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. 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 Typist (1956)
The Case of the Demure Defendant (1956)
The Case of the Lucky Loser (1957)
The Case of the Daring Decoy (1957)
The Case of the Long Legged Models (1958)
The Case of the Mythical Monkeys (1959)
The Case of the Singing Saint (1959)
The Case of the Shapely Shadow (1960)
The Case of the Spurious Spinster (1961)
The Case of the Bigamous Spouse (1961)
The Case of the Reluctant Model (1962)
The Case of the Ice Cold Hands (1962)
The Case of the Blonde Bonanza (1962)
The Case of the Stepdaughter's Secret (1963)
The Case of the Amourous Aunt (1963)
The Case of the Darling Divorcee (1964)
The Case of the Horrified Heirs (1964)
The Case of the Troubled Trustee (1965)
The Case of the Queenly Contestant (1967)
The Case of the Careless Cupid (1968)
The Case of the Fabulous Fake (1969)
The Case of the Fenced-In Woman (1972)
The Case of the Postponed Murder (1973)
Mason's relationship to the other members of the WNU can be seen here

Smilin' Jack Martin and son Smilin' Jack Jr. (1933-1973)

Nick and Nora Charles (1934)
created by Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man (1934)

Jimmy Christopher, Secret Service Operator #5 (1934-1939)
Jimmy Christopher's relationship to other WNU members can be seen here

Don Winslow of the Navy (1934-1955)
novels based on the comic strip and radio show
by Frank V. Martinek
Don Winslow, USN, in Ceylon With Kwang (1934)
Don Winslow of the Navy (1940)
Don Winslow Face to Face With the Scorpion (1940)
Don Winslow Breaks the Spy Net (1941)
Don Winslow Saves the Secret Formula (1941)
Don Winslow and the Scorpion's Stronghold

Sir Henry Merrivale (1934-1960s)
Merrivale's career and family are discussed in
The Holmes Family tree and Keeping Secrets
created by John Dickenson Carr
under pseudonym Carter Dickenson
The Plague Court Murders (1934)
The White Priory Murders (1934)
The Red Widow Murders (1935)
The Unicorn Murders (1935)
The Magic Lantern Murders (1936)
APA The Punch and Judy Murders
The Third Bullet (1937)
The Peacock Feather Murders (1937)
APA The Ten Teacups
Death in Five Boxes (1938)
The Judas Window (1938)
APA The Crossbow Murders (1964)
The Reader Is Warned (1939)
And So to Murder (1940)
Nine--And Death Makes Ten, Morrow (1940)
APA Murder in the Atlantic (1950)
APA Murder in the Submarine Zone (1950)
Seeing Is Believing (1941)
APA Cross of Murder (1959)
The Gilded Man (1942)
APA Death and the Gilded Man (1947)
She Died a Lady (1943)
He Wouldn't Kill Patience (1944)
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (1945)
APA Lord of the Sorcerers
My Late Wives (1946)
The Skeleton in the Clock (1948)
A Graveyard to Let (1949)
Night at the Mocking Widow (1950)
Behind the Crimson Blind (1952)
The Cavalier's Cup (1953)

Terry and the Pirates (1934-1970s)
(click here for an in-depth article)
created by Milton Caniff

The Black Bat (mid 1930s)

Gene Autry (1930s-) NEW!
cowboy entertainer
The Phantom Empire (1935)
The Old Corral (1936)

Robert Blake (great nephew of Phileas Fogg) (mid 1930s)
created by H.P. Lovecraft
The Haunter of the Dark (1936)

Mandrake the Magician (mid 1930s-1970s)
created by Lee Falk

Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (1934-1953)
created by Robert Leslie Bellem

The Werewolf of London (Wilfred Glendon) (1934)
(click here for a relevant article)

Doctor Death (Rance Mandarin) (1935)

Curtius Parry (1935)
created by Philip José Farmer
The Volcano (1976)

"Crash" Corrigan (1935)
Undersea Kingdom (1936)

The fifth Zorro (James Vega, great grandson of Diego de la Vega) (1935)
To see how this Zorro is related to other members of the Wold Newton Family
please see An Addendum to the Legend of the Fox

Mr. Moto (son of Wolf Larsen) (1935-1957)
(click here for an in-depth article)
created by John P. Marquand

Dr. Janos Rukh (1935)
(click here for a related article)

The Whisperer (James "Wildcat" Gordon, grandson of Artemus Gordon) (1935-1942)
(click here for an in-depth article)
(click here for more information)

