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Wold Newton Universe

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Representative Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (1973) by Philip José Farmer
The Wold Newton family is a literary concept derived from a form of crossover fiction developed by the American science fiction writer Philip José Farmer. In real life a meteorite, called the Wold Cottage meteorite, fell near Wold Newton, Yorkshire, England, on December 13, 1795. Farmer suggested in two fictional biographies, Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke (1972) and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (1973) that this meteorite caused genetic mutations in the occupants of two passing coaches due to ionization. Many of their descendants were thus endowed with extremely high intelligence and strength, as well as an exceptional capacity and drive to perform good or, as the case may be, evil deeds. The progeny of these travellers are purported to have been the real-life originals of fictionalised characters, both heroic and villainous, over the last few hundred years… ~ Wold Newton family – Wikipedia
Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (1973) by Philip José Farmer | James Bama
Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (1973) by Philip José Farmer | James Bama

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A. J. Raffles

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Arthur J. Raffles (usually called A. J. Raffles) is a fictional character created in 1898 by E. W. Hornung, brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Raffles is, in many ways, […]
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Arthur J. Raffles (usually called A. J. Raffles) is a fictional character created in 1898 by E. W. Hornung, brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Raffles is, in many ways, […]
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Abraham Van Helsing

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In the novel Dracula, Van Helsing is called in by his former student, Dr. John Seward, to assist with the mysterious illness of Lucy Westenra. Van Helsing’s friendship with Seward is based in part upon […]
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In the novel Dracula, Van Helsing is called in by his former student, Dr. John Seward, to assist with the mysterious illness of Lucy Westenra. Van Helsing’s friendship with Seward is based in part upon […]
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Allan Quatermain

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Allan Quatermain is an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader living in South Africa. He is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard’s 1885 novel King Solomon’s Mines, its one sequel Allan Quatermain (1887), […]
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Allan Quatermain is an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader living in South Africa. He is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard’s 1885 novel King Solomon’s Mines, its one sequel Allan Quatermain (1887), […]
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Ann Darrow

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When filmmaker Carl Denham, actress Ann Darrow, and crewmate Jack Driscoll traveled to Skull Island to shoot a film, Ann was kidnapped by natives and given as sacrifice to King Kong. Kong carried Ann into […]
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When filmmaker Carl Denham, actress Ann Darrow, and crewmate Jack Driscoll traveled to Skull Island to shoot a film, Ann was kidnapped by natives and given as sacrifice to King Kong. Kong carried Ann into […]
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Aouda

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Aouda, a character in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, is an Indian princess accompanied by Phileas Fogg and Passepartout. The daughter of a Bombay Parsi merchant, she was married against her […]
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Aouda, a character in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, is an Indian princess accompanied by Phileas Fogg and Passepartout. The daughter of a Bombay Parsi merchant, she was married against her […]
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Aramis

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René d’Herblay, alias Aramis, is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845), and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and the other two musketeers, […]
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René d’Herblay, alias Aramis, is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845), and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and the other two musketeers, […]
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Arsene Lupin

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Arsène Lupin is a gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc. In “The Arrest of Arsène Lupin” (“L’Arrestation d’Arsène Lupin”), published in Je sais tout, No. 6, 15 […]
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Arsène Lupin is a gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc. In “The Arrest of Arsène Lupin” (“L’Arrestation d’Arsène Lupin”), published in Je sais tout, No. 6, 15 […]
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Athos

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Athos, Count de la Fère, is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845) and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. He is a highly fictionalized […]
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Athos, Count de la Fère, is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845) and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. He is a highly fictionalized […]
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Bomba the Jungle Boy

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Bomba the Jungle Boy is a series of American boys’ adventure books produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Roy Rockwood. and published by Cupples and Leon in the first half of the 20th […]
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Bomba the Jungle Boy is a series of American boys’ adventure books produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Roy Rockwood. and published by Cupples and Leon in the first half of the 20th […]
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Bulldog Drummond

