THE WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE

Cast of Characters

PART II

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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Robur the Conqueror (1886-1913)

Mina Murray (1887-1913)

Charles Beauregard, Sr. (grandfather of Clive Reston) (1887-1920s)

Lt. Richard Hornblower (great grandson of Horatio Hornblower) (1887)

Carthoris of Helium (son of John Carter and Dejah Thoris) (1887-present?)

Inspector Dick Donovan (1888-1899) (click here for an in-depth article)

Tarzan (John Clayton, Lord Greystoke) * and his adopted son Korak (John Drummond-Clayton, Hugh Drummond's brother * (not pictured)) (1888-?) (click here and here and here for in-depth articles)

The Whip (Barbara Meredith, great granddaughter of Diego de la Vega) (1889)

Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris (1889-1898)

El Diablo (Lazarus Lane, brother of Hondo Lane) (late 1800s) (click here for an in-depth article)

The second Professor James Moriarty (aka Noel Moriarty aka Andrew Lumley) (1890s-1910) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

M. Auguste Didier (1890s)

The Man with the Mustache, the Italian, the Innocent Mute, and the straight-man (1890s-1975) (click here for in-depth article)

Alie Dunbar (1890-1891) (click here for in-depth article)

Bat Lash (1890-1927) (click here for an in-depth article)

The Cisco Kid and Pancho (1890s-1910s) (click here for in-depth article)

John Macklin (1891-1893) (click here for in-depth article)

The Time Traveler (great uncle of Doc Savage) * (throughout history (started in 1892)) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

Arsène Lupin * (1892-1950) (click here for in-depth article)

Rudolf Rassendyll * (1892-1895)

Doctor Nikola (1893-1939) (click here for in-depth article)

Sexton Blake *** (1893-?) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

Brisco County, Jr. and Lord Bowler (James Lonefeather) (1893-1894) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

Wolf Larsen (aka Baron Karl von Hessel) * and Death Larsen (twin sons of the first Professor Moriarty) (1893-1937) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

Professor George Edward Challenger,* his daughter Enid Challenger,* and his associates, Lord John Roxton* and Edward D. Malone (1893-1920s) (click here for an in-depth article)

Simon Carne, aka Klimo (1894-1903) (click here for in-depth article)

Mowgli (half-brother of Tarzan) (1894-1916) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

Lieut. Gulliver Jones (aka Gulliver of Mars) (1894-1898) (click here for an in-depth article)

James Jorkens (father of Joseph Jorkens) (1895)

Thomas Carnacki, the "Ghost Finder" (1896-1921)

  Randolph Mason (father of Perry Mason) (1896-1908) (click here for an in-depth article)

The first Invisible Man (John "Jack" Hawley Griffin) (1897-1898) (click here for an in-depth article)

Tara of Helium (daughter of John Carter and Dejah Thoris) (1898-present?)

Lord Peter Wimsey * (1898-1942) (click here for in-depth article)

Campion Bond (great-uncle of James Bond) (1898)

Professor Selwyn Cavor (1898-1900)

Captain Mors the Air Pirate (1898-1911) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

Dorothy Gale of Oz (1899-?)

Joseph Jorkens * (early 1900s-1950s) (click here for an in-depth article)

Hercule Poirot (1901-1974)

Father Brown (1902-1960s)

David Innes, Abner Perry, and the inner world of Pellucidar (discovered in 1903)

Professor Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle (1905) (click here for in-depth article)

Raffles Holmes (son of Sherlock Holmes and nephew of A.J. Raffles) (1906)

Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, the Thinking Machine (1906-1912)

The Four Just Men (1906-1928) (click here for an in-depth article)

Rasputin (son of the first Professor James Moriarty) (1906, 1916-1917, 1935) (click here for in-depth article)

Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke (1907-1942) (click here for in-depth article)

The Nyctalope (Léo Sainte-Claire aka Jean de Sainclair) (1908-1950s) (click here for in-depth article)

Indiana Jones (1908-1950)

Dr. John Silence (1908-1942) (click here for in-depth article)

Gaston Max (1909-1944) (click here for in-depth article)

Henry Wilcox (1909)

Sanders of the River (1910-1927)

Barton Swift and son Tom Swift (1910-1941)

The Clubfoot (Doctor Adolph Grundt) (early 1910s-1951)

Sir Edward Leithen (1910-1941)

Denis Nayland Smith (nephew of Sherlock Holmes, half-brother of Solar Pons) * and Dr. Petrie (1911-1983) (click here for an in-depth article)

The Gray Seal (Jimmie Dale) (1911-1935) (click here for an in-depth article)

Fantômas (1911-1930s) (click here for an in-depth article)

Craig Kennedy (1912-1936)

John Kirowan (1913-1934)

John Gorman (1913-1932) (click here for an in-depth article)

Michael Lanyard, the Lone Wolf (1913-1938)  (click here for an in-depth article)

Berry Pleydell and company (1914-1958)

Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer (1914)

