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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: While a large portion of the people met in Hell are fictitious, Allen's travels bring him across numerous notable figures from history. In addition to [[spoiler:being guided around by Benito Mussolini]] and picking up Billy the Kid as a traveling companion, the sinners encountered in the first book include such folks as Jesse James, Henry the Eighth, Vlad Țepeș, L. Ron Hubbard and Al Capone. Benny even meets [[spoiler: his fellow fascist dictator in Creator/AdolfHitler.]] In the second novel, the traveling party includes the poet Sylvia Plath and the radio preacher Aimee McPherson; on the way, they come across Charles Francis Adams preaching to the heretics, J. Edgar Hoover among the Malebranche, numerous WWII military leaders among the evil counselors, Pontius Pilate on his own peregrination, and several others.

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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: While a large portion of the people met in Hell are fictitious, Allen's travels bring him across numerous notable figures from history. In addition to [[spoiler:being guided around by Benito Mussolini]] and picking up Billy the Kid as a traveling companion, the sinners encountered in the first book include such folks as Jesse James, Henry the Eighth, Vlad Țepeș, L. Ron Hubbard and Al Capone. Benny even meets [[spoiler: his fellow fascist dictator in Creator/AdolfHitler.]] In the second novel, the traveling party includes the poet Sylvia Plath and the radio preacher Aimee McPherson; [=McPherson=]; on the way, they come across Charles Francis Adams preaching to the heretics, J. Edgar Hoover among the Malebranche, numerous WWII military leaders among the evil counselors, Pontius Pilate on his own peregrination, and several others.

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