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Bulldog Drummond was a wealthy former World War I officer of His Majesty’s Royal Loamshire Regiment, who became a private detective after returning from the war. He places an advertisement in the local newspaper: “Demobililsed […]
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Bulldog Drummond was a wealthy former World War I officer of His Majesty’s Royal Loamshire Regiment, who became a private detective after returning from the war. He places an advertisement in the local newspaper: “Demobililsed […]
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C. Auguste Dupin

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Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin is a fictional character created by Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin made his first appearance in Poe’s 1841 short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, widely considered the first detective […]
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Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin is a fictional character created by Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin made his first appearance in Poe’s 1841 short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, widely considered the first detective […]
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Captain Blood

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Peter Blood was an Irish physician in the late 17th Century who served as a soldier, sailor, and eventually, one of the most feared pirate captains in the Caribbean. After attending the wounded during a […]
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Peter Blood was an Irish physician in the late 17th Century who served as a soldier, sailor, and eventually, one of the most feared pirate captains in the Caribbean. After attending the wounded during a […]
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Conan the Barbarian

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Conan is a Cimmerian. It is known that the Cimmerians were based on the Celts or Gaels. He was born on a battlefield and is the son of a village blacksmith. Conan matured quickly as […]
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Conan is a Cimmerian. It is known that the Cimmerians were based on the Celts or Gaels. He was born on a battlefield and is the son of a village blacksmith. Conan matured quickly as […]
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Count of Monte Cristo

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Edmond Dantès is the title character and protagonist of the Alexandre Dumas 1844 adventure novel The Count of Monte Cristo. Within the story’s narrative, Dantès is an intelligent, honest, and loving man who turns bitter […]
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Edmond Dantès is the title character and protagonist of the Alexandre Dumas 1844 adventure novel The Count of Monte Cristo. Within the story’s narrative, Dantès is an intelligent, honest, and loving man who turns bitter […]
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Cyrano de Bergerac

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Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French dramatist and duelist. In fictional works about his life he is featured with an overly large nose, which people would […]
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Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French dramatist and duelist. In fictional works about his life he is featured with an overly large nose, which people would […]
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D’Artagnan

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D’Artagnan is initially portrayed by Dumas as a hotheaded youth, who tries to engage the Comte de Rochefort and the Three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis in single combat. He quickly becomes friends with the […]
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D’Artagnan is initially portrayed by Dumas as a hotheaded youth, who tries to engage the Comte de Rochefort and the Three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis in single combat. He quickly becomes friends with the […]
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Doc Savage

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A team of scientists assembled by his father deliberately trained his mind and body to near-superhuman abilities almost from birth, giving him great strength and endurance, a photographic memory, a mastery of the martial arts, […]
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A team of scientists assembled by his father deliberately trained his mind and body to near-superhuman abilities almost from birth, giving him great strength and endurance, a photographic memory, a mastery of the martial arts, […]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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The dual title character is a doctor who has covered up a secret life full of cruel deeds. Henry Jekyll feels as if he is constantly battling within himself, between what is good and what […]
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The dual title character is a doctor who has covered up a secret life full of cruel deeds. Henry Jekyll feels as if he is constantly battling within himself, between what is good and what […]
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Dr. Syn

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Dr. Syn is the kindly vicar of the little town of Dymchurch in England. Syn seems like a pleasant fellow, but he is a man with a sinister past. At one time he was the […]
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Dr. Syn is the kindly vicar of the little town of Dymchurch in England. Syn seems like a pleasant fellow, but he is a man with a sinister past. At one time he was the […]
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Dr. Watson

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John H. Watson, known as Dr. Watson, along with Sherlock Holmes, first appeared in the novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). Part one of A Study in Scarlet is subtitled “Being a reprint from the […]
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John H. Watson, known as Dr. Watson, along with Sherlock Holmes, first appeared in the novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). Part one of A Study in Scarlet is subtitled “Being a reprint from the […]
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Dracula

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Count Dracula is an undead, centuries-old vampire, and a Transylvanian nobleman who claims to be a Székely descended from Attila the Hun. He inhabits a decaying castle in the Carpathian Mountains near the Borgo Pass. […]
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Count Dracula is an undead, centuries-old vampire, and a Transylvanian nobleman who claims to be a Székely descended from Attila the Hun. He inhabits a decaying castle in the Carpathian Mountains near the Borgo Pass. […]
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Elizabeth Bennet

