The Fires Down Below (comic story)

The Fires Down Below
Main character(s):	Major Whitaker
Featuring:	UNIT
Main enemy:	Quark, and Dominators
Main setting:	Rekjavik, Iceland, 1984
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Marvel Comics]]
Editor:	Alan McKenzie
Writer:	John Peel
Artist:	John Stokes
Letterer:	No credit given
Release details
Printed in:	Doctor Who Magazine Issue 64
Release date:	May 1982
Format:	1 part / 4 pages - Black and White
DWM backup comic stories
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Summary

On Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's orders, Major Whitaker and her UNIT team inspect caverns with Dr Iskander to find the cause of sudden seismic activity. They find Dominator Haag and his Quarks on a quest to use the Earth's core as a power source for the Dominators' star fleet. Using the Dominators' own equipment, Dr Iskander and the UNIT team ensure the spacecraft, Dominator and Quarks are destroyed in a volcanic eruption.

Characters

• Major Whitaker
• Dr Iskander
• Haag
• Quarks

References

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Notes

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Original print details

Publication with page count and closing captions

1. DWM 64 (4)

Reprints

• Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in DW84 22.
• Reprinted in B&W in DWM 181 as a filler when the ongoing Doctor Who comic strip (Evening's Empire) failed to meet the deadline.
• An additional comment is added to the DWM 181 reprint from the Revisionist Ed (John Freeman) referring to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart who is "often called out of retirement in emergencies."
• A closing panel was added to the final frame reading "Evening's Empire returns next issue..." – but it didn't!

Continuity

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Timeline

• The Fires Down Below occurs after The Five Doctors.

External links

• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Fires Down Below at The Whoniverse