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|comic name= Star Tigers
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|series= [[Doctor Who Magazine comic strips|Doctor Who]] -<BR> [[Back-up Comic Strip Stories]]
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|number=  
|image = Star tigers 1.jpg
|doctor= Not Applicable
|series=[[DWM backup comic stories]]
|companions= Not Applicable -
|main character= [[Abslom Daak]]  
|enemy= [[Sontaran]]
|featuring= Salander (Star Tigers)
|year=
|featuring2= Harma
|editor= [[Des Skin]]
|featuring3= Vol Mercurius{{!}}Mercurius
|writer= [[Steve Moore]]
|featuring4= Taiyin
|artist= [[Dillon]] [[DWM]] issues 27,28 and 29 [[Lloyd]] [[DWM]] issue 30
|enemy= [[Axiron]], [[Kill-Mech]]s, [[Dalek]]s
|setting= [[Draconia]], [[26th century]]<br>[[Paradise (planet)|Paradise]], [[26th century]]<br>[[Dispater]], [[26th century]]
|editor= [[Dez Skinn]]
|writer= Steve Moore
|artist= [[Steve Dillon]] [[DWM]] issues 27, 28 and 29 [[David Lloyd]] [[DWM]] issue 30
|colourist=  
|colourist=  
|lettering= no credit given  
|letterer= no credit given  
|publication_title= [[Doctor Who Magazine]] Issues 25
|publication= ''[[Doctor Who Magazine|Doctor Who - A Marvel Monthly]]'' [[DWM 27|Issues 27]]-[[DWM 30|30]], [[DWM 44|44]]-[[DWM 46|46]]
|publication_dates= 2nd  April [[1980]]
|release date= 10 April - November 1980
|publisher= [[Marvel Comics]]
|publisher= Marvel Comics
|format= B&W 2 parts / 8 pages  
|format= B&W 4 parts / 16 pages  
|previous story= [[Ship of Fools (Comic Strip Story)]]
|prev= The Outsider (comic story)
|next story= [[Star Tigers]]
|next= Yonder... The Yeti (comic story)
}}
}}
'''''Star Tigers''''' was a comic story published in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine|Doctor Who - A Marvel Monthly]]''. It was written by [[Steve Moore]].


==Summary==
== Summary ==
===Part One===
=== Part one ===
In the 26th Century the [[Draconian]]s watch undecided about the action they should take as three Dalek craft enter their space in pursuit of another ship. [[Prince Salander]] watches as the Dalek craft are destroyed by the stranger in the fourth craft. To shortcut bureaucracy, Salander welcomes and befriends the visitor (Abslom Daak), without the Emperor’s permission. Daak is searching for a way of resurrecting [[Taiyin]] from her cryogenic unit. Salander offers his help but is accused of treason by fellow Draconian Axiron. Both Daak and Salander are placed under house arrest, but Salander learns of his sons death by Dalek fire and the Emperor’s refusal to engage in hostility. After collecting Taiyin’s body with Daak make their escape in Salanders private spacecraft.
The [[26th century]]: [[Draconian]]s watch, undecided on a course of action, while three [[Dalek]] craft enter [[Draconian Empire|their territory]] in pursuit of another ship. [[Salander (Star Tigers)|Prince Salander]] watches as the Dalek craft are destroyed by the stranger in the fourth craft. To shortcut bureaucratic complications, Salander greets the fourth craft's pilot, [[Abslom Daak]], without the permission of the Emperor. Daak is searching for a way to resurrect [[Taiyin]] from her [[cryogenic]] unit. Salander offers to help, but is accused of treason by fellow Draconian [[Axiron]]. Daak and Salander are placed under house arrest, but Salander learns of his son's death by Dalek fire and the Emperor's refusal to retaliate. After they have collected Taiyin's body, Salander and Daak make their escape in Salander's private spacecraft.
===Part Two===
Having fled the Draconian Empire in a prototype attack ship (the ‘Kill-Wagon’), Abslom Daak (with a cryogenically stored Taiyin) and Prince Salander search for a crew. Hamma is an [[Ice Warrior]] employed as a contract killer on Paradise. Daak overpowers Hammaand makes him break his contract and they go off in search of [[Mercurius]] on the planet Dispater where he plays out a game of parachess with Klickbrain while the Kill-Mechs close in on his home and planet. Reluctantly Mercurius leaves with the others and Daak - the man who stole his hand in return for once stealing away his girl Selene.
Laying low from Dalek Space Commando Units disguised as orbiting meteoroids the ‘Kill Wagon’ crew launch a successful attack on a Dalek craft based inside a volcano on the planet.