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Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist in the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. She is often referred to as Eliza or Lizzy by her friends and family. Elizabeth is the second child in […]
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Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist in the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. She is often referred to as Eliza or Lizzy by her friends and family. Elizabeth is the second child in […]
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Fagin

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Fagin is the secondary antagonist in Charles Dickens’s 1838 novel Oliver Twist. Originally depicted by Dickens as explicitly Jewish, in the preface to the novel, he is alleged to be a “crafty old Jew” and […]
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Fagin is the secondary antagonist in Charles Dickens’s 1838 novel Oliver Twist. Originally depicted by Dickens as explicitly Jewish, in the preface to the novel, he is alleged to be a “crafty old Jew” and […]
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Fantômas

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Fantômas is a highly elusive criminal mastermind and one of the earliest costumed villains. He was tracked by his great nemesis, Inspector Juve, but each time Juve thought he had the crime master, Fantômas managed […]
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Fantômas is a highly elusive criminal mastermind and one of the earliest costumed villains. He was tracked by his great nemesis, Inspector Juve, but each time Juve thought he had the crime master, Fantômas managed […]
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Francis Hardant

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After traveling to Tibet, Francis Hardant, a young physician and explorer, becomes entangled in a perilous confrontation with Dr. Natas, a sinister mastermind. Natas, who has uncovered the secret of creating gold through nuclear fusion, […]
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After traveling to Tibet, Francis Hardant, a young physician and explorer, becomes entangled in a perilous confrontation with Dr. Natas, a sinister mastermind. Natas, who has uncovered the secret of creating gold through nuclear fusion, […]
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Frankenstein’s Monster

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Victor Frankenstein builds the creature over a two-year period in the attic of his boarding house in Ingolstadt after discovering a scientific principle which allows him to create life from non-living matter. Frankenstein is disgusted […]
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Victor Frankenstein builds the creature over a two-year period in the attic of his boarding house in Ingolstadt after discovering a scientific principle which allows him to create life from non-living matter. Frankenstein is disgusted […]
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Fu Manchu

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Dr. Fu Manchu was a Chinese criminal mastermind who preferred arcane means rather than guns or explosives. He employed numerous thugs, robbers, and secret societies, such as the Si-Fan. Fu Manchu armed his forces with […]
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Dr. Fu Manchu was a Chinese criminal mastermind who preferred arcane means rather than guns or explosives. He employed numerous thugs, robbers, and secret societies, such as the Si-Fan. Fu Manchu armed his forces with […]
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G-8

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G-8 was a heroic aviator and spy during World War I. He starred in his own title G-8 and His Battle Aces. While not as dramatic a pulp character as Doc Savage or the Shadow, […]
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G-8 was a heroic aviator and spy during World War I. He starred in his own title G-8 and His Battle Aces. While not as dramatic a pulp character as Doc Savage or the Shadow, […]
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General Zaroff

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General Zaroff is the main antagonist of the 1924 short story “The Most Dangerous Game”. A big game hunter from Russia, Zaroff fled to his own private island, called Ship-Trap Island, after the Russian Revolution, […]
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General Zaroff is the main antagonist of the 1924 short story “The Most Dangerous Game”. A big game hunter from Russia, Zaroff fled to his own private island, called Ship-Trap Island, after the Russian Revolution, […]
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Gladiator (Hugo Danner)

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Gladiator is a science fiction novel by American author Philip Wylie, first published in 1930. The story concerns a scientist who invents an “alkaline free-radical” serum to “improve” humankind by granting the proportionate strength of […]
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Gladiator is a science fiction novel by American author Philip Wylie, first published in 1930. The story concerns a scientist who invents an “alkaline free-radical” serum to “improve” humankind by granting the proportionate strength of […]
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Green Lama

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Jethro Dumont, a rich resident of New York City, spent ten years in Tibet studying to be a lama (a Buddhist guru), learning many mystical secrets in the process. He returned to the United States […]
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Jethro Dumont, a rich resident of New York City, spent ten years in Tibet studying to be a lama (a Buddhist guru), learning many mystical secrets in the process. He returned to the United States […]
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Habits Noirs

