Cover Illustration of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol 1, #6 Image available at: http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/47378076020.6.GIF The text reads: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Through Trusting in a Portly Gent, Our Chums Have an Embarrassment Meeting Miss Murray on the pier, stout Mister Bond cooed in her ear "You must leave for a foreign land, there to enlist a doughty band Who'll serve our country and our Queen! To Egypt, now, by Submarine!" So, aided by a foreign gent (a Naval captain), off she went! In Egypt from the addict's pain, they rescued Mr. Quatermain. Taking him with them 'neath the sea as they embarked for Gay Paree! In Paris, they were satisfied to nab the beastly Edward Hyde Then sail him back to Albion fair, awaiting further orders there. They found their last chum in -- what fun! -- a girl's school in North Edmonton! With Griffin taken firm in hand, our extraordinary band Discover the outrageous plan of the crafty Johnny Chinaman Who's stolen Blighty's Cavorite -- a metal with the power of flight! In Limehouse, at the arch-fiends lair, they end his mastery of the air, And see the mystery element returned to England's Government. In river-tunnels deep as night, they seek the fearful Cavorite So that they can at once abscond with it to give to Mr. Bond. The chubby fellow's filled with glee! "You've all done jolly well!" says he. "Take this reward and have some nosh, a slap-up meal at Maison Posh! The Cavorite, with great relief, I'll give to Mr. "M". my chief. He'll be delighted, I just know! Still, simply must dash! Cheerio!" But wait! What's this? "M", all this time, was the Napoleon of Crime! Professor Moriarty cries "Tonight, my Chinese rival dies! I'll simply bomb East London flat, see what the blighter makes of that!" Horrors! How can our comrades win? To learn the answer, seek within...