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The League's members:

 

* Mina Murray: Formerly Mina Harker, she re-takes her maiden name following the events of Bram Stoker's ''[[Dracula (novel)|Dracula]]''; the reader has only her unsubstantiated word as to why she and her husband divorced. Her red scarf conceals a brutal set of slashing scars very unlike a traditional vampire's bite, because of Dracula's actually bat-like teeth. She was the first member recruited, and unequivocally the leader. Her position was decided by the teams first "M" {{spoiler|Professor Moriarity}} who believed her gender would prevent the men of the group from feeling a "territorial" desire for her position. Instead they all have deep seated misogynistic resentment.

* Dr. Jekyll: Or, more accurately, Mr. Hyde; as some 20 years of time have passed, he grew from his diminutive size as depicted in [[The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde|Robert Louis Stevenson's book]] into a powerful giant, and the [[Super Serum]] was no longer needed to bring him out. He's also a psychopath of the grandest type, and prone to every excess. Both Jekyll and especially Hyde have a soft spot for Mina, who is apparently the only person Hyde never wanted to hurt (this is because she does not hate him for what he is) <ref> Hyde is the ''evil'' side of Jekyll without any of his good qualities, and every person he meets doesn't know why, but immediately recognizes him as evil. He will never be loved or even accepted--but she has met [[Dracula|worse]]</ref>.

Volume 1 follows the tale of the league's formation, and a battle against the forces of the mysterious "Chinese Doctor" (actually Fu Manchu) and the machinations of Moriarty. In the second volume, the Martian invasion from ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' is explored, featuring appearances by Dr. Moreau and John Carter of Mars. The "Black Dossier," an elaborate side-story, features the titular Dossier as a [[Framing Device]] for [[Scrapbook Story|the history of all the different iterations of the League, from the one in Shakespeare's time through to World War II]], and brings the references to a [[Reference Overdosed|truly ridiculous level]]. The Black Dossier signalled a change in style for the comics; where the initial idea was "Justice League of Victorian England", the ambition evolved into creating a shared universe for ''all'' fictional places and characters. ''All of them''.

 

 

The second volume of Century, published July 2011, finds the league back in swinging London in 1969. The team is down to just Orlando, Mina and Allan, but they get a ride from the octogenarian Janni on the Nautilus. They must seek out and stop the cult founded by the late Oliver Haddo and prevent him from using popular musicians for dark purposes.

* [[Yellow Peril]]: Fu Manchu.

* [[You Are a Credit to Your Race]]: Invoked in one of the letter columns in regards to Nemo.

 

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