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The Habits Noirs, or the Black Coats, are a powerful international crime syndicate.  They began as the Camorra in southern Italy and the Veste Nere in Corsica, the Brothers of Mercy, The Companions of Silence, […]
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The Habits Noirs, or the Black Coats, are a powerful international crime syndicate.  They began as the Camorra in southern Italy and the Veste Nere in Corsica, the Brothers of Mercy, The Companions of Silence, […]
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Ivanhoe

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Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disinherited by his father Cedric of Rotherwood for supporting the Norman King Richard, The Lionheart, and for falling in love with the Lady Rowena, Cedric’s ward and a descendant of the […]
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Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disinherited by his father Cedric of Rotherwood for supporting the Norman King Richard, The Lionheart, and for falling in love with the Lady Rowena, Cedric’s ward and a descendant of the […]
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John Carter, Warlord of Mars

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John Carter was a Virginian-born Captain in the Confederate Armed Forces. After the war, his money and officer’s commission was useless, so he set out to rebuild his life as a prospector in Arizona. He […]
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John Carter was a Virginian-born Captain in the Confederate Armed Forces. After the war, his money and officer’s commission was useless, so he set out to rebuild his life as a prospector in Arizona. He […]
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Judex

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After his father was killed, Judex set out on a crusade against crime, assisted by his mother, his younger brother, circus folk and redeemed criminals. He was skilled in fighting, was a master of disguise […]
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After his father was killed, Judex set out on a crusade against crime, assisted by his mother, his younger brother, circus folk and redeemed criminals. He was skilled in fighting, was a master of disguise […]
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Korak, Son of Tarzan

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Korak the Killer first appeared in the original Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. He was introduced as an infant in the non-Tarzan novel The Eternal Lover (later retitled The Eternal Savage), in which the […]
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Korak the Killer first appeared in the original Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. He was introduced as an infant in the non-Tarzan novel The Eternal Lover (later retitled The Eternal Savage), in which the […]
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Kull of Atlantis

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Kull of Atlantis or Kull the Conqueror is a fictional character created by writer Robert E. Howard. Kull was born in pre-cataclysmic Atlantis c. 100,000 BC, depicted as inhabited at the time by barbarian tribes. […]
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Kull of Atlantis or Kull the Conqueror is a fictional character created by writer Robert E. Howard. Kull was born in pre-cataclysmic Atlantis c. 100,000 BC, depicted as inhabited at the time by barbarian tribes. […]
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La of Opar

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La is a character in Edgar Rice Burroughs’s series of Tarzan novels, the queen and high priestess of Opar, a lost city located deep in the jungles of Africa. La is first encountered in The […]
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La is a character in Edgar Rice Burroughs’s series of Tarzan novels, the queen and high priestess of Opar, a lost city located deep in the jungles of Africa. La is first encountered in The […]
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Lady of the Si-Fan

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Fah Lo Suee is a character who was introduced in the series of novels Dr. Fu Manchu by the English author Sax Rohmer (1883-1959). She is the daughter of Dr. Fu Manchu and an unnamed […]
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Fah Lo Suee is a character who was introduced in the series of novels Dr. Fu Manchu by the English author Sax Rohmer (1883-1959). She is the daughter of Dr. Fu Manchu and an unnamed […]
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Long John Silver

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Long John Silver is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the novel Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson. Long John Silver is a cunning and opportunistic pirate who was quartermaster under the […]
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Long John Silver is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the novel Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson. Long John Silver is a cunning and opportunistic pirate who was quartermaster under the […]
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Lord Peter Wimsey

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Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey DSO (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh). […]
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Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey DSO (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh). […]
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Maciste

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Maciste is one of the oldest recurring characters of cinema, created by Gabriele d’Annunzio and Giovanni Pastrone. He is featured throughout the history of the cinema of Italy from the 1910s to the mid-1960s. He […]
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Maciste is one of the oldest recurring characters of cinema, created by Gabriele d’Annunzio and Giovanni Pastrone. He is featured throughout the history of the cinema of Italy from the 1910s to the mid-1960s. He […]
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Mangani

