Lemuel Gulliver

"Lemuel Gulliver"

• Featured in :
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

• Links
  • The Annotated Gulliver's Travels

Biography

Lemuel Gulliver apprenticed to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London before becoming ship surgeon on the Swallow (commanded by Captain Abraham Pannel) for three years and a half, making voyages to the Levant, and some other parts. He returned home and took up practice in London where he married Mary Bates. When his practice started to fail he took to sea again and ended up on a number of strange lands, including the lands of the Lilliputians (pygmies), the Brobdingnags (giants), and the Houyhnhnms (an ultra-rational society of horses) who ruled over the cretin Yahoos (an uncivilized, humanlike race).

OBSERVATION

Volume 2 Issue 1 states in "The New Traveller's Alamanac" that Gulliver was the leader of his League, but we still don't know who they got their orders from (i.e. who was their version of Campion Bond?)

OBSERVATION

From Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, Chapter 8:

'I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own Country, and propagate the breed. And to feed them on board, I had a good bundle of hay, and a bag of corn'

OBSERVATION

A Lilliputian horse appears at Mina's feet on the hardcover edition of Volume I, this sugests that Gulliver and his team may have returned to Lilliput and collected some horses, since he didn't pick up any on the first journey. Which indeed is confirmed in the Almanac of V2 #5.

Sir Percy and Lady Blakeney

"Mr. & Mrs. P. Blakeny"

"...a married English couple called the Blakeneys..."

• Featured in :
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
• I Will Repay (1906)
• Elusive Pimpernel (1908)
• Eldorado (1913)
• Lord Tony's Wife (1917)
• League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1919)
• Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1922)
• Sir Percy Hits Back (1927)
• Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1929)
• Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1933)
• Sir Percy Leads the Band (1936)
• Mam'zelle Guillotine (1940)

Biography

Sir Percy Blakeney, known to late-Georgian British society as a fop more interested in his clothes than anything else, in fact, leads a double life as "the Scarlet Pimpernel," rescuer of aristocrats and innocents during the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution. His new bride is the French actress Marguerite St. Just, and he is pursued by his nemesis, French Republican agent Citizen Chauvelin.

• Links
  • Sir Percy's Place

Biography

When the infamous pirate Captain Clegg, decided that piracy was getting a little too risky, he settled down to a rather more respectable life as the vicar of Dymchurch (a coastal village on Romney Marsh in the county of Kent, Southern England). With his faithful church sexton and ex-pirate colleague Mr. Mipps, he formed a band of smugglers made up of 'The Men of the Marsh'. By day Dr. Syn was a respectable vicar, by night he was the 'Scarecrow', the much feared and admired head of the smugglers.

The Reverend Dr. Syn

(aka The Scarecrow)

"The Reverend Dr. Syn"

"...a mild-mannered clergyman from Kent..."

• Featured in :

• Doctor Syn On The High Seas
• Doctor Syn Returns
• The Further Adventures Of Doctor Syn
• The Courageous Exploits Of Doctor Syn
• The Amazing Quest Of Doctor Syn
• The Shadow Of Doctor Syn
• Doctor Syn

• Links

• Dr. Syn Site
• Drsyn.com
• Patrick McGoohan Movie

OBSERVATION

The apperance of Dr. Syn (The Scarecrow) in this picture seems to be patterned after the pulp character The Shadow, created by Walter B. Gibson, in particular, the crossed guns pose is common for the Shadow.

OBSERVATION

My copy of Doctor Syn which I purchased from Amazon.com is missing page 51, so I created the missing page here, in Word and pdf.

Fanny Hill

"Mistress Hill"

• Featured in :
• Fanny Hill by John Cleland

• Links
  • Text of 'Fanny Hill'

Biography

When Fanny Hill was 15 year old, her parents died and she moved to London with a friend who then left her to fend for herself. She was taken in by Mrs Brown who runs a brothel and she met a young client there called Charles who she fell in love with. They lived together but he disappeared and she was told he had gone abroad. She went to live at another brothel, and later became the kept woman of an older man who died and left her his fortune. She was reunited with Charles and they married.

Natty Bumppo aka Hawkeye

"N. Bumpo"

"...a Mr. Bumppo from America..."

• Featured in : The Leatherstocking Novels -
• The Deerslayer (1841)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
• The Pathfinder (1840)
• The Pioneers (1823)
• The Prairie (1827)

• Links
  • James Fenimore Cooper Society

Biography

Natty Bummpo (aka Hawkeye aka Pathfinder aka Deerslayer) is the son of a native american, Chingachook, and a white woman. He grew up as a near-fearless warrior skilled in many weapons, one of which he is seen with in this picture, the rifled musket. Hawkeye respects his forest home and all its inhabitants, hunting only what he needs to survive. And when it comes time to fire his trusty flintlock, he lives by the rule, "One shot, one kill." He and Chingachgook, champion goodness by trying to stop the incessant conflict between the Deleware Indians (the good guys all but extinct) and the Hurons (a tribe of the detestable Iroquois).

OBSERVATION

The apperance of Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) in this picture seems to be patterned after his portrayal by John Hart in the TV series "Hawkeye" (1957) and George Montgomery in the movie "The Pathfinder" (1952), which in turn are patterned after real-life heroes David "Davy" Crockett and Daniel Boone.