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|enemy        = [[CyberNeomorph]]
|enemy        = [[CyberNeomorph]]
|setting      = [[Sylvaniar]]
|setting      = [[Sylvaniar]]
|writer      = [[Alan McKenzie]]
|writer      = Alan McKenzie
|artist      = [[John Ridgway]]
|artist      = [[John Ridgway]]
|editor      = [[Sheila Cranna]]
|editor      = [[Sheila Cranna]]
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|letterer    = [[Annie Halfacree]]
|letterer    = [[Annie Halfacree]]
|publication  = [[DWM 109]]
|publication  = [[DWM 109]]
|release date = [[16 January (releases)|16 January]] [[1986 (releases)|1986]]
|release date = 16 January 1986
|publisher    = Marvel Comics
|publisher    = Marvel Comics
|format      = Comic
|format      = Comic
|reprint      = DWMAC 1
|reprint      = DWMAC 1
|reprint2    = DWCC 16
|reprint2    = DWCC 16
|reprint3    = The World Shapers (graphic novel)
|reprint3     = DWCS4 1
|reprint4     = The World Shapers (graphic novel)
|reprint5    = Cybermen: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection
|epcount      = 1
|epcount      = 1
|prev        = Exodus (comic story)
|prev        = Exodus (comic story)
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* [[Verdeghast]]
* [[Verdeghast]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Doctor compares Doctor Kravaal to [[Boris Karloff]].
* The Doctor compares Doctor Kravaal to [[Boris Karloff]].
* The Doctor exclaims "Great [[Gallifrey]]!" after meeting Kravaal.  
* The Doctor exclaims "Great [[Gallifrey]]!" after meeting Kravaal.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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* As an in-joke, artist [[John Ridgway]] drew himself as Director Rukh being strangled by a Cyberman in the closing frame.
* As an in-joke, artist [[John Ridgway]] drew himself as Director Rukh being strangled by a Cyberman in the closing frame.
* When the Doctor introduces himself to Dr. Kravaal, Kravaal asks, "Doctor Who?" (to which the Doctor playfully responds, "Quite!"), a common in-[[joke]] of the [[Doctor Who|franchise]] from its namesake.
* When the Doctor introduces himself to Dr. Kravaal, Kravaal asks, "Doctor Who?" (to which the Doctor playfully responds, "Quite!"), a common in-[[joke]] of the [[Doctor Who|franchise]] from its namesake.
=== Reprints ===
* [[DWCC 16]]
* ''[[Doctor Who Classics]]'' series 4 issue 1
* [[The World Shapers (graphic novel)|''The World Shapers'' Graphic Novel]]


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor briefly recounts the events of the fleeing [[Farmer|farmers]] aboard [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] and missing [[Peasant|peasants]] to Krogh that lead him to end up in the locked room with Professor [[Verdeghast]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Exodus (comic story)}})
* The Doctor briefly recounts the events of the fleeing [[farmer]]s aboard [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] and missing [[peasant]]s to Krogh that lead him to end up in the locked room with Professor [[Verdeghast]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Exodus (comic story)}})


== External links ==
== External links ==

Latest revision as of 20:56, 12 February 2024

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You may be looking for issue five of The Forgotten.

Revelation! was a Sixth Doctor comic published in Doctor Who Magazine. It was loosely connected to the previous strip, Exodus, and led directly into Genesis!.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the castle on Sylvaniar, Professor Verdeghast is strangled from behind by an unseen figure who steals his notebook. Shortly afterwards, the Sixth Doctor, Frobisher and Peri Brown arrive in the professor's chamber in the TARDIS to investigate the disappearances they learned about recently. Krogh enters with guards and imprisons them on suspicion of murdering the professor.

Krogh reveals that a Dr Polezig was killed the day before and frees the Doctor to assist his murder investigation while his companions remain imprisoned. Searching Verdeghast's chamber, the Doctor learns that Verdeghast's research is missing and that he was not killed by a living being. Dr Kravaal, a horribly scarred geneticist with an eyepatch, comes looking for Verdeghast and they send him away. Then Dr Sovak enters, crying for help. His neck bears the marks of an attacker like the one who killed Verdeghast. They leave Sovak to report to Director Rukh and find him in his office being strangled by a Cyberman with one human arm.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor compares Doctor Kravaal to Boris Karloff.
  • The Doctor exclaims "Great Gallifrey!" after meeting Kravaal.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Following the theme of biblical titling, as begun in Exodus, this story is named after the Book of Revelation in the Bible, the final book.
  • As an in-joke, artist John Ridgway drew himself as Director Rukh being strangled by a Cyberman in the closing frame.
  • When the Doctor introduces himself to Dr. Kravaal, Kravaal asks, "Doctor Who?" (to which the Doctor playfully responds, "Quite!"), a common in-joke of the franchise from its namesake.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor briefly recounts the events of the fleeing farmers aboard his TARDIS and missing peasants to Krogh that lead him to end up in the locked room with Professor Verdeghast. (COMIC: Exodus [+]Loading...["Exodus (comic story)"])

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