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League of extraordinary gentlemen volume 1 set in victorian times league of extraordinary gentlemen volume 2 closely follows the previous volume the black dossier the year 1958 league of extraordinary gentlemen volume 3. The story takes place in 1898 in a fictional world where. The league of extraordinary gentlemen, volume 2 by alan. Century starts in 1910, passes by the 1970s, and ends in 2009 the black dossier is more of a standalone story though.
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In this world, the famous stories of english literature plus mark twain really happened, and the queen puts together a superteam to try to stop an attack on venice. As overblown mindless summer fare goes, it has some very minor merit, but as an adaptation of a stylish and clever comic book filled with literary characters and sherlockian overtones, it fails entirely, and does so quite. For fans who have been with moore and oneill through the league of extraordinary gentlemen, vol. Mina and griffin question quong lee a storyteller from books by thomas burke, who reveals that the doctor is indeed operating within the area. As if that werent enough, theyve been assembled together in 1900 by queen victoria as a team of evilfighting heroes.
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