From Hell 

is a graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell, originally

published in serial form from 1989 to 1998. The full collection was published in 1999 by Top
Shelf Productions.
Set during the Whitechapel murders of the late Victorian era, the novel speculates upon the
identity and motives of Jack the Ripper. The novel depicts several true events surrounding the
murders, although portions have been fictionalised, particularly the identity of the killer and the
precise nature and circumstances of the murders.
The title is taken from the first words of the "From Hell" letter, which some authorities believe
was an authentic message sent from the killer in 1888. The collected edition is 572 pages long.
The 2000 and later editions are the most common prints. The comic was loosely adapted into
a film, released in 2001. In 2000, the graphic novel was banned in Australia for several weeks
after customs officers seized copies of the seventh issue from a shipment intended for Quality
Comics.

Development
Moore began developing the plot for From Hell in the late 1980s. Writer Neil Gaiman recalled
Moore calling him up to discuss a television documentary he had just seen about Jack the Ripper,
and then asking for Gaiman's help tracking down "rare and forgotten biographies of possible
Ripper suspects at the British Museum".[1]
From Hell takes as its premise Stephen Knight's theory that the Jack the Ripper murders were
part of a conspiracy to conceal the birth of an illegitimate royal baby fathered by Prince Albert
Victor, Duke of Clarence, slightly modified: the involvement of Walter Sickert is reduced, and
Knight's allegation that the child's mother was a Catholic has been dropped. Knight's theories
have been described as "a good fictional read" whose "conclusions have been disproved
numerous times".[2]