Junk-Yard Demon (comic story): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story SMW

|range = DWM comic stories{{!}}DWM Comics

|number in range = 16

|image= DWM 508 Junkyard Deamon Sleeping Cyberman.jpg

|series=[[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]]

|doctor= Fourth Doctor

|companions=  

|enemy= [[Cyberman (Junk-Yard Demon)|CyberMondan]]  

|setting=

|writer= Steve Parkhouse

|artist= [[Mike McMahon]] / [[Adolfo Buylla]]

|editor=

|colourist=

|letterer=

|publication= [[DWM 58]]-[[DWM 59|59]]

|release date= 8 October - 12 November 1981

|publisher= Marvel Comics

|reprint6=Cybermen: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection

|format= Comic

|prev= Doctor Who and the Free-Fall Warriors (comic story)

|next= The Neutron Knights (comic story)

|epcount = 2

== Summary ==

Interstellar scrap dealers have a lucrative business reprogramming dormant [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] into domestic servants, until one prematurely awakens and steals [[the Doctor's TARDIS]].

== Plot ==

[[File:Junkyarddemon01.jpg|thumb|left|The Junk-Yard Demon]]

While the [[Fourth Doctor]] meditates, the free-floating [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] is scooped up by a junk-collecting spaceship, ''[[Drifter]]'', piloted by scrap merchants Flotsam and Jetsam and their windmill-powered robot, Dutch, who tries unsuccessfully to break down the TARDIS for scrap. The Doctor is woken by the noise of a drill and emerges peeved at the disturbance, and annoyed to find a dormant [[Cyberman]] amongst their collection of galactic scrap.

Flotsam and Jetsam have a lucrative side business collecting inert Cybermen, reprogramming them and selling them as butlers to rich folk all over the galaxy. The Doctor accidentally re-activates the Cyberman, who steals the TARDIS with Jetsam inside. As the Doctor, Flotsam and Dutch track the TARDIS in the ''Drifter'', the Cyberman pilots the TARDIS to remote planet [[AS4]], at the site of the wrecked command ship of a long-lost Cyberfleet.

The Cyberman orders Jetsam to restore his long-inactive leader [[Zogron]] to function, with the ambition of rebuilding a Cyber-army that would rule time and space via the TARDIS. Jetsam does what he does best, reactivating Zogron, who then infuriates the Cyberman by offering him either a before-dinner sherry or a gin and tonic. The ''Drifter'' lands nearby, and Dutch destroys the Cyberman by coating it in quick-setting polymer paint. As Flotsam and Jetsam eagerly ponder the plunder available in the wrecked Cyberships, the Doctor leaves in the TARDIS, hoping they never find any [[Dalek]]s...

== Characters ==

* [[Cyberman (Junk-Yard Demon)|Cyberman]]

== Worldbuilding ==

* The Cyberman has the ability to absorb blasts of [[energy weapon]]s and re-direct them back at the attacker.

 

 

 

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