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|comic name= K-9’s Finest Hour
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|series= [[Doctor Who Magazine comic strips|Doctor Who]] -<BR> [[Back-up Comic Strip Stories]]
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|series=[[DWM backup comic stories|''DWM'' backup comic stories]]
|number=  
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|doctor= [[Fourth Doctor]] very minor appearance
|main character= [[K9 Mark II]]
|companions= [[K-9]] -
|featuring= [[Fourth Doctor]]
|enemy= Firandel and Rolgot
|enemy= [[Rolgot]]
|year= Unspecified
|setting= [[Yamado]]
|editor= [[Dez Skinn]]
|editor= [[Dez Skinn]]
|writer= [[Steve Moore]]
|writer= Steve Moore
|artist= [[Paul Neary]]
|artist= [[Paul Neary]]
|colourist= [[Paul Vyse]] for reprint [[DWCC]] Issue 25
|colourist= [[Paul Vyse]] for reprint [[DWCC 25]]
|lettering= no credit given  
|letterer= no credit given
|publication_title= [[Doctor Who Weekly]] [[DWM Issue 12|Issue 12]]
|publication= ''[[Doctor Who Weekly]]'' [[DWM 12|Issue 12]]
|publication_dates= 2nd January [[1980]]
|release date= 27 December 1979
|publisher= [[Marvel Comics]]
|publisher= Marvel Comics
|format= B&W 1 part / 4 pages
|reprint = DWCC 25
|previous story= [[ The Stolen TARDIS]]
|format= Comic
|next story= [[Warlord of the Ogrons]]
|epcount = 1
|prev= The Stolen TARDIS (comic story)
|next= Warlord of the Ogrons (comic story)
|series2 = ''DWM's'' "[[Stripped for action?|Stripped for action? order]]"
|prev2 = City of the Damned (comic story)
|next2 = The Two-Timer (short story)
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'''''K-9's Finest Hour''''' was a comic story printed in ''[[Doctor Who Weekly]]'' [[DWM 12|issue 12]]. It was written by [[Steve Moore]]. It featured the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[K9 Mark II]].


==Summary==
== Summary ==
A gravatronic tractor beam is used to capture the [[TARDIS]] but instead of locking onto [[the Doctor]], [[K-9]] is kidnapped instead. Firandel and Rolgot are behind the botched kidnap (for the [[Sontaran]]s). K-9 realises their intention to kidnap and kill the Doctor because of the lack of air on his expected arrival and overpowers his ‘hosts’ before the Doctor and TARDIS arrive in safety to collect him.
A gravatronic [[tractor beam]] is used to capture [[the TARDIS]], but accidentally locks on to [[K9 Mark II|K9]] instead of [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]], kidnapping the robot. [[Firandel]] and [[Rolgot]] are behind the botched kidnap, working for the [[Sontaran]]s. K9 realises their intention to kidnap and kill the Doctor because of the lack of air on his expected arrival and overpowers his "hosts" before the Doctor and the TARDIS arrive in safety to collect him.


==Characters==
== Characters ==
*[[The Doctor]]
* [[Fourth Doctor]]
*[[K-9]]
* [[K9 Mark II]]
* [[Rolgot]]
* [[Firandel]]


==Original Print Details <br> (Publication with page count and closing captions)==
== Worldbuilding ==
# [[DWM Issue 12]] (4) The End.
* Firandel tries to capture the Doctor when [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] travels past [[Yamado]] in the [[Crab Nebula]].
* Firandel and Rolgot have been hired to kill the Doctor by the [[Sontaran]]s.


==Reprints==
== Notes ==
:* B&W reprint in [[DWMS Summer 1980]]
* This back up strip is introduced by the Fourth Doctor, who comments on K9's absence from ''[[Doctor Who and the Iron Legion (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Iron Legion]]'' and ''[[City of the Damned (comic story)|City of the Damned]]''.
:* Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in [[DWUS]] (Issue)
:* Coloured and reprinted in [[DWCC]] (Issue 25)


==Notes==
=== Original print details ===
:* This back up strip is introduced by the Fourth Doctor.  
:Publication with page count and closing captions
# [[DWM 12]] (4) The End.


==References==
=== Reprints ===
''to be added''  
* B&W reprint in ''[[DWMS Summer 1980]]''
:* Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in ''[[Marvel Premiere]]'' [[MP 58|Issue 58]]
:* Coloured and reprinted in ''[[Doctor Who Classic Comics]]'' [[DWCC 25|Issue 25]]


==Continuity==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
''to be added''


==External Links==
{{DWM backups}}
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[[Category:Doctor Who Magazine back-up comics stories]]
[[Category:DWM backup comic stories]]
[[Category:Doctor Who Magazine comics stories]]
[[Category:Fourth Doctor DWM comic stories]]
[[Category:K9 comic stories]]
[[Category:1979 comic stories]]
[[Category:One part comics]]

Latest revision as of 22:22, 15 July 2024

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K-9's Finest Hour was a comic story printed in Doctor Who Weekly issue 12. It was written by Steve Moore. It featured the Fourth Doctor and K9 Mark II.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

A gravatronic tractor beam is used to capture the TARDIS, but accidentally locks on to K9 instead of the Doctor, kidnapping the robot. Firandel and Rolgot are behind the botched kidnap, working for the Sontarans. K9 realises their intention to kidnap and kill the Doctor because of the lack of air on his expected arrival and overpowers his "hosts" before the Doctor and the TARDIS arrive in safety to collect him.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

Publication with page count and closing captions
  1. DWM 12 (4) The End.

Reprints[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added