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| | Notes on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #1 |
 | | Cover: Jerry Boyajian notes that the title of the book may be an allusion to the 1960 British film The League of Gentlemen, based on a 1958 novel of the same name by John Boland. |
| | Auguste Dupin was the creation of Edgar Allen Poe; he was the brilliant French amateur detective, and appeared in "Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," and "The Purloined Letter." Poe, in the character of Dupin, is credited with establishing, to the greatest degree, the genre of detective fiction. |
| | Thomas Edison, of course, was the brilliant inventor and self-promoter who, with his associates, developed and created, in 1879, carbonized cotton thread as a filament for conducting electricity; this eventually led to the development of the electronic vacuum tube, and was directly responsible for electric lamps and lighting. |
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