The Mysterious Wu Fang (1935-1936)

Dan Fowler (1935-1953)

Flash Gordon and Dale Arden (1935-?)
(click here for an in-depth article)

The fifth Invisible Man (Robert Griffin (1935),
son of John "Jack" Hawley Griffin)

Dr. Peter Drury NEW!
Originally named Praetorious Frankenstein,
the son of Franz Von Junzt (Frankenstein) (who was the natural son of Victor III Frankenstein)
featured in The Invisibles: Robert Griffin his actual influence in the Secret WNU has been vast

Dr. Cameron Sullivan NEW!
Originally named Hermes Frankenstein,
the son of Franz Von Junzt (Frankenstein) (who was the natural son of Victor III Frankenstein)

Philip Marlowe (grandson of Ned Land) (1935-1959)
created by Raymond Chandler
Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
The High Window (1942)
The Big Sleep (1939)
The Lady in the Lake (1943)
The Little Sister (1949)
The Long Goodbye (1953)
Playback (1958)
Poodle Springs
Perchance To Dream by Robert B. Parker

Dr. Yen Sin (1936)

Dol Bonner (1936)

George Gregory Gordon (aka "Gees") (1936-1942)

The first Green Hornet
Britt Reid (1936-1945)
great nephew of John Reid, The Lone Ranger
& Ikano Kato
Britt Reid's family and career are discussed in
Masked Memories: The Reids
and also in Masked Men

The Twilight Avenger (Reese Chambers) (1937)

Duncan MacLain (1937-1961) NEW!
created by Bayard Kendrick
Last Express (1937)
Whistling Hangman (1937)
The Odor of Violets (1941)
Blind Man's Bluff (1943)
Death Knell (1945)
Out of Control (1945)
Make Mine Maclain (1947)
You Diet Today (1952)
Blind Allies (1954)
Reservations for Death (1957)
Clear and Present Danger (1958)
Aluminum Turtle (1960)
Frankincense and Murder (1961)

The Baron (1937-)
John Mannering
For more information, click here
created by John Creasey
Meet the Baron (1937)
The Baron Returns (1937)
The Baron at Bay (1938)
Alias the Baron (1939)
The Baron Comes Back (1943)
Shadow the Baron (1951)
Salute for the Baron (1960)
Sport for the Baron (1966)
Baron, the King-Maker (1975)

The Toff (1937-)
Richard Rollison
For more information, click here
created by John Creasey
Introducing the Toff (1938)
The Toff Steps Out (1939)
The Toff Goes On (1939)
The Toff Breaks In (1940)
Here Comes the Toff (1940)
The Toff Goes to Market (1942)
The Toff on Ice (1947)
Call the Toff (1953)
Vote for the Toff (1971)

Slam Bradley (brother of Biff Bradley)
and Samuel "Shorty" Morgan (1937-1987)

Captain Rex Hazzard (1937)

Nowell Ffoulkes (great-great-grandson of Sir Andrew Ffoulkes) (1937)

The Miracle Squad (1937)

John Sunlight (son of Doc Savage) (1937-1989)

The first Batman (Bruce Wayne) (1937-1959) and
Robin (Richard Grayson) (1940-1949)

Captain Satan (Cary Adair) (1937-1938)
(click here for an in-depth article)

Jake Cutter and company (1938)
"Tales of the Gold Monkey" TV series (1982-1983)

Mike Shayne, Sr. (1938-early 1960s)
(click here for a related article)

Captain Gravity (Joshua Jones) (1938-1940)

Yarko the Great (1938-1939)

Creighton Holmes (1938)
(grandson of Sherlock and probable son of Raffles Holmes)
created by Ned Hubbell

The Rocketeer (Cliff Secord) (1938)
comic book created by Dave Stevens

Judge Pursuivant (1938-1963)
created by Manly Wade Wellman

Llana of Gathol (granddaughter of John Carter) (1938-present?)
created by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Dr. Elwin Ransom (1938-1946)
created by C.S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
Perelandra (1943)
That Hideous Strength (1945)

The Avenger (1938-1987)
(Richard Henry Benson, great nephew of Phileas Fogg)
created by Kenneth Robeson

Nellie Gray (daughter of Tarzan and Jane) (1938-1971)

Superman (Clark Kent) and Lois Lane (sister of The Shadow's Margo
Lane (Margo Lane is an adopted sister) (1938-early 1950s)
(click here, here, and here for in-depth articles)

Professor Horatio "Pimpernel" Smith
(son of Sir Denis Nayland Smith)
(click here for more information)

Dr. Alexei Zorka (1939)
The Phantom Creeps (1939)

El Carim (1939-1940)

The Invisible Woman (Kitty Carroll) (1939)
(click here for an in-depth article)

Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner (1939-1954)
The son of Arthur Gordon Pym

The Octopus / The Scorpion (1939)
(click here and here for in-depth articles)

Zigomar II (1939)

The Catwoman (Khefretari a.k.a. Selina Kyle) (1939-1977) NEW!

