I Gotta Get This Book-

[Street Worm]

In his classic ?biographies? of fictional characters (Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life), Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author Philip Jos? Farmer introduced the Wold Newton family, a collection of heroes and villains whose family-tree includes Sherlock Holmes, Fu Manchu, Philip Marlowe, and James Bond.

In books, stories, and essays he expanded the concept even further, adding more branches to the Wold Newton family-tree.

MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOS? FARMER?S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE collects for the first time those rarely-seen essays. Expanding the family even farther are contributions from Farmer?s successors?scholars, writers, and pop-culture historians?who bring even more fictional characters into the fold.

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The Wold Newton Universe

[Slytherin Snape]

Is that where "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" came from? 'Cause it sounds very similar.... yes? [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]

[Street Worm]

Originally posted by ?SNAPE?:
Is that where "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" came from? 'Cause it sounds very similar.... yes? [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Very similar, indeed, but I'm pretty sure The League came straight from the demented mind of Alan Moore..............

But later chapters of Wold have tied into various Leagues~

I believe Phil's Tarzan Alive bio was first published in '72 followed by Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life in '73-
which (I think) are the first mentions of Wold Newton