The Enemy Ace (Baron Hans von Hammer) (1914-1945) (click here for an in-depth article)

British secret agent Ashenden (1914-1938)

Fah Lo Suee (daughter of Fu Manchu) (1914-1982) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

Charlotte Clayton (daughter of Tarzan and Jane) (1914) (click here for in-depth article)

Lord Emsworth (1914-1930s)

Richard Hannay * and his son Peter John Hannay (1915-1951)

Nero Wolfe (son of Sherlock Holmes) * and his nephew Archie Goodwin * (1915-1917, 1933-1992)

The lost land of Caspak (discovered in 1916)

G-8 / Captain Midnight (aka Bruce Hagin Rassendyll aka Jim "Red" Albright, brother of The Shadow, half-brother of The Spider) * (1916-1918 as G-8 / 1931-1950s as Captain Midnight)

The Continental Op (1917-1930) (click here for an in-depth article)

The Red Falcon (Barry Rand) (1917-1918) (click here for in-depth article)

Doc Savage,* (1918, 1931-1949, 1987-1990)

his cousin Pat Savage,* (1931-1949, 1989-1990)

and Doc's assistant Monk Mayfair (nephew of Prof. Challenger) * (1918, 1931-1949, 1987-1990)....

....as well as Doc's other four assistants, Ham Brooks, Renny Renwick (click here for an in-depth article), Long Tom Roberts and Prof. Johnny Littlejohn *** (click here for an in-depth article)

Urania Moriarty aka Patricia Donleavy (daughter of the first Professor Moriarty; mother of Dr. Caber and Carl Peterson) * (1918-1919) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

Peter the Brazen (aka Peter Moore) (1918-1919, 1930-1935)

Jeeves and Bertie Wooster (1919-1920s)

Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (brother of John "Korak" Drummond-Clayton) * (1919-1979) (click here for an in-depth article)

Carl Peterson (grandson of the first Professor James Moriarty) * (1919-1953) (click here for in-depth article)

Irma Peterson (daughter of Dr. Caber, and niece of Carl Peterson) * (1919-1953) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

Hans Stark (1919)

Stephan Orlac (1919)

Baron Wolf Frankenstein (son of Henry Frankenstein) (1919) (click here for an in-depth article)

Ephraim Tutt (1919-1945)

Jimgrim (James Schuyler Grim), Jeff Ramsden, and company (1920-1930) (click here for in-depth article)

Ellery Queen (1920-1971) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

Hareton Ironcastle (1920-1921)

The Picaroon (Martin Dale, brother of Jimmie Dale) (1921-1932) (click here for an in-depth article)

Ludwig Frankenstein (son of Henry Frankenstein) (1921) (click here for an in-depth article)

Dominick Medina (son of the second Professor Moriarty) (1921) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

Edwin Winthrop and Catriona Kaye (1922-1972)

Company Z (Alvin Fog (grandson of Dusty Fog), Mark Scrapton (grandson of the Ysabel Kid), and Rance Smith (grandson of Mark Counter) (1922-1928) (click here for an in-depth article)

Miss Jane Marple (1922, 1930-1970s)

The Invisible Man, Jack Griffin (son of John Hawley Griffin) (1922) (click here for an in-depth article)

Dickson McCunn (1922-1935)

Doctor Anton Zarnak (1922-1967)

The Scarlet Fox (1922-23)

Rick, Evelyn, and Alex O'Connell (1923-1937)

Countess Marya Zaleska (daughter of Dracula) (1923-1998) (click here for in-depth article)

Inspector Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte (son of A.J. Raffles) * (1924-1961) (click here for an in-depth article)

Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy (1924-1980s) (click here for in-depth article)

J.G. Reeder (1924-1932) (click here for an in-depth article)

Peter Blakeney (great-great-grandson of Sir Percy Blakeney) (1924) (click here for an in-depth article)

Hugo Danner (mid-1920s)

Buck Mason (mid-1920s) (click here for an in-depth article)

The Ringer (Henry Arthur Milton) (1925)

Jules de Grandin * (1925-1967) (click here for an in-depth article)

Dr. Anton Phibes (1925-1928)

Charlie Chan (son of Fu Manchu) (1925-1949) (click here for in-depth article)

Jason Gridley (1926-1950)

Sam Spade * (1926-1930s) (click here for an in-depth article)

Recai (1926-1980s)

Philo Vance (1926-1939)

Cosmo Topper (1926-1941)

Richard William Chandos (1927-1949)

Sailor Steve Costigan (1927-1933) (click here for in-depth article)

Biff Bradley (1927) (click here for an in-depth article)

The Hardy Boys (1927-mid 1930s)

Jimmie Cordie and his mercenaries (1928-1935)

The Duke de Richlieu (late 1920s-1950s)

Carson of Venus (1928-1942)

Tailspin Tommy Tompkins (1928-1942)

The Saint (Simon Templar, son of A.J. Raffles) *** (1928-1983) (click here for an in-depth article)

Malay Collins (late 1920s)

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