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Mangani is the name of a fictional species of great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and of the invented language used by these apes. In the invented language, Mangani (meaning “great-ape”) […]
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Mangani is the name of a fictional species of great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and of the invented language used by these apes. In the invented language, Mangani (meaning “great-ape”) […]
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Monk (Doc Savage)

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Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Blodgett “Monk” Mayfair, an industrial chemist. Monk got his nickname from his simian build, notably his long arms, and his covering of red hair. He is in a constant state of “friendly […]
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Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Blodgett “Monk” Mayfair, an industrial chemist. Monk got his nickname from his simian build, notably his long arms, and his covering of red hair. He is in a constant state of “friendly […]
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Monsieur Lecoq

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Monsieur Lecoq was an agent of the Sureté (the French equivalent of Scotland Yard). He was a brilliant detective, capable of making incredible deductions from the smallest of clues. He was methodical and scientific, a […]
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Monsieur Lecoq was an agent of the Sureté (the French equivalent of Scotland Yard). He was a brilliant detective, capable of making incredible deductions from the smallest of clues. He was methodical and scientific, a […]
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Mowgli

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Mowgli is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling’s short story “In the Rukh” (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then became the most prominent […]
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Mowgli is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling’s short story “In the Rukh” (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then became the most prominent […]
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Natty Bumppo

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Nathaniel “Natty” Bumppo is a fictional character and the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper’s pentalogy of novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Natty Bumppo, the child of white parents, grew up among Delaware Indians and […]
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Nathaniel “Natty” Bumppo is a fictional character and the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper’s pentalogy of novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Natty Bumppo, the child of white parents, grew up among Delaware Indians and […]
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Nosferatu

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Count Orlok is a fictional character portrayed by Max Schreck in the silent movie Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens. He was based on Bram Stoker’s character, Count Dracula. In Nosferatu, Count Orlok is a vampire […]
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Count Orlok is a fictional character portrayed by Max Schreck in the silent movie Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens. He was based on Bram Stoker’s character, Count Dracula. In Nosferatu, Count Orlok is a vampire […]
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Oparians

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The Oparians live in Opar, a lost colony of Atlantis located deep in the jungles of Africa, in which incredible riches have been stockpiled down through the ages. The city’s population exhibits extreme sexual dimorphism […]
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The Oparians live in Opar, a lost colony of Atlantis located deep in the jungles of Africa, in which incredible riches have been stockpiled down through the ages. The city’s population exhibits extreme sexual dimorphism […]
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Pat Savage (Doc Savage)

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Doc’s cousin Patricia “Pat” Savage, who has Doc’s bronze skin, golden eyes, and bronze hair, also is along for many of the adventures, despite Doc’s best efforts to keep her away from danger. Pat chafes […]
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Doc’s cousin Patricia “Pat” Savage, who has Doc’s bronze skin, golden eyes, and bronze hair, also is along for many of the adventures, despite Doc’s best efforts to keep her away from danger. Pat chafes […]
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Peri

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Peri is an Indian of the Goitacá people, who once saved the life of Cecilia, the daughter of Dom Antônio, to whose household he belongs. Peri, who deserted his tribe and family, is the hero […]
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Peri is an Indian of the Goitacá people, who once saved the life of Cecilia, the daughter of Dom Antônio, to whose household he belongs. Peri, who deserted his tribe and family, is the hero […]
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Phantom of the Opera

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Erik (also known as The Phantom of the Opera, commonly referred to as The Phantom) is the title character from Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, best known to English speakers as The […]
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Erik (also known as The Phantom of the Opera, commonly referred to as The Phantom) is the title character from Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, best known to English speakers as The […]
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Phileas Fogg

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Phileas Fogg is the protagonist in the 1872 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Inspirations for the character were the American entrepreneur George Francis Train and American writer and adventurer William Perry […]
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Phileas Fogg is the protagonist in the 1872 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Inspirations for the character were the American entrepreneur George Francis Train and American writer and adventurer William Perry […]
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Porthos

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Porthos, Baron du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845), and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and […]
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Porthos, Baron du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845), and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and […]
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Professor Challenger

