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THE WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE

Cast of Characters

PART I

by Win Scott Eckert

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 (this is 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.

Members of the Wold Newton Family:

Mr. Farmer's original Wold Newton Family Trees (from Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life) are online in graphic format. These family trees are the starting point for the extended universe described on this site.

ITALICS denote a character who was originally established by Philip José Farmer to be

• an ancestor of other Wold Newton Family members (such as Solomon Kane)

• present at the Wold Newton meteor strike (such as Sir Percy Blakeney)

• an actual member of the Wold Newton mutant Family.

  * Established by Mr. Farmer as a Wold Newton Family member, either in his biographies, or other books or articles

  ** Present at Wold Newton meteor strike

  *** Mentioned in Mr. Farmer's biographies or books, but not necessarily a Wold Newton Family member, such as Victor Frankenstein I and Sexton Blake

ITALICS also designate characters

• that Rick Lai postulated were Wold Newton Family members in his article The Secret History of Captain Nemo (such as Dr. James Noel and Dominick Medina)

• that I have added through crossovers, who, by descent, must be Wold Newton Family members (examples are Rasputin, Raffles Holmes, Archie Goodwin, Creighton Holmes, Shang Chi, Clive Reston, Dawn Drummond-Clayton, Kent Lane, Ching Yao Chang, Hsu-Tei, Clark Savage IV, Pam Savage Hazzard, Spencer Holmes, James Suzuki, and Spock of Vulcan)

• who are new members of the Wold Newton Family Tree and have been added to the Newtonverse on the basis of conjectural and speculative links, much like the scholarship that Farmer himself performed in Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage. These conjectural extensions appear in Articles or Chronologies on this site, or, in the main, on two other sites: Dennis Power's The Secret History of the Wold Newton Universe and Mark Brown's Wold Newton Chronicles. Examples of these characters are Charlie Chan, Mack Bolan, Shrinking Violet Holmes, Nellie Gray, Modesty Blaise, Spenser, and Kinsey Millhone.

Click on a name in red to go to that character's or sub-universe's individual chronology at Chronology Central . Clicking on a link for an in-depth article will take the reader to the relevant section of the Articles page on this site, or to the correct article on Dennis Power's Secret History site, Mark Brown's Chronicles site, or various other sites.

Superhero characters or characters related to superhero universes appear in green text (click here for a detailed explanation of how superhero characters are included on this list).

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The Cthulhu Mythos (throughout history)

Doctor Who (throughout time, space, and alternate dimensions)

The Immortals (Highlander) (throughout history)

The immortal Kane (throughout history) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

Thongor of Lemuria (491,000 BCE)

King Kull of Valusia (18,000 BCE)

Conan the Barbarian (10,000 BCE)

Red Sonja of Hyrkania (10,000 BCE)

Hadon of ancient Opar *** (10,000 BCE)

Mathayus, the Scorpion King (c. 3,000 BCE)

Ayesha, She-who-must-be-obeyed *** (c. 380 BCE-1977)

Captain Miles Gloriosus (c. 200 BCE)

Simon of Gitta (27-50)

Casca, the Eternal Mercenary (30-present)

Bran Mak Morn (206-210)

Cormac Mac Art (470s-490s)

Robin Hood (late 1100s)

Ivanhoe (1194)

Sir Nigel Loring * (1348-1366)

Geneviève Dieudonné (1432-present)

Dr. Pretorius (c. 1400s-present) (click here for an in-depth article)

Count Dracula (1476-present) (click here for an in-depth article)

Raphael Hythloday * (early 1500s)

The Phantom(s) (1535-2157 and beyond?)

Solomon Kane * (1566-1610)

Don Quixote (late 1500s)

The Laughing Cavalier (the first Percy Blakeney) (1623-1624) (click here for an in-depth article)

The Three Musketeers (1625-1661)

Captain Peter Blood * (late 1600s)

The Collins family (Dark Shadows) (1690-present) (click here for an in-depth article)

Natty Bumppo * (1740-1804)

Doctor Syn (aka Captain Clegg aka the Scarecrow) (1754-1808)

Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins (1760) (click here for an in-depth article)

Count Cagliostro (Joseph Balsamo) * (1780s)

Ichabod Crane (1787)

Victor Frankenstein I *** (1790-1795) and the original Frankenstein Monster (1790-1909, 2000-?) (click here for an in-depth article)

The Scarlet Pimpernel (Sir Percy Blakeney, great-great-grandson of the first Sir Percy) ** (1791-1795) (click here for an in-depth article)

Roger Brook (1792-1802)

Admiral Horatio Hornblower *** (1794-1848)

Lord Nicholas Ramage (1790s-early 1800s) (click here for an in-depth article)

Brigadier Gerard * (1790s-early 1800s)

Richard Sharpe (1799-1821)

The first Zorro (Don Diego de la Vega) (1806-1853)

Lady Rawhide (Anita Santiago, Zorro's sometime enemy and ally; later known as Vampirella) (1812-1814, 1818-present) (click here for an in-depth article)

Arthur Gordon Pym (aka the third Captain Nemo aka Harold Duggan) (1827-?)

