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THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN: CENTURY 1910 Writer Alan Moore and Artist Kevin O'Neill continue the League series with a complete new story. The third volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues, Century, is a 216-page epic spanning almost a hundred years. Divided into three 72-page chapters - this monumental tale takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in our own current twenty-first century. Drawing from the fiction, theatre, film and television culture of the twentieth century as artfully as the preceding volumes drew upon the literature of the nineteenth, this first installment of the League's adventures takes our familiar cast of characters ? plus several previously unfamiliar ? and propels them into a new age, 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, Carnacki 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 Pirate Jenny and the charismatic butcher known as Mac the Knife. This is the first chapter of the new story. 80 pages full colour paperback. isbn 9780861661602. 260 x 170mm (10 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches) _gsrx_vers_1608 (GS 9.5 (1608))