=== Part two ===
Having fled the Draconian Empire in a prototype attack ship now christened the ''[[Kill-Wagon]]'', Abslom Daak and Prince Salander search for a crew. On the decadent and hedonistic [[planet]] [[Paradise]] they find [[Harma]], an [[Ice Warrior]] now employed as a contract killer. Daak overpowers Harma, makes him break his contract and goes with him to the planet [[Dispater]] to find [[Vol Mercurius]].


=== Part three ===
Mercurius has a cybernetic hand. He plays a game of [[parachess]] with the [[robot]] [[Klikbrain]] as [[Kill-Mech]]s close in on his home and planet. Daak had taken his hand in return for the loss of "his" girl, [[Selene (Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer)|Selene]]. Mercurius agrees to go with the others, callously ignoring Klikbrain's plea to take him offworld with them.


==Characters==
=== Part four ===
: [[Abslom Daak]]
The Kill-Wagon has come to a [[meteoroid]]s belt — really [[Dalek Space-Commando Unit]]s. Daak wants to attack at once, but Mercurius says to wait twelve hours until the Daleks have to recharge. The Kill-Wagon crew launch a successful [[nuclear weapon|nuclear]] attack on a Dalek craft inside a [[volcano]].
: [[Taiyin]]
: [[Prince Salander]]
: [[Hammaand]]
: [[Mercurius]]
: Axiron
: Klickbrain


==Original Print Details <br> (Publication with page count and closing captions)==
== Characters ==
# [[DWM Issue 27]] (4) To Be Continued.
* [[Abslom Daak]]
# [[DWM Issue 28]] (4)  To Be Continued.
* [[Salander (Star Tigers)|Salander]]
# [[DWM Issue 29]] (4)  More Next Week!
* [[Draconian Emperor (Star Tigers)|Draconian Emperor]]
# [[DWM Issue 30]] (4)  More Next Week!
* [[Axiron]]
# [[DWM Issue 44]] (4)  More Next Month!
* [[Karinis]]
# [[DWM Issue 45]] (4) … More Next Month
* [[Zorynx]]
# [[DWM Issue 46]] (4) The End … For Now ...
* [[Praliss]]
* [[Harma]]
* [[Vol Mercurius]]
* [[Klikbrain]]
* [[Dalek Commander (Star Tigers)|Dalek Commander]]
* [[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]]


== Worldbuilding ==
* While imprisoned, Salander compares Daak's behaviour to that of a caged [[Thorion]], though Daak thought he was going to say [[tiger]].
* Mercurius voices his preference to working with a [[Rigellian]] than Daak.


==Reprints==
== Notes ==
:* Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in [[DWUS]] Issue 10 - 12
[[File:Kroton_on_Harma.jpg|thumb|Kroton on the planet [[Paradise (planet)|Paradise]].]]
:* Reprinted as part of a linked narrative tale in [[DWMS]] Summer Special 1981
* There was an unexplained break to this story during the transition from ''[[Doctor Who Weekly]]'' to ''[[Doctor Who Monthly]]''.
* The Daleks were originally to have featured in part six, when they would have been seen closing in on Mercurius' home on Dispater. However, the instalment had to be rewritten and revised to replace the Daleks with the Kill-Mechs, totally original creations, when it was rumoured that [[Terry Nation]] was planning to withdraw the licence to use the Daleks in the strip. Fortunately, it turned out Nation had no such intentions and the Daleks returned in part seven. The ''[[Abslom Daak - Dalek Killer (graphic novel)|Abslom Daak: Dalek Killer]]'' graphic novel restores the original dialogue and art, removing the Kill-Mechs altogether.
* A minor crossover with ''[[Ship of Fools (comic story)|Ship of Fools]]'' occurs in part five: when Daak and Salander are on the streets of Paradise wondering how to find Harma, a Cyberman can be seen in the background with its back to the reader. The back stripes match those of [[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]], implying that the planet seen from ''[[Flying Dutchman II]]'' in ''Ship of Fools'' was Paradise.


==Notes==
=== Original print details ===
:* This back up strip story was introduced and tailed by the Fourth Doctor as if recounting a story.
:Publication with page count and closing captions
:* There is an unexplained break in this strip story during the transition from [[Doctor Who Weekly]] to [[Doctor Who Monthly]]. (see [[DWM]])
# [[DWM 27]] (4) To Be Continued.
# [[DWM 28]] (4) To Be Continued.
# [[DWM 29]] (4) More Next Week!
# [[DWM 30]] (4) More Next Week!
# [[DWM 44]] (4) More Next Month!
# [[DWM 45]] (4) ...More Next Month
# [[DWM 46]] (4) The End ... For Now ...


