THE WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE

Cast of Characters

PART III

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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Dorus Noel (grandson of Dr. James Noel) (early 1930s) (click here for an in-depth article)

Steve Harrison (1930s-1960s)

Brigadier Donald Ffellowes (1930s)

Nate Heller (1930s-1950s)

Barney Baxter (1930s-1940s)

Bill Barnes (1930s-1940s)

Nancy Drew (1930-late 1930s)

Sir Henry Merrivale *** (1930-1960s) (click here for an in-depth article)

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

The Invisible Man, Geoffrey Radcliffe (1931-1948) and Frank Griffin, Sr., (brother of Jack Griffin, son of John Hawley Griffin) (1931) (click here for an in-depth article)

Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund (1931-1979) (click here for in-depth article)

Dick Tracy (1931-present)

Gordon Craigie and Department Z / Dr. Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey and Department Z-5 (1932-1975)

Drury Lane (1932-1933) (click here for an in-depth article)

Murdere Legendre (1932)

Jimmy Allen (1933-1936)

Albert Campion (1933-1970) (click here for an in-depth article)

Philip Marlowe (grandson of Ned Land) * (1933-1959) (click here for an in-depth article)

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

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

The Wolf Man (Lawrence Stewart Talbot) (1933-1998) (click here for an in-depth article)

Dr. Gideon Fell *** (1933-1960s)

Dr. Vitas Verdegast and Hjalmar Poelzig (1933)

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

Perry Mason (son of Randolph Mason) (1933-1973) (click here for an in-depth article)

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

Nick and Nora Charles (1934)

Don Winslow of the Navy (1934-1955)

Terry Lee and Pat Ryan (Terry and the Pirates) (1934-1973) (click here for an in-depth article)

Mandrake the Magician (1934-present)

Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (1934-1953)

The Werewolf of London (Wilfred Glendon) (1934) (click here for an in-depth article)

Doctor Death (Rance Mandarin) (1935)

Curtius Parry (1935)

"Crash" Corrigan (1935)

The fifth Zorro (James Vega, great grandson of Diego de la Vega) (1935)

Mr. Moto (son of Wolf Larsen) * (1935-1972) (click here for in-depth article)

Dr. Janos Rukh (1935) (click here for an in-depth article)

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

The Mysterious Wu Fang (1935-1936)

Dan Fowler (1935-1953)

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

The Invisible Man, Robert Griffin (son of John "Jack" Hawley Griffin) and Dr. Peter Drury (1935) (click here for an in-depth article)

Robert Blake (great nephew of Phileas Fogg) * (1935) (click here for in-depth article)

The first Green Hornet (Britt Reid, great nephew of John Reid, The Lone Ranger) & Ikano Kato (1936-1945)

Dr. Yen Sin (1936)

Dol Bonner (1936)

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

The Twilight Avenger (Reese Chambers) (1937)

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)

The first Batman (Bruce Wayne) (1937-1959) and Robin (Richard Grayson) (1940-1949) (click here for an in-depth article)

Click Rush, The Gadget Man (1937-1943)

Norgil the Magician (1937-1943)

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

Jake Cutter and company (Tales of the Gold Monkey) (1938)

Mike Shayne, Sr. (1938-early 1960s) (click here for an in-depth article)

Captain Gravity (Joshua Jones) (1938-1940)

Harold Shea and Reed Chalmers (1938-1952) (click here for an in-depth article)

Yarko the Great (1938-1939)

Creighton Holmes (grandson of Sherlock and probable son of Raffles Holmes) (1938)

The Rocketeer (Cliff Secord) (1938)

Judge Pursuivant (1938-1963)

Llana of Gathol (granddaughter of John Carter) (1938-present?)

Dr. Elwin Ransom (1938-1946)

The Avenger (Richard Henry Benson, great nephew of Phileas Fogg) * (1938-1987)

The Invisible Woman (Kitty Carroll) (1938) (click here for an in-depth article)

Nellie Gray (daughter of Tarzan and Jane) (1938-1971) (click here for an in-depth article)

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, here, and here for in-depth articles)

Professor Horatio "Pimpernel" Smith (son of Sir Denis Nayland Smith) (1939) (click here for an in-depth article)

Dr. Alexei Zorka (1939)

El Carim (1939-1940)

 The Black Bat (Tony Quinn) (1939-1953)

Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner (1939-1954) (click here for an in-depth article)

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

Zigomar II (1939)

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

Doctor Joanna Dare (1939-1945)

Cash Gorman (The Wizard) (1940-41)

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

Doc Harker (1940)

The Scarlet Wizard (Don Diavolo) (1940)

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

The Spirit (Denny Colt) (1940-1952)

Alphabet Hicks (1940)

Captain America (Steve Rogers) (1941-1945, 1965-?) and Bucky Barnes (not shown) (1941-1945) (click here and here for in-depth articles)

Tecumseh Fox (1941)

Blackhawk (1941-mid 1950s)

Plastic Man (Eel O'Brian) (1941-1949) (click here for an in-depth article)

The Invisible Agent (Frank Griffin, Jr., son of Jack Griffin, nephew of Frank Griffin, Sr., and grandson of John "Jack" Hawley Griffin) (1941-1942) (click here for an in-depth article)

The Angel Detective (1941)

Wonder Woman (1941-1950s) (click here for an in-depth article)

John Thunstone (1942-1964)

Lucius Leffing (1942-1979)

Colonel Nick Fury (1942-1945)

The Unknown Soldier (1942-1945)

Sgt. Rock and Easy Company (1942-1958)

Inspector Roger West (1942-1978)

Silver John (1944-1967)

Lew Archer (grandson -- or great nephew? -- of Professor Challenger) * (1946-1976) (click here for an in-depth article)

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1946-1990) 

Paul Janus "Kickaha" Finnegan (great nephew of Phileas Fogg) * (1946-1992)

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

Frederick Frankenstein (son of Wolf Frankenstein) and the sixth Frankenstein Monster (1948) (click here for an in-depth article)

Captain Zero (Lee Allyn) (1949)

Patrick Butler (1949-1956)

The Invisible Man, Tommy Nelson (1949) (click here for an in-depth article)

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