FREE THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN BLACK DOSSIER PDF Alan Moore,Kevin O'Neill | 208 pages | 08 Mar 2012 | KNOCKABOUT COMICS | 9780861661770 | English | London, United Kingdom The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier by Alan Moore According to Alan Moore it is "a sort of ingenious sourcebook" which reveals the history of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen universe, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier over fiction and mythology from centuries back until the midth century. Black Dossier is split in two parts, moving to and fro between both throughout the book. One part is a comic story in which Mina Murray and Allan Quatermainnow immortal in a dystopic s Britain, steal the legendary Black Dossier from the British Secret Service and try to flee England with it, pursued by the country's three greatest spies. The other part consists of the actual content of the titular document; a series of non-comic pieces, taking the form of prose short stories, letters, maps, guidebooks, magazines and even a lost Shakespeare folio, that give more insight in the history of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the universe they exist in. Also included is a 'Tijuana Bible' and a 3-D section complete with custom glasses. Designer Bill Oakley, who had helped design the previous League books up to that point, died in the middle of Black Dossier' s development. The book is dedicated to his memory. Unlike earlier volumes, the comic book portions of Black Dossier are not set in the Victorian era; rather, they are set inafter the fall of the Big Brother government. The frame story sees Mina and Allan - now immortal after bathing in the fire of youth from She - on their quest to recover the Black Dossier, which contains the secret history of the now-disbanded League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Bond attempts to rape O'Quim, but she subdues him with a brick in her The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier, before her lover arrives. They believe that Murray and Quatermain are heading North. Billy Bunterthe caretaker and former student, reveals that many British spies were groomed at the school, and that Bob Cherry is Harry Lime. By coincidence, Bond, Night and Drummond are also attending the spaceport. Bond and Night share a moment of passion despite the violent warnings of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier protective Drummond, and the group accidentally stumble upon Murray and Quatermain. Murray and Quatermain escape via a prototype robot-piloted ship and parachute into Scotland, seeking a secluded castle in the countryside, only to be closely pursued by the spies. Murray and Quatermain reveal their identities to Drummond and reveal to him that Bond is a trecherous double-agent for the United States, that Dr. No was a The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier manufactured by the Americans and that Bond is the man who killed John Night. After they leave on a magical vessel, Drummond attempts to kill Bond but he is shot by Bond at point-blank range. Bond tells Night that Drummond was murdered by Murray and Quatermain. As Murray and Quatermain read the dossier, the contents of the dossier interrupt the narrative in different sections. Stories include. However, this was not ultimately included in the first editions of the book. Publishers claimed it would be in the Absolute Edition release, but was not included. It is assumed that DC Comics did The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier include the record due to concerns that the record was too similar to copyrighted material. In a release exclusive to the London-based comic book The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier Gosh Comicsthe vinyl record was included. The release is extremely rare, being limited to one copy per person, and sold exclusively in-store at Gosh in Soho, London. The book was not officially released outside the United States because of what DC perceived as "international copyright concerns and related issues", though the book has nonetheless become easily available in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. These incidents were instrumental in Alan Moore's decision to cut all his ties with DC Comics; also to blame were controversies involving falsely- alleged endorsement of the V for Vendetta film adaptation, which Moore in fact wanted nothing to do with, and dispute over the ownership rights of Watchmen. Alan Moore had famously been one of the comic book writers of the s who helped elevate DC Comics into public attention, popularizing the comic book Swamp Thing and co-creating V for Vendetta and Watchmenthe former two of which have been collected under DC's Vertigo imprint. This wiki. This wiki All wikis. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Categories :. Cancel Save. Universal Conquest Wiki. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier - Wikipedia At first glance, the book seems like a transition between the end of the second book and the next volume, which will be published by Top Shelf in The path to final publication for the book has not been a smooth one, as Alan explained at length with his customary dry humor and sense of frustration at the unnecessary interference it encountered. At that time, it was just after Kevin had finished the additional pages of Book Two. I remember talking to him on the phone and we were joking about how he was going to be out of work starting the following morning. And I was just so moved by the image of Kevin having to turn up at the local Job Centre to learn new skills that I thought, maybe I could think of some project that could gainfully occupy Kevin without requiring a huge amount of work. That turned out to be a stupid idea, because if it was going to be up to the standard that we were accustomed on 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,' then it was obviously going to require a huge The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier of work. This started to take off because we started to realize that we were practically handling a new form. It would be something that wouldn't be quite a comic, it wouldn't be quite a text with the other elements we were planning to include like the The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier single, the Tijuana Bible and the 3D section. It would start to be an unprecedented beast in many respects. We just started with the books and as it developed, we realized what a splendid thing it was turning into. It was at that point that it did provide a wonderful transition point to anything that we might want to do in the future. And when we decided that we were going to publish with Top Shelf, since I had previously given notice that if there was any unpleasantness such as, I don't know, the pulping of that issue of 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' with the Marvel vaginal douche, anything that even reminded me that I was being published by an off-shoot of DC Comics, then we would be withdrawing the book. And straight away, the business with 'V For Vendetta' came up. At this point, we said we would finish this book, because once we started something, we wouldn't dream of leaving it uncompleted. So we carried on work on the book. I finished it quite quickly, but it was still a couple of years' work for Kevin, because by this point it had grown into a very, very big project, something that is almost as large as the proceeding volumes of the League. The ensuing chaos pushed back the publication of the book for a year after its announced publication date. At that point, there began a year or so of petty interference and very irritating behaviour - Kevin was getting phone calls demanding that he hurry through the remainder of the pages, because it 'had to be out' by San Diego last year. Kevin was explaining that that wasn't the way he did things. Things were going to take as long as they were going to take. By this time I wasn't speaking to anybody at Wildstorm or DC other than necessary business phone calls that were very brief and to the point. But I believe it was somebody from the marketing department who was behaving very much like a kind of jilted girlfriend, who was saying, 'Well! Will you be drawing faster when you're being published by someone like [Top Shelf's] Chris Staros? Go to your whore! And Kevin explained that the work would take as long as it took, he was drawing it as quickly as possible, and when anybody had seen the final result, they would agree that it was much better than hurrying it and spoiling what I believe is, for Kevin at least, a masterpiece. Around about last Christmas, they were demanding that he fly out there, that the book could be published immediately if he flew out there. This was after we planned this spectacular 3-D section for the finale. We thought originally there was only one person who could accomplish this, let alone understand this, and that is, of course, Ray Zone. We'd approached Ray. He was very eager and interested in the project. And then there was a kind of baffling silence about how well the 3-D section was getting on. Because Kevin had done that earlier, the final bits of the thing, because he had figured it would take The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier certain amount of time to do the 3-D process.