequels.
* ] and ] from ]'s 1886 short story '']''.
* ], also known as ], from the 1897 novel by ]. (Moore gave Griffin his first name, that of murderer ]).

This league collapsed during the closing days of the Martian invasion when Campion Bond cut his losses and abandoned the now fractured League, after Griffin turned traitor, which started a series of events that led to the deaths of Dr. Jekyll and his alter ego Mr. Hyde.

=====The early 20th Century League (Wilhelmina's 2nd league)=====
The Almanac hints that another League was led by ], founded after the Victorian league, which she had assembled, collapsed. It was presumably set before the events of ''The Black Dossier'', probably still answering to Campion Bond and meeting in the museum’s secret vault. They still work for Mycroft Holmes' British Intelligence. This League will appear on the third volume.<ref></ref>

* ], of ]'s 1897 novel '']''.
* ], a rejuvenated Allan Quatermain from ]'s 1885 novel '']'' and its various sequels.
* ], the sex-changing immortal from many works, but drawn most closely from ]'s '']''.
* ], reformed thief from ] stories.
* ], the occult detective from ''Carnacki the Ghost-Finder'' by ].

], the palaeontologist from ] and its sequels by ], is mentioned in the almanac as an occasional consultant to Mina's secondly-assembled League. ], the great naturalist and veterinarian first appeared in ]'s ''The Story of Doctor Dolittle'' and its sequels, is described in the almanac as an associate of Challenger.

Other characters who will appear in the third volume include ], charismatic butcher, and Pirate Jenny, furiously angry pirate, both from '']''. It's not known whether they are villains, secondary characters, associates or members of the League.

=====The 1950s League=====
By 1958 the League was disbanded by the government and those members who survived broke into British Intelligence, stole the Black Dossier, and then tried to escape the country while being pursued by a trio of deadly British agents, who are trying to get the Dossier back. One is a character named Jimmy, who carries the cigarette case that Campion Bond had. He's actually ], the British spy created by ] for the novel '']'' and its sequels, but due to copyright issues, his name cannot be directly referenced.

Additionally Mina and A.J. team up with Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, from the novel '']'', by ], against the villainous ] in America. Alan Moore also stated in an Exit Interview by Bill Baker that the first black character in the League will appear in ''The Black Dossier.'' Moore also admits that this character will be a controversial one.

=====The Failed 1950s League=====
There is also mention of a failed surrogate 1950s League that will appear in ''The Black Dossier''.

=====The 1960s League=====
Volume Three will have a story set in 1968 with a League led by Wilhelmina Murray who are summoned to investigate a strange cult operating in London's East End and prevent them from making a ] that might well turn out to be the ]. The Top Shelf description suggests 'long term effects' relating to the League's disbanding during the 1950s.<ref></ref>

=====The 2008 League=====
The solicitation for the final issue of Volume Three indicates that, by 2008, the League has gone nearly extinct, except for an apparent member unwillingly trapped in a London mental institution. The Moonchild will have grown to power by this time. Mention has also been made of a Sikh terrorist with a nuclear armed submarine and an ongoing, "intractable" war in ]. <ref></ref>

===Rival leagues===
These copycat leagues were apparently set up by foreign governments such as France and Germany as opponents to the true league, due to the rivalry between these countries and Great Britain that had lasted for centuries, as Alan Moore confirmed in an interview with ''Wizard'' #181.
=====Les Hommes Mystérieux (The Mysterious Men)=====
]
Les Hommes Mystérieux are the french equivalent of the League similarly composed of "questionable" or criminal individuals. This group was active during the time of Mina's second league. The clash between the two groups was mentioned in the "The New Traveller's Almanac".

* ], a master thief, from the books written by ].
* ], an insane genius who creates a flying machine, from the books '']'' and '']'', by ].
* ], a superhero created by ] (it was stated that he was shot by "A.J." - who could either be Allan Junior, Anthony J. Raffles or a yet unnamed character - though his condition after that is not made clear in "The New Traveller's Almanac").
* ], a criminal mastermind created by ] and ].

=====Die Zwielichthelden (The Twilight Heroes)=====
Moore has stated that there will be a German version of the League, known as Die Zwielichthelden, or "The Twilight Heroes". Though he has not revealed any other information about this group, there is one German character mentioned in League Vol. 1: Der Luftkapitan Mors, a domino masked air-pirate.

