The Unwritten (Volume 1) Issue 05

Synopsis
In the India of the British Raj, young journalist and would-be novelist Rudyard Kipling gets an offer he can't refuse. It's an offer that will catapult him to fame, fortune and inexorable destruction. The secret history of the Unwritten begins in this stand-alone story...

Characters

 * Rudyard Kipling
 * Mark Twain (Sam Clemens)
 * Locke
 * Mister Wheeler
 * Edward Kay Robinson
 * Oscar Wilde
 * James Whistler
 * Lord Alfred Bruce "Bosie" Douglas
 * Carrie Balestier
 * Josephine Kipling
 * Elsie Kipling
 * John Kipling
 * Pullman
 * Andrew Bonar Law
 * Wilson Taylor
 * Pete

Locations

 * University of Oxford, England
 * Lahore, Punjab (now in Pakistan)
 * South Africa
 * London, England
 * United States of America

Cultural

 * Rudyard Kipling
 * Just So Stories
 * The Whale
 * The Mariner
 * The 'Stute Fish
 * The Jungle Book
 * Mowgli
 * Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
 * Nag
 * Shere Khan
 * Kotick (?)

Items

 * Kipling's journal

Others

 * Cabal
 * Leviathan

Links

 * http://www.vertigocomics.com/comics/the-unwritten-2009/the-unwritten-5
 * http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Unwritten_Vol_1_5
 * http://www.comicvine.com/the-unwritten-5-how-the-whale-became/4000-170404/