The Ghost aka The Green Ghost (George Chance) (1939-1944)

Hop Harrigan (1939-1940s) and son Ace Harrigan (1970s)

Doctor Joanna Dare (1939-1945)

Cash Gorman (The Wizard) (1940-1941)
created by Phil R. Sheridan
The Wizard (Oct. 1940) "Gild the Sword with Gold"

The Green Lama (Jethro Dumont) (1940-1949)
(click here for an in-depth article)

Doc Harker (1940)

Dr. Sigmund Walters, Fred Mason and Paula Dupree (1942) NEW!
Captive Wild Woman (1943)
Jungle Woman (1944)
Jungle Captive (1945)

David Farrell (1941-1953) NEW!
Front Page Farrell radio drama

Solomon Grundy (1942-) NEW!
(click here for more details)

The Scarlet Wizard (Don Diavolo) (1940)

The Crimson Mask ("Doc" Clarke) (1940-1944)

The Spirit (Denny Colt) (1940-1952)
created by Will Eisner

Alphabet Hicks (1940)
created by Rex Stout
The Sound of Murder (1941)

The Gay Falcon (1940)
(Michael Waring)
created by Michael Arlen
The Gay Falcon (1940)
For more information, click here

The Angel Detective (1941)

Will Everett (1941-)

Gerald North and Pamela North (Mr. and Mrs. North) 1940
created by Frances and Richard Lockridge
The Norths Meet Murder (1940)
Murder Out of Turn (1941)
A Pinch of Poison (1941)
Death on the Aisle (1942)
Hanged for a Sheep (1942)
Death Takes a Bow (1943)
Killing the Goose (1944)
Payoff for the Banker (1945)
Murder Within Murder (1946)
Death of a Tall Man (1946)
Untidy Murder (1947)
Murder Is Served (1948)
The Dishonest Murderer (1949)
Murder in a Hurry (1950)
Murder Comes First (1951)
Dead As a Dinosaur (1952)
Death Has a Small Voice (1953)
Curtain for a Jester (1953)
A Key to Death (1954)
Death of an Angel (1955)
Voyage into Violence (1956)
The Long Skeleton (1958)
Murder Is Suggested (1959)
The Judge Is Reversed (1960)
Murder Has Its Points (1961)
Murder by the Book (1963)

Tecumseh Fox (1941)

Captain America (Steve Rogers) (1941-1945, 1965-?)
and Bucky Barnes (1942-1945)
Featured in Marvel Comics

David "Airboy" Nelson (1941-1985)
Airboy by Hillman Comics
Airboy is mentioned in Cartwrights

The Black Fury, later known as Miss Fury
(Marla Drake, cousin of John Drake) (1941-1952)

Dr. Charles McNider (1941-1942) NEW!
also known as Dr. Mid-Nite
For his true name and family history see Daredevil

Blackhawk (1941-mid 1950s)

Plastic Man (Eel O'Brian) (1941-1949)
and Woozy Winks (Ollu)
Eel O'Brian's origins are discussed in
Stretching Things and Proto-Types

The Invisible Agent (Frank Griffin, Jr., (1941-1942)
son of Jack Griffin, nephew of Frank Griffin, Sr., and
grandson of John "Jack" Hawley Griffin)

Wonder Woman (1941-1950s)

John Thunstone (1942-1964)
created by Manly Wade Wellman

Lucius Leffing (1942-1979)

Douglas Roberts (1942-1945) NEW!
created by Thomas Heggen
Mister Roberts (1946)

Col. Nick Fury (1942-1945)
Featured in Marvel Comics

Neptune Perkins (1942-1945)
also known as Namor the Sub-Mariner
(son of Arthur Gordon Pym)

The Unknown Soldier (1942-1945)

Viktor Domovoi aka Viktor Von Doom NEW!
grandson of Fu Manchu
descendant of Dracula

