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|enemy= The [[Mandragora Helix]] | |enemy= The [[Mandragora Helix]] | ||
|setting = [[London]], [[1999]] | |setting = [[London]], [[1999]] | ||
|writer= | |writer= Dan Abnett | ||
|artist= [[Lee Sullivan]] and [[Mark Farmer]] | |artist= [[Lee Sullivan]] and [[Mark Farmer]] | ||
|editor= [[John Freeman]] | |editor= [[John Freeman]] | ||
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|publication= [[DWM 169]]-[[DWM 172|172]] | |publication= [[DWM 169]]-[[DWM 172|172]] | ||
|release date= | |release date= 27 December 1990 - 21 March 1991 | ||
|cover date= | |cover date= 23 January - 17 April 1991 | ||
|reprint = The Mark of Mandragora (graphic novel)|The Mark of Mandragora | |reprint = The Mark of Mandragora (graphic novel)|The Mark of Mandragora | ||
|publisher= Marvel Comics | |publisher= Marvel Comics | ||
Revision as of 21:43, 23 July 2023
- You may be looking for the graphic novel collection of the same name.
The Mark of Mandragora was a Seventh Doctor comic strip published in Doctor Who Magazine. It served as a sequel to the television story The Masque of Mandragora, and featured the return of the Mandragora Helix.
Summary
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Plot
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Characters
- Seventh Doctor
- Ace
- Captain Muriel Frost
- Stranks
- Sergeant Jasper Bean
- Lynodd
- Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- Magog
- Locksley
References
- The Brigadier is at a Geneva summit.
- UNIT are trying to negotiate greater powers with the UN.
- By the late 1990s, London had become known as "swinging London" again, having not held the name for thirty years.
- The Doctor says that he has been redecorating the TARDIS.
- When the lightning falls and the Doctor takes out his umbrella, he sings the lyrics to Singin' in the Rain.
Notes
- Throughout the story, a number of epigraphs are contrasted against the events within the panels. These are from: Francis Bacon, Essay on Death; William Shakespeare, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra; John Donne, Song; and Alfonso, King of Castile.
- Ace's earrings are the Starfleet insignia from Star Trek.
- Nicholas Courtney gave permission for the use of his likeness in this and the prelude story Darkness, Falling, on the condition that the Brigadier only appeared for a few frames.
- The story was presented colourised in the graphic novel The Mark of Mandragora.
Continuity
- Ace briefly encounters Magog, last of the Malvelius, still trapped in the Doctor's TARDIS and pleading for release. (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Iron Legion)
- The Brigadier recognises the Seventh Doctor from the "last time [he] saw him" during the Carbury Incident. (TV: Battlefield)
- The Doctor states that the Mandragora Helix aligns with Earth every five centuries. (TV: The Masque of Mandragora)
- Frost states that UNIT have been operating under a greater degree of public transparency since aliens became a public fact after the Gantic invasion (COMIC: Invaders from Gantac!) and the Availlon fiasco. (TV: Battlefield)
- Due to UNIT's new public and global position, Frost sows the seeds for the later organisation Foreign Hazard Duty, to operate in a secret position. (COMIC: Echoes of the Mogor!)
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