Monster Mix (game)

Monster Mix
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Key crew
Publisher:	Marvel Comics
Release details
Genre:	Science fiction
Printed in:	DWM 2
Release date:	18 October 1979
Format:	Fiction and puzzle
In-universe puzzles from Doctor Who Magazine
Next →	Planet Puzzle

Monster Mix was an in-universe puzzle published in the second issue of Doctor Who Magazine. Marking the first instalment of DWM's puzzle page, it was a wordsearch of twenty of the Doctor's enemies.

The solution to the puzzle was printed in DWM 3, the following issue.

Summary

Fearing that the weather could be as dreary as most Octobers in Britain tend to be, as an "added bonus" the Fourth Doctor arranges for the "MONSTER MIX" to be added to this week's issue. He hides the names of twenty of his past foes in a "maze of letters" for the readers to find.

Characters

• Fourth Doctor

Notes

• Almost all of the enemies in Monster Mix had been seen at least once on the televised Doctor Who series. The sole exception was "Vega Nexous" which seems to be an original creation for this feature whose history with the Doctor was never elaborated upon, though in DWM 6's A Letter from the Doctor the titular letter was sent from The Vega Nexous Motel.

Continuity

• The established enemies which the Doctor lists and their debuts are as follows:
  • AXON, from The Claws of Axos
  • DALEK, from The Daleks
  • DRACONIAN, from Frontier in Space
  • EXXILON, from Death to the Daleks
  • LINX, from The Time Warrior
  • MACRA, from The Macra Terror
  • MONOID, from The Ark
  • MORBIUS, from The Brain of Morbius
  • MUTT, from The Mutants
  • OGRON, from Day of the Daleks
  • QUARK, from The Dominators
  • SEA DEVIL, from The Sea Devils
  • SENSORITE, from The Sensorites
  • SILURIAN, from Doctor Who and the Silurians
  • VOORD, from The Keys of Marinus
  • WIRRN, from The Ark in Space
  • YETI, from The Abominable Snowmen
  • ZARBI, from The Web Planet
  • ZYGON, from Terror of the Zygons