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George Edward Challenger, FRS, MD, DSc, was appointed to an assistant position at the British Museum in 1892 and was promoted within a year to assistant keeper in the Comparative Anthropology Department. He held a […]
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George Edward Challenger, FRS, MD, DSc, was appointed to an assistant position at the British Museum in 1892 and was promoted within a year to assistant keeper in the Comparative Anthropology Department. He held a […]
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Professor Moriarty

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In 1893’s “The Adventure of the Final Problem” (set in 1891), consulting detective Sherlock Holmes reveals to his friend and biographer Doctor Watson that for years now he has suspected many seemingly isolated crimes to […]
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In 1893’s “The Adventure of the Final Problem” (set in 1891), consulting detective Sherlock Holmes reveals to his friend and biographer Doctor Watson that for years now he has suspected many seemingly isolated crimes to […]
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Randolph Carter

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Randolph Carter is an antiquarian and one-time student of the fictional Miskatonic University. Based on clues from various stories, he was probably born around 1874 and grew up in and around Boston. At the age […]
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Randolph Carter is an antiquarian and one-time student of the fictional Miskatonic University. Based on clues from various stories, he was probably born around 1874 and grew up in and around Boston. At the age […]
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Richard Hannay

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The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of tricky situations. In late May 1914, […]
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The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of tricky situations. In late May 1914, […]
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Rima

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Rima, or her true name Riolama, was a small (4′-6”), demure, and dark-haired 17-year-old girl who wore a smock made of spiderwebs and could communicate with birds, earning her the nickname “Bird Girl.” She lived […]
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Rima, or her true name Riolama, was a small (4′-6”), demure, and dark-haired 17-year-old girl who wore a smock made of spiderwebs and could communicate with birds, earning her the nickname “Bird Girl.” She lived […]
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Robin Hood (Legend)

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Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions of the […]
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Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions of the […]
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Sam Spade

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Sam Spade is the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon. As Hammett says about him, “Spade has no original. He is a dream man in the sense that he is what most […]
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Sam Spade is the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon. As Hammett says about him, “Spade has no original. He is a dream man in the sense that he is what most […]
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Saturnin Farandoul

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The adventure began with a shipwreck, during which Saturnin, aged 4 months and 7 days, in his cradle, washed up on an island populated by monkeys. Adopted, he became as agile as them. At 11, […]
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The adventure began with a shipwreck, during which Saturnin, aged 4 months and 7 days, in his cradle, washed up on an island populated by monkeys. Adopted, he became as agile as them. At 11, […]
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Scarlet Pimpernel

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Sir Percy Blakeney is a wealthy English baronet who rescues individuals sentenced to death by the guillotine. He soon reveals himself to be a master of disguise, an imaginative planner, a formidable swordsman and a […]
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Sir Percy Blakeney is a wealthy English baronet who rescues individuals sentenced to death by the guillotine. He soon reveals himself to be a master of disguise, an imaginative planner, a formidable swordsman and a […]
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She Who Must Be Obeyed

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Ayesha is the title character of She, subtitled A History of Adventure, a novel by H. Rider Haggard. Ayesha is called Hiya by the native Amahagger, or “She” (She-who-must-be-obeyed). Ayesha was born over 2,000 years […]
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Ayesha is the title character of She, subtitled A History of Adventure, a novel by H. Rider Haggard. Ayesha is called Hiya by the native Amahagger, or “She” (She-who-must-be-obeyed). Ayesha was born over 2,000 years […]
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Sherlock Holmes

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Sherlock Holmes is a “consulting detective” in stories by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he […]
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Sherlock Holmes is a “consulting detective” in stories by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he […]
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Solomon Kane

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Solomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp-era writer Robert E. Howard. A late-16th-to-early-17th century Puritan, Solomon Kane is a somber-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to […]
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Solomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp-era writer Robert E. Howard. A late-16th-to-early-17th century Puritan, Solomon Kane is a somber-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to […]
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Spider (Popular)

