THE SECRET WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE

Cast of Characters

PART II

Following is a list of characters or sub-universes encompassed within The Wold Newton Universe, along with general dates or known periods of operation. Many on the list were originally placed in the Universe by Philip José Farmer (not intended to be an all-inclusive list - see Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage). I have added many more through their involvement in crossover stories with Farmer's original Wold Newton characters.

The following criteria used to determine membership.

(1) an ancestor of other Wold Newton family members (such as Solomon Kane),

(2) present at the Wold Newton meteor strike (such as Sir Percy Blakeney), or

(3) an actual member of the Wold Newton mutant family.

(4) characters that Rick Lai postulated were Wold Newton family members (such as Dr. James Noel and Dominick Medina), and characters who, by descent, must be Wold Newton family members (examples are Rasputin, Raffles Holmes, Archie Goodwin, Creighton Holmes, Dawn Drummond-Clayton, Ching Yao Chang, Hsu-Tei, Clark Savage IV, Pam Savage, Spencer Holmes, James Suzuki, and Spock of Vulcan).

BROWN TEXT INDICATES REVISIONS AND ADDITIONS TO THE CHARACTER LIST BY DENNIS POWER. THE REVISIONS AND ADDITIONS WILL REFLECT NEW CHARACTERS, SPECULATIONS ON THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS AND ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION. THESE ARE OFTEN BROUGHT IN BY HIS OWN RESEARCH AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE CHARACTERS ACCEPTED BY THE ORIGINAL WOLD NEWTON CHARACTER LIST.

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William Carpenter, The Third Invisible Man (1929)
created by Philip Wylie
The Murderer Invisible (1931)

Hugh North (1930-1968)
created by F. Van Wyck Mason
celebrated member of United States Army G-2 section
Seeds of Murder (1930)
Vesper Service Murders (1931)
Fort Terror Murders (1931)
Yellow Arrow Murders (1932)
Branded Spy Murders (1932)
Sulu Sea Murders (1933)
Shanghai Bund Murders (1933)
Washington Legation Murders (1935)
Budapest Parade Murders (1935)
Seven Seas Murder (1936)
Multimillion Dollar Murders (1937)
Hong Kong Airbase Murders (1937)
Cairo Garter Murders (1938)
Singapore Exile Murders (1939)
Bucharest Ballerina Murders (1940)
Rio Casino Intrigue (1941)
Saigon Singer (1946)
Dardennalles Derelict (1949)
Himilayan Assignment (1952)
Two Tickets to Tangier (1955)
Gracious Lily Affair (1957)
Secret Mission to Bangkok (1960)
Trouble in Burma (1962)
Zanzibar Intrigue (1963)
Maricaibo Mission (1965)
Deadly Orbit Mission (1968)
Hugh's parentage appears in the Cartwrights

Dorus Noel (grandson of Dr. James Noel) (early 1930s)
(click here for an article about his lineage)
created by Arthur J. Burks

Norgil the Magician (1930s)
created by Walter Gibson
Norgil the Magician
Norgil, More Tales of Prestidetection

Bumpy Johnson (1930s) NEW!
The Cotton Club (1984)
Hoodlum (1997)

Click Rush, The Gadget Man (1930s)
created by Lester Dent
first appeared in "The Talking Toad" Crime Busters Vol. 1, No. 1 (Nov. 1937)

Steve Harrison (1930s)
created by Robert E. Howard

Nate Heller (1930s-1950s)
created by Max Allan Collins
True Detective (1983)
True Crime (1984)
The Million-Dollar Wound (1986)
Neon Mirage (1988)
Stolen Away (1991)
Carnal Hours (1994)
Blood and Thunder (1995)
Damned in Paradise (1996)
Flying Blind (1998)
Majic Man (1999)
Angel in Black (2001)
Chicago Confidential (2002)

Barney Baxter (1930s-1940s)
created by Frank Miller
King Features comic strip

Bill Barnes (1930s-1940s)

Nancy Drew (1930-late 1930s)
written by Carolyn Keene

Miles C. (Cartwright?) Banyon (1930s)
Private Investigator
"Banyon" TV series (1972-1973)
Miles Banyon also appears in the Cartwrights

King Kong *** (1931) and the son of Kong (1932)

The fourth Invisible Man (Geoffrey Radcliffe) (1931-1948)
and Frank Griffin, Sr
(brother of Jack Griffin,
son of John Hawley Griffin) (1931)

Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund (1931-1942)
(click here for an in-depth article)

Dick Tracy (1931-present)

