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|name = The Eternal Present
|image        = The Eternal Present.jpg
|image= Eternal present.jpg
|series       = [[TV Action|''TVA'' comic stories]]
|series =[[TV Action|''TVA'' comic stories]]
|doctor       = Third Doctor
|doctor = Third Doctor
|companions  = [[Theophilus Tolliver|Theo]]
|enemy = [[Mar-Kom]]
|enemy       = [[Mar-Kom]]
|setting = [[England]], [[1970s]]<br />[[New Britain]], [[3550]]
|setting     = {{il|[[England]], [[1971]]|[[New Britain]], [[3550]]}}
|writer = [[Dennis Hooper]]
|writer       = Dennis Hooper
|artist = [[Harry Lindfield]] and [[Gerry Haylock]]
|artist       = [[Harry Lindfield]] and [[Gerry Haylock]]
|publication = ''[[TV Action]]'' 40-46
|publication = ''[[TV Action]]'' 40-46
|release date = [[20 November (releases)|20 November]] [[1971 (releases)|1971]] - [[1 January (releases)|1 January]] [[1972 (releases)|1972]]
|release date = 20 November 1971 - 1 January 1972
|publisher = Polystyle
|publisher   = Polystyle
|reprint = [[DWCC 4]]
|reprint     = DWCC 4
|reprint2 = [[DWCC 5]]
|reprint2     = DWCC 5
|format = Comic - 7 parts (14 pages)
|format       = Comic
|prev = Backtime (comic story)
|epcount      = 7
|next = Sub Zero (comic story)
|prev         = Backtime (comic story)
}}
|next         = *Sub Zero (comic story){{!}}*Sub Zero
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a [[Third Doctor]] comic story published in ''[[TV Action]]''.
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'''''The Eternal Present''''' was a [[Third Doctor]] comic story published in ''[[TV Action]]''.
 
== Summary ==
== Summary ==
The Doctor has been pursued through time and captured for the "crime" of [[time travel]]. Sentenced to trial by combat, the [[Time Lord]] allies himself with the inventor of [[Earth]]'s first [[time machine]] to discover the true power behind this deadly game.
The [[Third Doctor]] has been pursued through time and captured for the "crime" of [[time travel]]. Taken to [[New Britain]] in [[3550]], the Doctor is sentenced to trial by combat by [[Mar-Kom]], the ruler of New Britain. The [[Time Lord]] allies himself with [[Theophilus Tolliver]], the [[inventor]] of [[Earth]]'s first [[time machine]], to uncover the truth about Mar-Kom.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Third Doctor]]
* [[Third Doctor]]
* [[Theophilus Tolliver]]
* [[Andron (The Eternal Present)|Andron]]
* [[Andron (The Eternal Present)|Andron]]
* [[Mar-Kom]]
* [[Mar-Kom]]
* [[Theophilus Tolliver]]
* [[Technician (The Eternal Present)|Technician]]
* PC [[Ernest Whitehouse]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
* The TARDIS travels the edges of [[Galaxy 884]].
* The [[time police]] can track the Doctor's TARDIS to the [[end of time]].
* The Doctor is referred to as an ex-Time Lord.
* The Doctor uses [[Jupiter]] as an intensive.
* Theo invented his time machine in [[1897]].
* Theo is a friend of [[H. G. Wells]].
* [[St. Paul's Cathedral]] still stands in New London.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
* In a rather unusual bit of intertextuality, Theophilus Tolliver is implied to be the unnamed traveller from [[H.G. Wells]]'s ''[[The Time Machine]]''.
* The Doctor breaks the [[fourth wall]] in the closing frame of the last instalment, saying to the readers: ''"But, of course — he ''[Theo]'' will get home safely! And tell his story to his friend... H.G. Wells!"''
 
=== Original print details ===
 
(Publication with page count and closing captions)
 
* TVA 40 (2 pages) CONTINUED NEXT WEEK!
* TVA 41 (2 pages) More Next Week!
* TVA 42 (2 pages) [No closing caption]
* TVA 43 (2 pages) More next week!
* TVA 44 (2 pages) More next week!
* TVA 45 (2 pages) MORE NEXT WEEK!
* TVA 46 (2 pages) GREAT NEW STORY NEXT WEEK!


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor has been placed on trial [[Second Doctor|before]] for his [[Non-interference policy|actions]] involving time travel, as will he again in the [[Sixth Doctor|future]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games]]'', ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]'')
* The Doctor has been placed on trial before for his actions involving time travel, with his [[second incarnation]]'s [[The Doctor's trial (The War Games)|trial on Gallifrey]] for violating the [[non-interference policy]] being the reason he was an [[exile on Earth]] in the first place. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==
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The Eternal Present was a Third Doctor comic story published in TV Action.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Third Doctor has been pursued through time and captured for the "crime" of time travel. Taken to New Britain in 3550, the Doctor is sentenced to trial by combat by Mar-Kom, the ruler of New Britain. The Time Lord allies himself with Theophilus Tolliver, the inventor of Earth's first time machine, to uncover the truth about Mar-Kom.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • In a rather unusual bit of intertextuality, Theophilus Tolliver is implied to be the unnamed traveller from H.G. Wells's The Time Machine.
  • The Doctor breaks the fourth wall in the closing frame of the last instalment, saying to the readers: "But, of course — he [Theo] will get home safely! And tell his story to his friend... H.G. Wells!"

Original print details[[edit] | [edit source]]

(Publication with page count and closing captions)

  • TVA 40 (2 pages) CONTINUED NEXT WEEK!
  • TVA 41 (2 pages) More Next Week!
  • TVA 42 (2 pages) [No closing caption]
  • TVA 43 (2 pages) More next week!
  • TVA 44 (2 pages) More next week!
  • TVA 45 (2 pages) MORE NEXT WEEK!
  • TVA 46 (2 pages) GREAT NEW STORY NEXT WEEK!

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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