Also included is a 'Tijuana Bible' insert that adapts George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and a 3-D section complete with custom glasses.

However, these prose pieces and inserts are framed by a comic story, in which Mina Harker and Allan Quatermain obtain the Black Dossier itself and are then pursued by government forces.

Wanting to do a source book for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Moore began writing the Black Dossier, expanding the original idea to include numerous different prose sections of different styles from a Fanny Hill "sequel" to a beatnik style story and a comic narrative that frames the Dossier sections.

Moore and O'Neill also took the main characters Mina Murray and Allan 60 years into the future out of fear that the Victorian era was already waning in interest.

Harry Lime, the new M, teams Jimmy up with Emma Night and her uncle, an aged Hugo Drummond, to hunt down Mina and Allan, who are believed to be heading North.

Mina and Allan agree to visit a spaceport on their detour (space-travel technology has flourished since the Martian invasion of Volume II).

At the spaceport, Jimmy, Emma and Hugo find Allan and Mina, who escape via a robot-piloted rocket that references British children's show Fireball XL5.

They also reveal that Jimmy's career is mostly fabricated, that he is a double agent for the United States and that he killed John Night, Emma's father and Hugo's brother.

Mina and Allan successfully return to the mysterious, utopian universe of The Blazing World, where they are reunited with their mutual lover Orlando and have safely hidden the dossier.