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{{Infobox Story

|image= Bringer of darkness.jpg

|number=  

|doctor= Second Doctor

|companions= [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Victoria Waterfield|Victoria]]

|enemy= [[Dalek]]s

|setting= A forest; [[England]]

|editor= [[Gary Russell]]

|writer= [[Warwick Gray]]

|artist= [[Martin Geraghty]]  

|colourist=  

|letterer= [[Simon Weston]]

|publication= [[DWMS Summer 1993]]  

|release date= [[1993 (releases)|1993]]

|publisher= Marvel Comics

|format= BW comic - 7 pages

|series         = ''DWMS'' comic stories

|prev           = Flashback (comic story)

|next           = Are You Listening? (comic story)

}}'''''Bringer of Darkness''''' was a [[Second Doctor comic stories|Second Doctor comic story]] first published in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''.

Narrated through Victoria's diary entry, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria land on a peaceful planet, with Victoria noting that it is a nice change of pace. Unfortunately, the trio soon encounter a patrol of Daleks. It appears that a Dalek spaceship has crashed on the planet, and its crew of three are trying to build a beacon to summon help.

The Doctor resolves to stop them. As Victoria watches from hiding, Jamie distract the Daleks by setting off fireworks and causing them to investigate. He and the Doctor then board the beacon, and begin opening all the access panels. Soon the Daleks see the pair, but are unable to fire upon them for fear of damaging the now-exposed communications equipment.

The Doctor taunts the Daleks, mentioning that he had hoped they had finally been vanquished. He asks about the fate of the humanised Daleks on Skaro; the patrol responds that all were destroyed and the Emperor reigns supreme. The Daleks realise who they are talking to, that only the Doctor, the "Ka Faraq Gatri", would know of the humanised Daleks existence. But before they can open fire the Doctor activates the beacon. He has redirected the electromagnetic pulse outwards rather than upwards, frying the circuitry in the Daleks' casings and brutally killing the mutants inside.

== References ==

* Victoria says [[Edward Waterfield|her father]] referred to the Daleks as abominations.

* The [[Dalek]]s know of the Doctor as [[Aliases of the Doctor#The Ka Faraq Gatri|the Ka Faraq Gatri]].

* The [[Dalek Emperor]] and the [[Humanised Dalek]]s are mentioned by the Daleks.

* The crashed Dalek ship appears to be a [[Dalek flying saucer]]. It uses ion-drive thrusters.

* Victoria compares the laboring Daleks to [[ant]]s.

* A [[Kaled mutant]] is disgorged from one of the Dalek shells.

* Beacon is spelled "becon" on pages 2 and 3. The American spelling "Humanized" is used.

* According to the Daleks, their [[Great Civil War|civil war]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]'') ended in the termination of the rebel [[Humanised Dalek]]s. The [[Dalek Emperor]] is still alive. [[Eighth Doctor|The Doctor]] would learn some of the humanised Daleks had left [[Skaro]] in the chaos of the war's end. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Children of the Revolution (comic story)|Children of the Revolution]]'')

* While things are peaceful, Victoria welcomes the change from "the horrors of the [[London Underground]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear]]'')

* Victoria Waterfield's journal entry occurs after [[TV]]: ''[[Fury from the Deep]]''.