Colonel Robert Hogan, Louis Lebeau, Peter Newkirk, James Kinchloe and Andrew Carter NEW!
"Hogan's Heroes" TV series (1965-1971)

Sgt. Rock and Easy Company (1942-1945)
Featured in DC Comics

Inspector Roger West (1942-1978)
created by John Creasey
Inspector West Takes Charge (1942)
Go Away to Murder (1943)
APA Inspector West Leaves Town
Inspector West at Home (1944)
Inspector West Regrets (1945)
Holiday for Inspector West (1946)
Battle for Inspector West (1948)
The Case Against Paul Raeburn (1948)
APA Triumph for Inspector West
Sport for Inspector West (1949)
APA Inspector West Kicks Off
Inspector West Alone (1950)
The Creepers (1950)
APA Inspector West Cries Wolf
The Dissemblers (1951)
Puzzle for Inspector West
The Figure in the Dusk (1951)
A Case for Inspector West
The Blind Spot (1952)
APA Inspector West at Bay
Give a Man a Gun (1953)
APA A Gun for Inspector West
Send Superintendent West (1953)
APA Send Inspector West
Murder One Two Three (1955)
APA Two for Inspector West
The Beauty Queen Killer (1955)
APA A Beauty for Inspector West
The Gelignite Gang (1955)
APA Inspector West Makes Haste
Death of an Assassin (1956)
APA A Prince for Inspector West
Death of a Postman (1957)
APA A Parcel for Inspector West
Hit and Run (1957)
APA Accident for Inspector West
Trouble at Saxby's (1957)
APA Find Inspector West
Murder London-New York (1958)
The Killing Strike (1958)
APA Strike of Death
Case of the Innocent Victims (1959)
Death of a Racehorse (1959)
Murder on the Line (1960)
Death in Cold Print (1961)
Policeman's Dread (1961)
The Scene of the Crime (1961)
A Splinter of Glass (1962)
Hang the Little Man (1963)
Look Three Ways to Murder (1964)
Murder London-Australia (1965)
Murder London-South Africa (1966)
The Executioners (1967)
So Young to Burn (1968)
Murder London-Miami (1969)
Part for a Policeman (1970)
Alibi (1971)
A Splinter of Glass (1972)
Theft of the Magna Carta (1973)
The Extortioners (1975)
A Sharp Rise in Crime (1978)

J. J. Sefton and the other prisoners of Stalag 17 (1944) NEW!
Stalag 17 (1953)

Silver John (1945-1967)

Lew Archer (1946-1976)
(grandson of Professor Challenger)
created by Ross MacDonald
The Moving Target (1949)
The Drowning Pool (1950)
The Way Some People Die (1951)
The Ivory Grin (1952; AKA Marked for Murder)
Find a Victim (1954)
The Barbarous Coast (1956)
The Doomsters (1958)
The Galton Case (1959)
The Ferguson Affair (1960)
The Wycherly Woman (1961)
The Zebra-Striped Hearse (1962)
The Chill (1964)
The Far Side of the Dollar (1965)
Black Money (1966)
The Instant Enemy (1968)
The Goodbye Look (1969)
The Underground Man (1971)
Sleeping Beauty (1973)
The Blue Hammer (1976)

Paul Janus "Kickaha" Finnegan (1946-1992)
(great nephew of Phileas Fogg)
created by Philip José Farmer
Maker of Universes (1965)
Gates of Creation (1966)
A Private Cosmos (1968)
Behind the Walls of Terra (1970)
The Lavalite World (1977)
Red Orc's Rage (1991)
More than Fire (1993)

Shrinking Violet Holmes (1946-1947)
(daughter of Mycroft Holmes)

Ralph (Ollu) and Alice Kramden NEW!
Ed (Buzsla) and Trixie Norton
"The Honeymooners" TV series (1955-1956)

Thomas Benton Quest (1946-)
as Tom Quest
created by Fran Striker
Sign of the Spiral
The Telltale Scar (1947)
The Clue of the Cypress Stump (1948)
The Secret of the Lost Mesa (1949)
The Hidden Stone Mystery (1950)
The Secret of Thunder Mountain (1952)
The Inca Luck Piece (1955)
Mystery of the Timber Giant (1955)
as Benton Quest
"Jonny Quest" TV series (1964-1965)
The man known as Tom Quest and also Benton Quest is mentioned here
part of his genealogy is seen here

Frederick Frankenstein (son of Wolf Frankenstein) and the sixth Frankenstein Monster (1948)
(click here and here for relevant articles)
You may also view a family tree of the Frankenstein family