== Appendices ==
=== Collections ===
* '''''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'', Volume I''', collects vol 1 #1-6
** hardcover: ISBN 1-56389-665-6
** paperback: ISBN 1-56389-858-6
**] (deluxe hardcover): ISBN 1-4012-0052-4, including Moore's original scripts and additional artwork by O'Neill
* '''''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'', Volume II''', collects vol 2 #1-6
** hardcover: ISBN 1-4012-0117-2
** paperback: ISBN 1-4012-0118-0
** Absolute edition (deluxe hardcover): ISBN 1-4012-0611-5, including Moore's original scripts and additional artwork by O'Neill
* '''''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Black Dossier'''''
** hardcover: ISBN 1-4012-0306-X (early 2007)
** Absolute edition (deluxe hardcover): ISBN 1-4012-0751-0 (June, 2007)

=== Source works ===
==== Principal characters ====
*'']'' by ]
*'']'' and sequels, by ]
*'']'' by ]
*''The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu'' and sequels, by ]
*'']'' and '']'' by ]
*'']'' and '']'' by ]
*The ] stories by ]
*'']'' by ]

==== Secondary characters ====
* '']'', '']'', and '']'' by ]
* '']'' and its sequels in the ] novels of ]
* '']'' by ]
* '']'' by ]
* '']'' by ]
* '']'' by ]
* "]" by ]
* '']'' by ]
* '']'' by ]

====Similar pastiches====
*One of the first modern works to combine characters from earlier fictions is the 1949 novel '']'', written by ]; every character in this novel is lifted from the pages of works dating back to '']'' and other ancient tales. It is unclear whether Moore drew any inspiration from Myers' book.
*''Tarzan Alive'', ''Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life,'' ''The Other Log of Phileas Fogg'', and the rest of the ] stories by ] present various heroes and villains of adventure fiction as being part of the same family tree.
*'']'' and sequels, by ]; the original book is set in London at about the same time as ''The League of Extraordinary Gentleman'' and features several characters in common.
*''The League of Heroes'' and sequels, by ] ISBN 1-932983-44-9
*'']'' and sequels, edited by ] ISBN 1-932983-36-8
*'']'' by ] depicts several iconic characters coming together in a battle between good and evil.
*The comic novels of ] concern a world inside fiction; and feature fictional characters, e.g ] and ] as some of the key protagonists.
*]'s comic '']'' offers a "secret history" of the 20th century which integrates well known characters from pulp fiction and comics into a cohesive world. Characters in the public domain, such as ] are present as themselves, while characters still under copyright are represented by close analogues.

=== Film ===
* A ] of the first volume was released in 2003, also by the name '']''. The film adaptation was not well received by fans or critics however, and was disowned by Moore and O'Neill. ] has since openly refused to acknowledge any adaptation of his work including ] and ].


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*''A Blazing World: The Unofficial Companion to the Second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' (paperback, 240 pages, ], 2004, ISBN 1932265104, ], 2006, ISBN 1845763173)
*''Impossible Territories: An Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Black Dossier'' (paperback, 304 pages, ], forthcoming August 2007, ISBN 1932265244)


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Comic book series by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill Not to be confused with The League of Gentlemen. For the film adaptation, see The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film).
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Cover of Volume I
Publication information
PublisherABC/WildStorm/DC Comics (1999–2007)
Top Shelf and Knockabout Comics (2009–2019)
GenreAlternate history
Steampunk
Horror
Science fiction
Metafiction
Superhero
Publication date1999–2019
No. of issues21, plus one original graphic novel
Main character(s)Mina Murray
Allan Quatermain
Hawley Griffin
Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde
Captain Nemo
Orlando
Creative team
Written byAlan Moore
Artist(s)Kevin O'Neill
Letterer(s)Bill Oakley

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LoEG) is a multi-genre, cross-over comic book series co-created by writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill which began in 1999. The comic book spans four volumes, an original graphic novel, and a spin-off trilogy of graphic novellas. Volume I and Volume II (released as two six-issue limited series) and the graphic novel Black Dossier were published by the America's Best Comics imprint of DC Comics. After leaving the America's Best imprint, the series moved to Top Shelf and Knockabout Comics, which published Volume III: Century (released as three graphic novellas), the Nemo Trilogy (a spin-off of three graphic novellas centered on the character of Nemo), and Volume IV: The Tempest (originally released as a six-issue limited series). According to Moore, the concept behind the series was initially a "Justice League of Victorian England" but he quickly developed it as an opportunity to merge elements from numerous works of fiction into one world, in a matter akin to the shared fictional universes of Marvel and DC Comics.

Elements of Volume I were used in a loosely adapted feature film of the same name, released in 2003 and starring Sean Connery in his last live-action role.

