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Other popular characters that Philip José Farmer concluded were members of the Wold Newton mutant family include: Solomon Kane; Captain Blood; The Scarlet PimpernelWe seek him here, we seek him there, / Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven Is he in hell? / That demmed, elusive Pimpernel. Sir Percy Blakeney (ch. 12) The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic adventure novel by Baroness Orczy. It was first pub; Harry Flashman; Sherlock Holmes's nemesis Professor MoriartyProfessor James Moriarty is a fictional character who is the best known antagonist of the detective Sherlock Holmes. Moriarty is a criminal mastermind described by Holmes as the " Napoleon of Crime". Eliot would later use the same phrase, in homage, to de; Phileas FoggPhileas Fogg is the main character in the 1872 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days''. Accompanied by his manservant Passepartout, he attempts to circumnavigate the late Victorian world in 80 days on a wager set by the Reform Club. The charac; The Time Traveler; Allan QuatermainAllan Quatermain is a fictional character, the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and its various sequels and prequels. In addition to Haggard's works, the character was placed by science fiction writer Philip Jose Farmer as a member o; Tarzan's son Korak; A.J. RafflesRaffles is a character created by E. Hornung, a brother-in-law to Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Holmes he is a " gentleman thief," living in the Albany Mansions, a very upscale addr; Professor ChallengerGeorge Edward Challenger better known as Professor Challenger is a character in a series of science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He was first introduced in the novel The Lost World which describes an expedition to a plateau in South America; Richard Hannay; Bulldog DrummondBulldog Drummond is a British fictional character created by "Sapper", a pseudonym of H. McNeile ( 1888- 1937), in imitation of the hard boiled noir-style detectives appearing in contemporary American fiction. The stories followed Captain Hugh "Bulldog" D; the evil Fu Manchu and his adversary, Sir Denis Nayland Smith; G-8; The Shadow; Sam Spade; Doc Savage's cousin Pat Savage, and one of his five assistants, Monk Mayfair; The Spider; Nero Wolfe; Mr. Moto; The Avenger; Philip Marlowe; James Bond; Lew Archer; and Travis McGee.
An earlier proponent of this sort of fiction was William S. Baring-Gould who wrote a fictional biography of Sherlock Holmes. In 1971 C. W. Scott-Giles, an expert in heraldry, published a history of Lord Peter Wimsey's family, going back to 1066 (but describing the loss of the family tree going back to Adam); the book is based on material from his correspondence with Dorothy L. Sayers, who wrote at least two of the family anecdotes in the book, one of them in medieval French.
A similar premise has subsequently been adopted by Alan Moore in his comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Warren Ellis's comic book series Planetary has a similar premise of fitting many different superhero, science fiction, and fantasy elements into the same universe. (Though for the most part, constrained by the needs of the story and copyright, Ellis does not use the originals but rather his own re-interpretations.)
The Wold Newton concept relies on judicious Krypto-Revisionism; the characters of the books and comics are treated as fictionalized, exaggerated versions of "real" people, and accounts that strain suspension of disbelief too much are dismissed as complete fabrication.