Captain Zero (late 1940s)

Martin Kane (1949)
"Martin Kane, Private Eye" TV series (1949-1954)
"The New Adventures of Martin Kane" TV series (1957)

Jeff King (1949)
King of the Rocket Men (1949)

Patrick Butler (1949-1956)

The seventh Invisible Man (Tommy Nelson) (1949)

Curt Bannion (1950s)
created Earl Norman
Private Investigator living in Japan
Kill me in Shinjuku
Kill me in Shimbashi
Kill me in Yokohama
Kill me in Tokyo
Kill me on the Ginza

Triffidis Celestius Mobile (1950) NEW!
alien parasitic plant
created by John Wyndham
Day of the Triffids (1951)

Sheldon "Shell" Scott (1950-1987)
created by Richard S. Prather
Shell Scott is mentioned in the articles The Barkleys and Cartwrights
The Case of the Vanishing Beauty (1950)
Bodies in Bedlam (1951)
Everybody Had a Gun (1951)
Find This Woman (1951)
Way of a Wanton (1952)
Pattern for Murder (1952)
Darling, It's Death (1952)
Ride a High Horse (1953)
Always Leave 'em Dying (1954)
Pattern for Panic (1954)
The Wailing Frail (1956)
Have Gat, Will Travel (1957, short stories)
Three's a Shroud (1957, novelettes)
Slab Happy (1958)
Take a Murder, Darling (1958)
Over Her Dead Body (1959)
Double in Trouble (1959)
Dance with the Dead (1960)
Dig That Crazy Grave (1961)
Shell Scott's Seven Slaughters (1962, short stories)
Kill the Clown (1962)
Dead Heat (1963)
Joker in the Deck (1964)
The Cockeyed Corpse (1964)
The Trojan Hearse (1964)
Kill Him Twice (1965)
Dead Man's Walk (1965)
The Meandering Corpse (1965)
The Kubla Khan Caper (1966)
Gat Heat (1967)
The Cheim Manuscript (1969)
Kill Me Tomorrow (1969)
The Shell Scott Sampler (1969, short stories)
Dead Bang (1971)
The Sweet Ride (1972)
The Sure Thing (1975)
The Amber Effect (1986)
Shellshock (1987)

Schuyler "Sky" King, Penny King, Clipper King (1951)
"Sky King" TV Series (1951)
Sky King's relationship to the WNU is mentioned in The Cartwrights

Bond, James Bond (1951-1965, 1973, 1979-1997)
created by Ian Fleming

Sir Lancelot Spratt (1951-1985)
created by Richard Gordon
Doctor in the House (1952)
Doctor at Sea (1953)
Doctor at Large (1955)
Doctor in Love (1957)
Doctor and Son (1959)
Doctor in Clover (1960)
Doctor on Toast (1962)
Doctor in the Swim (1962)
Doctor on the Boil (1970)
Doctor on the Brain (1972)
Doctor in the Nude (1973)
Doctor on the Job (1976)
Doctor in the Nest (1979)
Doctor on the Ball (1985)
Doctor in the Soup (1986)

Brian "Gage" Roberts NEW!
nephew of Reid Roberts
Tobor the Great (1954)

Godzilla (1954, 1998-?)
Gojira (1954)
story continued by Marc Cerasini
Godzilla Returns (1996)
Godzilla 2000 (1997)
Godzilla at World's End (1998)
Godzilla vs. the Robot Monsters (1998)

The Gill-Man (1954-1990s)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Revenge of the Creature (1955)
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

Commander George Gideon of New Scotland Yard (1955-1990)
created by John Creasey
Gideon's Day (1955)
Gideon's Week (1956)
Gideon's Night (1957)
Gideon's Month (1958)
Gideon's Staff (1959)
Gideon's Risk (1960)
Gideon's Fire (1961)
Gideon's March (1962)
Gideon's Ride (1963)
Gideon's Vote (1964)
Gideon's Badge (1966)
Gideon's Wrath (1967)
Gideon's River (1968)
Gideon's Power (1969)
Gideon's Sport (1970)
Gideon's Art (1971)
Gideon's Men (1972)
Gideon's Press (1973)
Gideon's Fog (1975)
Gideon's Drive (1976)

The Deadman (the late Boston Brand) (mid 1950s)

Flash II (Barry Allen) (1955-1970) NEW!