Plot

Main article: List of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen titles

The year is 1898, and Mina Murray is recruited by Campion Bond on behalf of British Intelligence and asked to assemble a league of other extraordinary individuals to protect the interests of the Empire: Captain Nemo, Allan Quatermain, Dr. Jekyll, and Hawley Griffin the Invisible Man. They help stop a gang war between Fu Manchu and Professor Moriarty, nemesis of Sherlock Holmes. Following this they take part in the events of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. Two members of the League (Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain) achieve immortality, and are next seen in an adventure in 1958. This follows events that take place after the fall of the Big Brother government from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four.

Following this, Mina and Allan team up with fellow immortal Orlando and are shown in an adventure which spans a century, from 1910 to 2009, concerning a plot by evil magicians to create a Moonchild that might well turn out to be the Antichrist. During this adventure Captain Nemo's daughter Janni Dakkar is introduced, and some of her adventures are chronicled subsequently. The final volume of the series ends with an immortal Mina escaping an Earth dominated by magical entities and various alien invasions to live out her immortal life on a space station with Orlando, Jack Nemo (great-grandson of Captain Nemo) and a clone of Mr. Hyde.

Characters

All characters within the series are either pre-existing characters, or are in some way related to one.

Main article: List of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen characters

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Nemo trilogy

Overview of the series

In a 1997 interview with Andy Diggle for the now defunct Comics World website, Alan Moore gave the title of the work as "The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk". Moore changed the name to Gentlemen to better reflect the Victorian era. Simon Bisley was originally going to be the artist for the series before being replaced by Kevin O'Neill.

The Victorian setting allowed Moore and O'Neill to insert "in-jokes" and cameos from many works of Victorian fiction, while also making contemporary references and jibes. The works bear numerous steampunk influences. In the first issue, for example, there is a half-finished bridge to link Britain and France, referencing problems constructing the Channel Tunnel.

Most characters in the series, from the dominatrix schoolmistress Rosa Coote to minor characters such as Inspector Dick Donovan, are either established characters from existing works of fiction or ancestors of the same, to the extent that individuals depicted in crowd scenes in Volume I have been said (both by Moore, and in annotations by Jess Nevins) to be visually designed as the ancestors of the cast of the British soap opera EastEnders. This has lent the series considerable popularity with fans of esoteric Victoriana, who have delighted in attempting to place every character who makes an appearance.

Moore said:

The planet of the imagination is as old as we are. It has been humanity's constant companion with all of its fictional locations, like Mount Olympus and the gods, and since we first came down from the trees, basically. It seems very important, otherwise, we wouldn't have it.

Publisher change

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Moore's longstanding, outspoken criticism of DC Comics (stemming in large part from what he perceives as mistreatment at their hands over the rights to Watchmen) made his position with DC-owned subsidiary Wildstorm Comics (of which LoEG publisher America's Best Comics is an imprint) tenuous from the start. Moore's initial agreement was with WildStorm owner Jim Lee, who sold his studio to DC after dealing with Moore, but before any of the ABC projects were published. Moore agreed to honor his contracts with Lee, but made it clear that he wished to continue to have no dealings with DC directly.

The fifth issue of the first volume contained an authentic vintage advertisement for a douche with the brand name Marvel Douche. The entire initial print run was destroyed and reprinted because the publisher felt that this could be perceived as an attack on Marvel Comics, DC's main competition.

See also: Recalled comics § The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, vol. 1, #5

After several additional complaints over DC interference, Moore decided to wind up his ABC projects, intending to only continue with League (the only title he, with O'Neill, actually owned). He subsequently took offense at inaccurate comments made by the producer of the film version of his V for Vendetta, which stated that the author—who had distanced himself completely from film adaptations of his work, particularly after LXG—had commented favorably on a draft of the script. Moore requested that someone involved with the film's production company—and DC Comics parent company, Warner Bros.—officially retract the comments and apologize. He also claims that his lack of support from DC regarding a minor lawsuit related to the film adaptation of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was instrumental in his departure.

When no such apology was forthcoming, both Moore and O'Neill decided to withdraw future volumes of the League from DC in protest. Since the duo was still working on the Black Dossier at the time, it was agreed that it would become the last League project published by DC/WildStorm, with subsequent projects published jointly by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics in the US and UK respectively, who published both Volume III: Century, and the Nemo Trilogy, as graphic novella trilogies. Top Shelf and Knockabout later released Volume IV: The Tempest first as a six-issue limited series. Reprints of Volumes I-II and the Dossier were published by Vertigo until its shutdown in January 2020.

World of the League

Volume II has an extensive appendix, most of which is filled with an imaginary travelers' account of the alternate universe the League is set in, called The New Traveler's Almanac. This Almanac provides background information — much of which is taken from the pre-existing literary works or mythology and may be difficult to fully appreciate without an esoteric knowledge of literature. It shows the plot of the comic to be just a small section of a world inhabited by what appears to be the entirety of all fiction ever created.

