Alphonse Moreau

Doctor Alphonse Moreau was a notorious scientist.

Experiments
At the age of 19, Moreau bred humans and animals to create hybrids, which he housed on his secret island. Later, British Intelligence sent Fu Manchu's son to investigate Moreau's experiments on hippopotami and snakes in the Congo, which he believed here funded by his father. This investigation culminated in the Um Bongo report. (PROSE: The Beasthouse)

Legacy
A "eugenics boutique" called the Beasthouse opened in 1897, utilising "the techniques pioneered by Dr Alphonse Moreau" to allow wealthy customers "to have their favourite servants cross-bred with their pets". However, it did not seem to have any involvement from Doctor Moreau himself.

Additionally, H. G. Wells wrote a book about Moreau's career, but he ommitted information about Moreau's age and motivations (which, still according to Fu Manchu's son, boiled down to the idea that "monkey-people would be, like, really cool"). (PROSE: The Beasthouse)

In the Land of Fiction
Doctor Moreau as depicted by Wells was one of fiction's most notorious villains. As such, he existed within the Land of Fiction, where he was a member of the Sisyphean Society's senior circle. One of his humanised dogs served as a doorman and errant-boy for the Society, and greeted when he visited the Society. Like the other villains, he was ultimately destroyed by the Master on this occasion. (COMIC: Character Assassin)

Behind the scenes
Dr Moreau is the title character of H. G. Wells's novel. He has no known first name in the original book. Notably, The Beasthouse gives him a French first name ("Alphonse"), implying that the character is himself French, whereas, in Character Assassin, he calls the Phantom of the Opera "Frenchman" as an insult, suggesting he is not himself French.