Doctor No (1956, 1971)
(grandson of Dr. James Noel)
(click here for an in-depth article)

Tony Rivers (1956) NEW!
Later known as Harold Howard (1984-)
See Hydden Lineage for more information

Lt. Frank Ballinger (M Squad) (1957-1960)
(click here for a relevant article)
"M Squad" TV series (1957-1960)

Honey West (1957-1974)
created by G. G. Fickling
Honey's family is discussed in The Wests
This Girl for Hire (1957)
A Gun for Honey (1958)
Girl on the Loose (1958)
Honey in the Flesh (1959)
Girl on the Prowl (1959)
Kiss for a Killer (1960)
Dig a Dead Doll (1960)
Blood and Honey (1961)
Bombshell (1964)
Stiff as a Broad (1971)
Honey on Her Tail (1971)
"Honey West" TV series (1965-1966)

Toussaint Moore (1957)
created by Ed Lacy
Room to Swing (1957)
Tooey's family is mentioned in the Henry Family

Scott (Porter) Carey (1957)
created by Richard Matheson
The Shrinking Man (1956)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Scott Carey's family is discussed here and here

The Challengers of the Unknown (1957) NEW!

Matt Helm (1958-present)
(click here and here for related articles)
created by Donald Hamilton
Death of a Citizen (1960)
The Wrecking Crew (1960)
The Removers (1961)
The Silencers (1962)
Murderer's Row (1962)
The Ambushers (1963)
The Shadowers (1964)
The Ravagers (1964)
The Devastators (1965)
The Betrayers (1966)
The Menacers (1968)
The Interlopers (1969)
The Poisoners (1971)
The Intriguers (1972)
The Intimidators (1974)
The Terminators (1975)
The Retaliators (1976)
The Terrorizers (1977)
The Revengers (1982)
The Annihilators (1983)
The Infiltrators (1984)
The Detonators (1985)
The Vanishers (1986)
The Demolishers (1987)
The Frighteners (1989)
The Threateners (1992)
The Damagers (1993)

Delos D. Harriman (1950s) NEW!
created by Robert Heinlein
The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950)
Requiem (1940)

Seymour Kahlbaum (Krelboyne) and Audry II (1958) NEW!
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

Ernst Stavro Blofeld (1959-1963)
(son of Wolf Larsen/Baron Karl von Hessell)
(click here for an in-depth article)

British agents John Steed, Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel,
Tara King, Mike Gambit & Purdey
(The Avengers and The New Avengers) (1960-1969, 1976-1977)
(click here and here for relevant articles)

British agent John Drake
(Danger Man / Secret Agent / The Prisoner) (1960-1969, 1988)

The second Batman (Richard Grayson)
and Robin (Bruce Wayne, Jr.) (1960-1978)

The Elongated Man (Ralph Dibny, son of Eel O'Brian) (1960-1987)

The Fantastic Four (1960-late 1970s)
Reid Roberts (nephew of Long Tom Roberts) NEW!
Benjamin Grimm (grandson of Edward Hyde)
Susan and Johnny Storm (son and daughter of Kitty Carroll, the Invisible Woman)
(click here for an in-depth article)

Robert Bruce Banner (1960s-) NEW!
The Incredible Hulk
created by Marvel Comics
cousin to David Bruce Banner,
grandson of Edward Hyde
For more information please see Hyde and Heirs

Roger "Race" Bannion (1960s)
"Jonny Quest" TV series (1964-1965)
Race Bannion's family is discussed here

Travis McGee (1961-1983)
created by John MacDonald
The Deep Blue Goodbye (1964)
Nightmare in Pink (1964)
A Purple Place for Dying (1964)
The Quick Red Fox (1964)
A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965)
Bright Orange for the Shroud (1965)
Darker Than Amber (1966)
One Fearful Yellow Eye (1966)
Pale Gray for Guilt (1968)
The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (1968)
The Long Lavender Look (1970)
A Tan and Sandy Silence (1971)
Dress Her in Indigo (1971)
The Scarlet Ruse (1973)
The Turquoise Lament (1973)
The Dreadful Lemon Sky (1974)
The Empty Copper Sea (1978)
The Green Ripper (1979)
Free Fall in Crimson (1981)
Cinnamon Skin (1982)
The Lonely Silver Rain (1984)

Dr. Julius Kahlbaum (Kelp)/Buddy Love (1961) NEW!
great-grandson of Dr. Henry Jekyll
The Nutty Professor (1963)

The Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (1961-early 1980s)
(click