num_pages: 416
description: Proving that mainstream comics could be infused with past literary/cultural ideals and still be bestsellers, the America's Best Comics imprint took the dilapidated superhero genre and created three vastly entertaining hybrids with Tom Strong, Promethea and Top Ten. Now, a stunning coup de grace is delivered with this masterful pairing of Victorian adventure fiction's greatest characters and the old war-horse of the super-group. With the stunning The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it would be no exaggeration to say that Alan Moore has produced a near-perfect piece of adventure fiction that is clever, literate, rich with excitement and hard to put down.It's 1898 and at the behest of M, the mysterious head of the secret Service, Campion Bond is dispatched to procure the services of Miss Mina Murray (nee Harker), adventurer Allan Quartermain, "Science-Pirate" Captain Nemo, Henry Jekyll (and his monstrous alter ego) and Hawley Griffin (a.k.a. the Invisible Man). Together, they must comb
language: English
title: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Absolute Edition: 1
titlecomplete: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Absolute Edition: 1
characters: Mycroft Holmes, Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Pollyanna Glad, Mina Harker, Hawley Griffin, Dr. Fu Manchu, Dr Henry Jekyll, Dupin
genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Steampunk, Graphic Novels Comics, Comics, Comic Book, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 53759
places: Cairo, London, England, Paris, Edmonton, England
series: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, La Ligue des Gentlemen Extraordinaires
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best Illustrated Narrative, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Prix du Festival d'Angoulême
category: Alph-art du meilleur scenario, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Gran Guinigi
category: Best comic series
publisher: America's Best Comics