Gordon Craigie and Department Z/
Dr. Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey and Department Z-5 (1932-1975)
created by John Creasey
Traitor's Doom (1942)
The Legion of the Lost (1943)
The Valley of Fear (1943)
U. S.: The Perilous County
Death in the Rising Sun (1945)
The Hounds of Vengeance (1945)
The Show of Doom (1946)
The House of Bears (1946)
Dark Harvest (1947)
The Wings of Peace (1948)
The Sons of Satan (1948)
The Dawn of Darkness (1949)
The League of Light (1949)
The Man Who Shook the World (1950)
The Prophet of Fire (1951)
The Children of Hate (1952)
U.S.: The Children of Despair
AKA The Killers of Innocence
The Touch of Death (1954)
The Mists of Fear (1955)
The Plague (1958)
The Drought (1959)
The Terror: The Return of Dr. Palfrey (1962)
The Depths (1963)
The Sleep! (1964)
The Inferno (1965)
The Famine (1967)
The Blight (1968)
The Oasis (1969)
The Smog (1970)
The Unbegotten (1971)
The Insulators (1972)
The Voiceless Ones (1973)
The Thunder Maker (1976)

Drury Lane (1932-1933)
(click here for an in-depth article)
created by Ellery Queen
The Tragedy of X (1932)
The Tragedy of Y (1932)
The Tragedy of Z (1933)
Drury Lane's Last Case (1933)

The Phantom Detective (1932-1953)
(Richard Curtis Van Loan)
Phantom Detective Magazine 170 Issues

Murdere Legendre (1932)
White Zombie (1932)

Jimmy Allen (1933-1936)
created by Robert M. Burrett and Willfred Moore
The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen, NBC, 1933

Harold Shea and Reed Chalmers (1930s-)
created by L. Sprague De Camp
The Complete Compleat Enchanter
The Enchanter Reborn
The Exotic Enchanter
Chalmers and Shea are discussed in the Carters and a partial genealogy is provided here

Albert Campion (1933-1970)
(click here for an in-depth article)
created by Margery Allingham

The Spider (1933-1943)
(Richard Wentworth, son of Lord John Roxton and
half-brother of G-8 and The Shadow)
(click here for an in-depth article)

The Wolf Man (Larry Talbot) (1933-present)
Talbot's career and family is discussed in Children of the Night

The Moon Man (Stephen Thatcher) (1933-1937)
(click here for an in-depth article)

Dr. Gideon Fell (1933-1960s)
created by John Carter Dickinson
Hag's Nook (1933)
The Mad Hatter Mystery (1933)
The Blind Barber (1933)
The Eight of Swords (1934)
Death Watch (1935)
The Hollow Man (1936, U.S. title The Three Coffins)
The Arabian Nights Murder (1936)
To Wake the Dead (1937)
The Crooked Hinge (1938)
The Problem of the Green Capsule (1939, British title The Black Spectacles)
The Problem of the Wire Cage (1939)
The Man Who Could Not Shudder (1940)
The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941)
Death Turns the Tables (1941, British title Seat of the Scornful)
Till Death Do Us Part (1944)
He Who Whispers (1946)
Dr. Fell, Detective (1946, short stories)
The Sleeping Sphinx (1947)
Below Suspicion (1949)
The Third Bullet and Other Stories (1954, short stories)
The Dead Man's Knock (1958)
In Spite of Thunder (1960)
The Men Who Explained Miracles (1963, short stories)
The House at Satan's Elbow (1965)
Panic in Box C (1966)
Dark of the Moon (1967)
The Door to Doom and Other Detections (1980)
The Dead Sleep Lightly (1983, radio plays)
Fell and Foul Play (1991, short stories)

Dr. Vitas Verdegast and Hjalmar Poelzig (1933)
The Black Cat (1934)

Secret Agent X (1933-1939)
(click here for an in-depth article)

Perry Mason (1933-1973)
The descendant of El Zorro
To see how Perry Mason is related to other members of the Wold Newton Family
please see An Addendum to the Legend of the Fox
created by Erle Stanly Gardner
The Case of the Velvet Claws (1933)
The Case of the Phantom Fortune (1933)
The Case of the Lucky Legs (1934)
The Case of the Curious Brides (1934)
The Case of the Counterfeit Eye (1935)
The Case of the Caretaker's Cat (1935)
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1936)
The Case of the Lame Canary (1937)
The Case of the Substitute Face (1938)
The Case of the Perjured Parrot (1939)
The Case of the Baited Hook (1940)
The Case of the Empty Tin (1941)
The Case of the Haunted Husband (1941)
The Case of the Turning Tide (1941)
The Case of the Drowning Duck (1942)
The Case of the Careless Kitten (1942)
The Case of the Buried Clock (1943)
The Case of the Crooked Candle (1944)
The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde (1944)
The Case of the Golddigger's Purse (1945)
The Case of the Borrowed Brunette (1946)
The Case of the Fan-Dancer's Horse (1947)
The Case of the Lonely Heiress (1948)
The Case of the Cautious Coquette (1949)
The Case of the Negligent Nymph (1949)
The Case of the Musical Cow (1950)
The Case of the One-Eyed Witness (1950)
The Case of the Fiery Fingers (1951)
The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink (1952)
The Case of the Grinning Gorilla (1952)
The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister (1953)
The Case of the Fugitive Nurse (1954)
The Case of the Glamorous Ghost (1955)
The Case of the Terrified Typis