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==Summary==
==Summary==
Drifting lifelessly through space [[Kroton (Cyberman)|Kroton]] the [[Cyberman]] passes through a miasmic cloud that hides a cruiser ship ''The Flying Dutchman 2''. Taken aboard he is recharged by the passengers (including Willoughby, Rolf, Krylic, Leonart and Cassandra). All of them are caught in a timeless existence, bored and seeking a release. Kroton offers to help them and reactivates the robot pilot to take them to a nearby planet and breaking the time field. Unfortunately they had been trapped 628 years and rapidly age to death. Kroton is once again drifting alone in space.  
Drifting lifelessly through space [[Kroton (Cyberman)|Kroton]] the [[Cyberman]] passes through a miasmic cloud that hides a cruiser ship ''The Flying Dutchman 2''. Taken aboard he is recharged by the passengers (including Willoughby, Rolf, Krylic, Leonart and Cassandra). All of them are caught in a timeless existence, bored and seeking a release. Kroton offers to help them and reactivates the robot pilot to take them to a nearby planet and breaking the time field. Unfortunately they had been trapped 628 years and rapidly age to death. Kroton is once again drifting alone in space.


==Characters==
==Characters==
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==Notes==
==Notes==
:* This was the first of the back up strip stories not to be introduced and tailed by the Fourth Doctor as if recounting a story.  
:* This was the first of the back up strip stories not to be introduced and tailed by the Fourth Doctor as if recounting a story.


===Original print details===
===Original print details===
:Publication with page count and closing captions
:Publication with page count and closing captions
# [[DWM Issue 23]] (4) To Be Continued
# [[DWM Issue 23]] (4) To Be Continued
# [[DWM Issue 24]] (4) End
# [[DWM Issue 24]] (4) End


===Reprints===
===Reprints===
:* Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in [[DWUS Issue 16]].
:* Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in [[DWUS Issue 16]].
:* Reprinted by Panini Books in [[The Glorious Dead (graphic novel)]].


==Continuity==
==Continuity==
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==External links==
==External links==
''to be added''
''to be added''
[[Category:Doctor Who Magazine back-up comic stories]]
[[Category:Doctor Who Magazine back-up comic stories]]

Revision as of 16:35, 18 August 2010


Summary

Drifting lifelessly through space Kroton the Cyberman passes through a miasmic cloud that hides a cruiser ship The Flying Dutchman 2. Taken aboard he is recharged by the passengers (including Willoughby, Rolf, Krylic, Leonart and Cassandra). All of them are caught in a timeless existence, bored and seeking a release. Kroton offers to help them and reactivates the robot pilot to take them to a nearby planet and breaking the time field. Unfortunately they had been trapped 628 years and rapidly age to death. Kroton is once again drifting alone in space.

Characters

References

to be added

Notes

  • This was the first of the back up strip stories not to be introduced and tailed by the Fourth Doctor as if recounting a story.

Original print details

Publication with page count and closing captions
  1. DWM Issue 23 (4) To Be Continued
  2. DWM Issue 24 (4) End

Reprints

Continuity

to be added

External links

to be added