History of the League

Main article: History of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Moore's work includes references to previous leagues and suggests there will be others subsequently. In much the same way that the New Traveller's Almanac, an appendix to the trade paperback collection of The League Vol. 2, detailed much of the geography of the League's world, the third volume, The Black Dossier, set out an extensive history of the world of the League and each of its various incarnations, threading together hundreds of disparate works of fiction into a cohesive timeline.

Awards and recognition

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen won the 1999 UK National Comics Award for Best New Comic (International).

Volume I won the 2000 Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative.

Volume II was nominated for the 2003 award, but lost to The Sandman: Endless Nights. Volume II received the 2003 Eisner Award for Best Finite Series/Limited Series. Time Magazine listed Volume II as the 9th best comic of 2003. It was included in the 2005 edition of The Year's Best Graphic Novels, Comics, & Manga. Time also listed Black Dossier as the second-best comic of 2007.

Influence

Music

The steampunk band Unextraordinary Gentlemen was inspired by this comic.

On "75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)" off the Rising Down album, Black Thought refers to The Roots as "gentlemen of an extraordinary league".

Books

Neil Gaiman cited The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as one of the influences for his award-winning short story "A Study in Emerald".

Comics

Warren Ellis has cited The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as an inspiration for his comic Ignition City.

The comic The Chimera Brigade by science-fiction writer Serge Lehman has been regarded by critics as the French reply to The League. It uses proto-superhumans and supervillains from European pulp literature of the early twentieth century, but in a whole different perspective as Lehman is not mainly focused on English literature (as Moore does), mixes those real fictional characters equally with real prominent historical figures and builds a crepuscular alternate history story whose aim is to explain on a historical and psychoanalytical level why all European super-heroes disappeared from popular culture and European collective memory with World War II.

Annotations

Jess Nevins has produced a series of annotations for each volume which are available online and have also been expanded into book form:

In other media

Film

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen appear in a self-titled film, consisting of Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, an original Invisible Man named Rodney Skinner, Dr. Jekyll and Edward Hyde, Dorian Gray, and Tom Sawyer.

In May 2015, 20th Century Fox announced that a reboot is being developed. John Davis said that the reboot will be a female-centric film. As of May 2022, the film is on track by 20th Century Studios, scheduled to stream on Hulu, with Justin Haythe writing and Don Murphy, who produced the 2003 film, will return as a producer alongside Susan Montford and Erwin Stoff of 3 Arts Entertainment.

TV series

In 2013, Fox was ordering a pilot for the television version of LoEG with Michael Green serving as writer and executive producer. Erwin Stoff would also executive produce. Neither Moore nor O'Neill are producers on the series. It had also been reported that the pilot episode would still be broadcast, even if Fox opted not to green-light the series.

Interviews

The DVD release of The Mindscape of Alan Moore contains an interview with the artist Kevin O'Neill that involves the collaboration with Alan Moore, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, and his involvement with censorship.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Jess Nevins' Annotations".
  2. Tantimedh, Adi (14 November 2007). "Alan Moore: Inside "The Black Dossier"". CBR. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  3. Johnston, Rich (23 May 2005). "MOORE SLAMS V FOR VENDETTA MOVIE, PULLS LoEG FROM DC COMICS". CBR. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  4. Ganguly, Srijani (December 17, 2020). "The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Alan Moore Series". CBR.
  5. 2003 Best and Worst: Comics. Time.com. Retrieved on 2011-05-30.
  6. Grossman, Lev. (2007-12-09) Grossman, Lev; Top 10 Graphic Novels;. Time.com. Retrieved on 2011-05-30.
  7. TheRootsVEVO (21 November 2009). "The Roots – 75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)". Archived from the original on 2021-11-14 – via YouTube.
  8. Introduction to Fragile Things
  9. Ignition City workblog: July 15. Warrenellis.com (2006-07-16). Retrieved on 2011-05-30.
  10. L-atalante.com Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine
  11. Popoca, Manny (May 28, 2015). "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Reboot Movie Could Be Groundbreaking". Pop Cult HQ. Archived from the original on May 22, 2020. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  12. "{TB EXCLUSIVE} Fox Enters Development on "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" Reboot – The Tracking Board". The Tracking Board. 26 May 2015.
  13. Goldberg, Matt (August 13, 2015). "'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Reboot to Be Female-Centric". Collider.
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  15. "Alan Moore's 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Gets Put Pilot Order at Fox". The Hollywood Reporter. 9 July 2013.
  16. Bibel, Sara (July 9, 2013). FOX Orders 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Pilot Archived 2013-07-13 at the Wayback Machine, TV by the Numbers. Retrieved July 10, 2013.

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