The bestial Edward Hyde, having already brutally raped and slain Griffin, physically attacked a Tripod on London Bridge, ripping off a leg and tearing his way into the 'cockpit' of the machine, where he killed and began to eat its 'pilot' until the other Tripods turned their heat rays upon him, killing him. By August 9th, the invaders ravaged the south of London before gathering at London Bridge, as the other bridges with access across the Thames were destroyed by the British military to prevent their use by the enemy. This effectively cut off all naval defenses to the besieged country. The alien advance was hindered by Captain Nemo's Nautilus at the Thames River until the Red Weed, an alien plant carried aboard the invaders' ships, overran the river, clogging the waterways and immobilizing the submarine and any other ships on the Thames. Griffin kept his promise to the aliens by providing them with stolen documents containing British Artillery positions, directly leading to the massacre of the British forces on August 6th. On the night before, Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man, had secretly made a pact with the invaders promising to help them in exchange for making him the co-ruler of Earth. The next day, British artillery and infantry regiments guarding the Horsell Commons crater were vaporized by "Martian" heat rays, after which the invaders utilized Tripods to proceed with their advance on London. The League was dispatched to investigate the landing and witnessed the brutal onset of "Martian" aggression on a gathered crowd of onlookers. The public understandably believed them to be Martians, and many flocked to see the aliens, unaware of the danger. The invaders first made landfall in Horsell, in the South of England, in the early morning of August 5th, 1898. The invaders' launches were observed by astronomers on Earth who misidentified them as active Martian volcanoes. They had studied the planet through "Glass Eggs" (Two-way visual surveillance devices), that had been sent to the third planet, specifically London, and which were used in observing their earthly adversaries. Due to these circumstances, in July 1898, the invaders were repelled and fled Mars in several cylinder-shaped refugee ships bound for Earth. The invaders were pushed back by a large Martian coalition led by John Carter and Gullivar Jones. The invasion of the red planet would prove a costly mistake. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation) and Doctor Moreau ( The Island of Doctor Moreau) among others.Īt some point in the 19th century, an unnamed alien race invaded Mars, coming into conflict with the native Martian civilizations. The comic also includes a variety of other characters including John Carter ( A Princess of Mars, etc.), Gullivar Jones ( Lieut. Wells' Martians (referred to in the comic as "Molluscs" due to the comic including other Martian species such as the Hither People, the Green Martians and the Sorns), with the group been summoned by M (now taken over by Sherlock Holmes' elder brother Mycroft Holmes) to find a way to defeat the invaders. Sent on a mission to recover a stolen supply of the gravity-defying substance Cavorite from the crime lord Fu Manchu, the group succeeded but later discovered that M is Sherlock Holmes' old nemesis Professor James Moriarty - with the group working together to successfully defeat him. Hyde ( The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) and Captain Nemo ( 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, The Mysterious Island, etc.) to form the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by a mysterious individual called 'M' and MI5 Agent Campion Bond (James Bond's Grandfather). Volume I saw the recruitment of Mina Harker ( Dracula), Allan Quartermain ( King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quartermain, etc.), Hawley Griffin ( The Invisible Man), Dr. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II is a 6-issue comic series published under "America's Best Comics" - with the story been illustrated by Kevin O'Neill ( Marshal Law, Nemesis the Warlock, etc.) and written by Alan Moore ( V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Batman: The Killing Joke, etc.)
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