Victor Frankenstein II (son of Victor Frankenstein) (1828-1859) (click here for an in-depth article)

Don Q, Son of Zorro (Don Cesar de la Vega, son of Diego) (1830-1832)

Allan Quatermain * (1830s-1898) 

Oliver Twist (1835)

Sir Harry Paget Flashman * (1839-1900)

Dr. James Noel (1840s-1870s) (click here for in-depth article)

C. Auguste Dupin * (1841-1844)

Captain Ahab (1847) and Ishmael (1847, 1898)

The second Zorro (Don Alejandro de la Vega, heir of Don Diego) (1853-?)

Victor Frankenstein III (son of Victor Frankenstein II) (1857-1872) and the second (1857-1870, 1966), third (1860), and fourth Monsters (1863-1870) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

Monsieur Lecoq * (1859-1877)

Doctor John Dolittle (1860s) (click here for in-depth article)

Aaron Stemple (Here Come the Brides) (1860s-1870s)

Hondo Lane (1860s-1870s) (click here for an in-depth article)

Paladin (Have Gun, Will Travel) (1860s-1880s) (click here for an in-depth article)

Matt Dillon and company (Gunsmoke) (1860s-1880s) (click here for an in-depth article)

Alice Liddell (1862, 1898)

Professor Otto Lidenbrock and Axel Lidenbrock (1863)

Dr. Samuel Ferguson (1863)

Captain Hatteras (1863)

Plantagenet Palliser (1864-1898)

Broad Arrow Jack (John Ashleigh) (1865) (click here for an in-depth article)

Impey Barbicane, J.T. Maston, and other members of the Baltimore Gun Club (1865-1886)

The third Zorro (Jeff Stewart, cousin of Diego de la Vega) (1865)

Prince Dakkar (aka the real Captain Nemo) (1865-?) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

The first Professor James Moriarty (who also posed as Captain Nemo) * (1865-1872 as Nemo / 1872-1906 as Moriarty) (click here, here, and here for in-depth articles)

U.S. Secret Service agents James West & Artemus Gordon (The Wild, Wild West) (1868-1889) (click here for an in-depth article)

Edwin Drood (1869)

The Floating Outfit (Dusty Fog, Mark Counter and the Ysabel Kid) (1870-1880) (click here for an in-depth article)

Dorian Gray (1870-1889)

Cheyenne Bodie (1870s) (click here for an in-depth article)

Sherlock Holmes * and Dr. John Watson, (1870-?) as well as Mycroft Holmes * and Sherringford Holmes

Jonah Hex (1870s-1904) (click here for an in-depth article)

Phileas Fogg * (1872)

Spring-Heeled Jack (1874-1998) (click here for an in-depth article)

Fu Manchu * (1875-1982?)

The fourth Zorro (Joaquin "Ken" Mason, son of Alejandro, grandson of Diego de la Vega) (1875)

Dr. Moreau (1875-1887)

The Lone Ranger (John Reid) & Tonto (1874-1896)

Hector Servadac (1877)

Colonel Sebastian Moran (1880s-1906)

Kimball O'Hara (1880s-1898) (click here for an in-depth article)

Colonel John Clay aka Paul Finglemore (grandson of Count Cagliostro and son of Sir William Clayton; father of Dr. Caber and Carl Peterson) * (1880s-1890s) (click here for an in-depth article)

Inspector Cribb (1880s)

Erik, The Opera Ghost (1880-?)

A.J. Raffles * (1883-1930s) (click here for an in-depth article)

Randolph Carter (great-nephew of John Carter) (1883-1920)

Ludwig Horace Holly * and Leo Vincey (1883-1902)

Dr. Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde (1883-1885, 1898, 1909) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

Henry Frankenstein (descendant of Victor Frankenstein I) (1885-1886), the fifth Monster (1885-1998) and the Monster's Bride (1886, 1998) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

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