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The Spider was millionaire playboy Richard Wentworth, who had served as a major in World War I, and was living in New York City unaffected by the financial deprivations of the Great Depression. The Spider […]
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The Spider was millionaire playboy Richard Wentworth, who had served as a major in World War I, and was living in New York City unaffected by the financial deprivations of the Great Depression. The Spider […]
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Superman (Bill Dunn)

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Professor Ernest Smalley was a mad scientist who specialized in chemistry. Needing test subjects for his experiments, the Professor randomly chose a homeless man named Bill Dunn from a Depression-era bread line, telling him that […]
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Professor Ernest Smalley was a mad scientist who specialized in chemistry. Needing test subjects for his experiments, the Professor randomly chose a homeless man named Bill Dunn from a Depression-era bread line, telling him that […]
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Tartu

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Tartu is a boy of approximately 10 years old adopted by Tarzan and Jane Porter. Tarzan faces hunters led by Schroeder and Rene, who invaded the jungle to capture animals and explore a lost city. […]
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Tartu is a boy of approximately 10 years old adopted by Tarzan and Jane Porter. Tarzan faces hunters led by Schroeder and Rene, who invaded the jungle to capture animals and explore a lost city. […]
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Tarzan

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Tarzan is the son of a British lord and lady who were marooned on the coast of Africa by mutineers. When Tarzan was an infant, his mother died, and his father was killed by Kerchak, […]
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Tarzan is the son of a British lord and lady who were marooned on the coast of Africa by mutineers. When Tarzan was an infant, his mother died, and his father was killed by Kerchak, […]
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Three Musketeers

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Set between 1625 and 1628, Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 The Three Musketeers recounts the adventures of a young man named d’Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d’Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to […]
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Set between 1625 and 1628, Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 The Three Musketeers recounts the adventures of a young man named d’Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d’Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to […]
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Time Traveler (H. G. Wells)

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In H. G. Wells’ 1895 science fiction novella The Time Machine, the protagonist is a Victorian English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. Similarly, with […]
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In H. G. Wells’ 1895 science fiction novella The Time Machine, the protagonist is a Victorian English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. Similarly, with […]
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Tintin (Ferenczi)

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Justin Blanchard, known as Tintin, the little Parisian, “the kid from Paris, the intrepid and pleasant newsboy,” is the hero of adventure and science fiction novels published beginning in 1911. Tintin has a little sister, […]
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Justin Blanchard, known as Tintin, the little Parisian, “the kid from Paris, the intrepid and pleasant newsboy,” is the hero of adventure and science fiction novels published beginning in 1911. Tintin has a little sister, […]
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Vampires

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A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved […]
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A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved […]
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Victor Frankenstein

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Victor Frankenstein is an Italian-Swiss scientist (born in Naples, Italy) who, after studying chemical processes and the decay of living things, gains an insight into the creation of life and gives life to his own […]
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Victor Frankenstein is an Italian-Swiss scientist (born in Naples, Italy) who, after studying chemical processes and the decay of living things, gains an insight into the creation of life and gives life to his own […]
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White Wolf

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Le Loup blanc (The White Wolf) is a French historical novel by Paul Féval, père, first published in France in 1843. The story takes place in Brittany in 1720 and 1740 and incorporates a real […]
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Le Loup blanc (The White Wolf) is a French historical novel by Paul Féval, père, first published in France in 1843. The story takes place in Brittany in 1720 and 1740 and incorporates a real […]
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Zigomar

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Zigomar was a masked crime lord and leader of a band of Romany thieves. Zigomar’s organization is named Z, and the group’s password is “Z is the life! Z is the death!” accompanied by a […]
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Zigomar was a masked crime lord and leader of a band of Romany thieves. Zigomar’s organization is named Z, and the group’s password is “Z is the life! Z is the death!” accompanied by a […]
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Zorro

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Zorro made his debut in “The Curse of Capistrano” in All-Story Weekly, serialized in five parts, from August 9, 1919 to September 6, 1919), by Johnston McCulley. In The Curse of Capistrano, Señor Zorro became […]
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Zorro made his debut in “The Curse of Capistrano” in All-Story Weekly, serialized in five parts, from August 9, 1919 to September 6, 1919), by Johnston McCulley. In The Curse of Capistrano, Señor Zorro became […]