The Life of Orlando

The Life of Orlando is a comic contained in the Black Dossier, belonging to the comic book The Trump. It details the life of the immortal Orlando from birth in Ancient Greece to the 1940s. The comic is done in the style of the historical stories which appeared in British comics in the 1950s

Appearances

Characters

Aeneas • Ajax • Alexander the Great • Mark Antonio • Ariel • King Arthur • Ascanius • Augustus • Ayesha • Baldrick • Beowulf • Edmund Blackadder • Marguerite Blakeney • Sir Percy Blakeney • Blondel • Brutus of Troy • Daisy Buchanan • Natty Bumppo • Julius Caesar • Caliban •Charlemagne • Thomas Carnacki • Christian • Cleopatra • Corin • Leonardo da Vinci • Janni Dakkar • Mademoiselle de Maupin • Diana • Dido • Eblis • Johannes Faust • Fortunio • Jay Gatsby • Gloriana I of England • Gogmagog • Grendel • Lemuel Gulliver • Helen of Troy • Fanny Hill • King Hrothgar • Prester John • Jormungandr • Lancelot • Little John • Lucian of Samosata • Lurcio • Manto • Memnon • Merlin • Mephistopheles • Moby Dick • Mina Murray • Nausius • Odysseus • Old Bill • Orlando • Robert Owemuch • Pliny the Elder • Prospero • Allan Quatermain • Don Quixote • A. J. Raffles • Ramesses II • Richard the Lionheart • Robin Hood • Romulus and Remus • Semiramis • Siegfried • Sinbad • Spartacus • Amber St. Clair • Christopher Syn • William Tell • Thor • Tiresias • Friar Tuck • Vathek • Xi Wangmu • Wealhþeow • Lu Wo • Monsieur Zenith

Mentioned characters

Achilles • Alexander of Abonoteichus • Haroun Al Raschid • Anchises • Aphrodite • Appolonius of Tyana • Al Wathik Be’llah • James "Biggles" Bigglesworth • Nan Bullen • Caligula • Cladius • Miguel de Cervantes • Doll Common • Edward Face • G-8 • King George • Guinevere • Ginger Hebblethwaite • Heliogabalus • Henry VIII • Adenoid Hynkel • King Jacob the First • Henry Jekyll • Julian • Mehmed the Second • Miranda • Mordred • Morgan Le Fay • King Mu • Nero • Oedipus • Percival • Uther Pendragon • Agatha Runcible • Scheharezade • William Shakespeare • Tiberius • Jack Wilton

Locations

• Earth
  • Abonoteichos (mentioned)
  • Abyssinia
  • Babylon (mentioned)
  • Baghdad
  • Black Sea (mentioned)
  • Blazing World
  • Brobdingnag
  • Carthage
  • China
    • Mount K’un Lun
  • Constantinople
  • Denmark
  • Egypt
    • Alexandria
      • Library of Alexandria
      • Monsters’ Park
  • Fakreddin Valley (mentioned)
  • France
    • Paris
      • Paris Opera
  • Greece
    • Actium
    • Delphi (mentioned)
    • Marathon (mentioned)
    • Thebes
  • Horselberg
  • India
  • Ishtakar (mentioned)
  • Italy
    • Mount Vesuvius
    • Naples
    • Pompei
    • Rome
  • Macedonia
  • Mons
  • Persia (mentioned)
  • Prague
  • Punt
  • Pyrenees
  • Samarah (mentioned)
    • Alkomeri (mentioned)
  • Tibet
    • Mount Karakal
    • Shangri-La
    • So Sa Ling
  • Troy
  • Tyana (mentioned)
  • Uganda
    • Kor
      • Flame of Immortality
  • United Kingdom
    • Agincourt (mentioned)
    • Britain
      • London
    • Cornwall
      • Camelot
    • Mortlake (mentioned)
    • Salisbury Plain (mentioned)
• Hell
• Moon

Groups

• Seven Against Thebes (mentioned)
• Merry Men
• Royal Air Force
• Prospero's Men
• Les Hommes Mystérieux
• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
  • Second Murray Group

Species

• Giants
• Greek gods
• Humans

Items

• The Monolith
• Excalibur

Events

• Trojan War
• Battle of Camlann
• Ragnarok
• Fimbulvinter
• Battle of Agincourt (mentioned)
• French Revolution (mentioned)
• World War I
• World War II