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had I ventured to don it, would have slipped over me entirely and rested on my shoulders. He had the face and beard, which I associate with an Assyrian bull; the former florid, the latter so black as almost to have a suspicion of blue, spade-shaped and rippling down over his chest. The hair was peculiar, plastered down in front in a long, curving wisp over his massive forehead. The eyes were blue-grey under great black tufts, very clear, very critical, and very masterful. A huge spread of shoulders and a chest like a barrel were the other parts of him which appeared above the table, save for two enormous hands covered with long black hair. This and a bellowing, roaring, rumbling voice made up my first impression of the notorious Professor Challenger.
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miles. In the spring of 1921, American specialist in artesian wells Mr Peerless Jones is engaged to plunge his drilling rod a further hundred feet into the apparently-living protoplasmic substance that was revealed at the bottom of the shaft. Challenger hopes through this experiment to prove that the Earth is a living organism that sustains its vitality from the ether of outer space. Preparations are ready by Tuesday 21 June 1921, and the drill breaches the tissue, producing a loud scream and unleashing a geyser of a protective tar-like secretion, accompanied by global volcanic activity. It is the day "When the World Screamed".
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sells his London home and rents an apartment on the third floor in Victoria West Gardens, London. Challenger's friend and biographer, the journalist Edward 'Ted' Dunn Malone, marries Enid Challenger, the Professor's daughter, in the summer of 1927. Malone was born in Ireland and achieved some fame in rugby football at international level for Ireland before a career in journalism at the
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The death of Jessica Challenger affects her husband profoundly. Professor Challenger undertakes an investigation into psychic phenomena after Ted Malone and Enid Challenger's reports on spiritualism appear in the Daily Gazette in October 1926. Lord John Roxton, Malone, and the Reverend Charles Mason,
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Some months later, Challenger and Malone are the last people to meet the Latvian inventor Theodore Nemor, who claimed to have discovered the physics of disintegrating and then reassembling matter. Nemor apparently seeks competing bids from the British and Soviet governments to buy "The Disintegration
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His appearance made me gasp. I was prepared for something strange, but not for so overpowering a personality as this. It was his size, which took one's breath away – his size and his imposing presence. His head was enormous, the largest I have ever seen upon a human being. I am sure that his top hat,
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Challenger marries Jessica—'Jessie'—and the couple settles at 14 Enmore Gardens, Enmore Park, Kensington, London. After his adventures in South America Challenger and his wife purchase The Briars, in Rotherfield, Sussex, as a second home. Later, following his wife's death from influenza, Challenger
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incident of 27 to 28 August 1911. Challenger interprets a shift in Fraunhofer's light diffraction lines to predict that the Earth is passing through a deadly interstellar cloud of ether. By breathing oxygen from cylinders brought to the house earlier, Challenger, his wife and friends avoid falling
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Challenger is also a pretentious and self-righteous scientific jack-of-all-trades. Although considered by Malone's editor, Mr McArdle, to be "just a homicidal megalomaniac with a turn for science", his ingenuity can be counted upon to solve any problem or get out of any unsavoury situation, and be
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Challenger is able to pursue his scientific interests independently as a result of a bequest by the rubber millionaire Betterton. He purchases an estate on Hengist Down near to his Sussex home and engages construction firm Morden & Company to begin sinking a vertical shaft to a depth of eight
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in 1892 and is promoted within a year to assistant keeper in the Comparative Anthropology Department. He holds a professorship in Zoology and is elected President of the Zoological Institute in London. Several of his inventions are successfully applied in industry and bring him additional income.
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There have been several other comic adaptations of Professor Challenger's exploits, but none that were particularly widespread and well known. A descendant of Professor Challenger, named Darwin Challenger, is a minor character in Valiant's
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further. Challenger joins the investigation ostensibly to demonstrate the fallacies of psychic research but becomes convinced of the reality of intercourse with the spirits of the dead and announces his conversion in a polemic carried by
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a former Church of England exorcist who took up Spiritualism, visits a haunted house at Dryfont in Derbyshire. An apparition at the house convince the two friends of the reality of the spirit world and they set out to explore
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A summons issued for Wednesday 17 November places the story in 1920 or 1926; the later date is more appropriate given the fact that Challenger’s wife is already dead for some years at the time of the story. A. C. Doyle,
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In this sequel Professor Summerlee, Lord Roxton and the narrator Malone accompany Challenger on a journey to the moon, in a desperate bid to save the people of Ell Ka-Mar, who have crowned Challenger their
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comics, first appearing in issue #7. He bears a strong resemblance to his ancestor and makes numerous references to events in the Lost World. Professor Challenger and his companions are also referenced in
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An invitation for Tuesday 21 July places the story in 1921 or 1927; since Mrs Challenger is still alive in the story the earlier date is more plausible; A. C. Doyle, "When the World Screamed", in
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According to Malone's diary, Challenger's expedition is deep in Amazonia on Tuesday 18 August, which places the year as 1908. In the story, Summerlee is said to be aged 66 and according to
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sure to offend and insult many people in the process. He is also seen as extremely vain by his colleagues: Edward Malone says that "he is convinced, of course, that he is destined for
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alien takes on the physical form of Professor Challenger, believing him to be a real-life Earth scientist, and is then forced to remain in this form for the rest of the novel.
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The story is set three years after adventure to the Lost World, but a date of Friday 27 August would place the story in either 1909, 1915, 1920 or 1926. A. C. Doyle,
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and one of Holmes' old enemies. Holmes is the hero, but Challenger plays a major part. It is mentioned that Challenger helped Holmes solve the case of the
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In July 1908, Malone joins Challenger, the 66-year-old Mr Summerlee (c. 1842–1925), Professor of Comparative Anatomy, and the explorer and mountaineer
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into catalepsy over the several hours the event lasted. It appears as though all animal life on the planet expired but within 28 hours all recovered.
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was the first person to portray Professor Challenger, dressing and making up as the professor for a photograph he wanted included in
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was called upon to locate the vanished, seemingly kidnapped, Professor Challenger. The story also was reprinted in the anthology,
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Like Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger was based on a real person—in this case, two people: an explorer named
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unlike any other. Not an adaptation, this is a complete re-imagining of the story set on an alien planet.
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and Wade Wellman. A slightly anachronistic romp, in which Sherlock Holmes and Challenger oppose
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in the early 1999 cable-TV movie adaptation and the subsequent 1999–2002 television series
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opens with the young Conan Doyle's attendance at a lantern slide lecture by famed explorer
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he dies in Naples the year previous to the events therein described; see A. C. Doyle,
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Three years later, the friends re-assemble in Challenger’s Sussex home to witness
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in the 2019 short film "Professor Challenger & The Disintegration Machine"
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Together with "The Disintegration Machine" and "When the World Screamed"
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had no such qualms and featured the image in the first book edition.
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Machine" at the time of his unexplained disappearance from London.
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Professor Challenger is a major supporting character in the novel
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in a radio-style audio cassette/compact disc adaptation from
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Challenger makes a guest appearance in the 3rd Plateau of
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Since then, the following actors have played the role:
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Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
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Index

George Henry Challenger
The Lost World

Harry Rountree
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Poison Belt
The Strand Magazine
Arthur Conan Doyle
Wallace Beery
Claude Rains
John Rhys-Davies
Patrick Bergin
Peter McCauley
Bob Hoskins
Bruce Boxleitner
Scottish
fantasy
science fiction
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
aggressive
Percy Fawcett
William Rutherford
FRS
MD
DSc
Largs
Largs Academy
University of Edinburgh
British Museum

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