==References==
=== Reprints ===
''to be added''  
* Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in [[DW84 9]] - [[DW84 12|12]].
:* Reprinted as part of a linked narrative tale in ''[[DWMS Summer 1981]]''.
:* Included as part of the ''[[Abslom Daak - Dalek Killer (graphic novel)|Abslom Daak - Dalek Killer]]'' graphic novel in 1990.
:* Included as part of the ''[[Nemesis of the Daleks (graphic novel)|Nemesis of the Daleks]]'' graphic novel in 2013.


==Continuity==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* In his introduction, the [[Fourth Doctor]] refers to the [[Human-Draconian War]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')
* Salander reports to the Emperor on the Daleks' conquest of [[Mazam]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer (comic story)|Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer]]'')
* Daak recalls being sentenced to exile on Mazam when becoming a [[Dalek Killer]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer (comic story)|Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer]]'')
* Daak placed [[Taiyin]]'s body in the cryogenic freezer-unit of her space-yacht, in the hope that she can eventually be revived, "about twenty minutes" after she was killed by the energy blast of a Dalek [[gunstick]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer (comic story)|Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer]]'')
* The Daleks travel in space individually. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Invasion of the Daleks (comic story)|Invasion of the Daleks]]'')


==External Links==
{{DWM backups}}
''to be added''
{{Draconian stories}}
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[[Category:DWM backup comic stories]]
[[Category:Stories set in the 26th century]]
[[Category:Ice Warrior comic stories]]
[[Category:1980 comic stories]]
[[Category:Draconian comic stories]]
[[Category:Dalek comic stories]]
[[Category:Four part comics]]

Latest revision as of 20:06, 5 February 2024

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Star Tigers was a comic story published in Doctor Who - A Marvel Monthly. It was written by Steve Moore.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]

The 26th century: Draconians watch, undecided on a course of action, while three Dalek craft enter their territory in pursuit of another ship. Prince Salander watches as the Dalek craft are destroyed by the stranger in the fourth craft. To shortcut bureaucratic complications, Salander greets the fourth craft's pilot, Abslom Daak, without the permission of the Emperor. Daak is searching for a way to resurrect Taiyin from her cryogenic unit. Salander offers to help, but is accused of treason by fellow Draconian Axiron. Daak and Salander are placed under house arrest, but Salander learns of his son's death by Dalek fire and the Emperor's refusal to retaliate. After they have collected Taiyin's body, Salander and Daak make their escape in Salander's private spacecraft.

Part two[[edit] | [edit source]]

Having fled the Draconian Empire in a prototype attack ship now christened the Kill-Wagon, Abslom Daak and Prince Salander search for a crew. On the decadent and hedonistic planet Paradise they find Harma, an Ice Warrior now employed as a contract killer. Daak overpowers Harma, makes him break his contract and goes with him to the planet Dispater to find Vol Mercurius.

Part three[[edit] | [edit source]]

Mercurius has a cybernetic hand. He plays a game of parachess with the robot Klikbrain as Kill-Mechs close in on his home and planet. Daak had taken his hand in return for the loss of "his" girl, Selene. Mercurius agrees to go with the others, callously ignoring Klikbrain's plea to take him offworld with them.

Part four[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Kill-Wagon has come to a meteoroids belt — really Dalek Space-Commando Units. Daak wants to attack at once, but Mercurius says to wait twelve hours until the Daleks have to recharge. The Kill-Wagon crew launch a successful nuclear attack on a Dalek craft inside a volcano.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • While imprisoned, Salander compares Daak's behaviour to that of a caged Thorion, though Daak thought he was going to say tiger.
  • Mercurius voices his preference to working with a Rigellian than Daak.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Kroton on the planet Paradise.
  • There was an unexplained break to this story during the transition from Doctor Who Weekly to Doctor Who Monthly.
  • The Daleks were originally to have featured in part six, when they would have been seen closing in on Mercurius' home on Dispater. However, the instalment had to be rewritten and revised to replace the Daleks with the Kill-Mechs, totally original creations, when it was rumoured that Terry Nation was planning to withdraw the licence to use the Daleks in the strip. Fortunately, it turned out Nation had no such intentions and the Daleks returned in part seven. The Abslom Daak: Dalek Killer graphic novel restores the original dialogue and art, removing the Kill-Mechs altogether.
  • A minor crossover with Ship of Fools occurs in part five: when Daak and Salander are on the streets of Paradise wondering how to find Harma, a Cyberman can be seen in the background with its back to the reader. The back stripes match those of Kroton, implying that the planet seen from Flying Dutchman II in Ship of Fools was Paradise.

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

Publication with page count and closing captions
  1. DWM 27 (4) To Be Continued.
  2. DWM 28 (4) To Be Continued.
  3. DWM 29 (4) More Next Week!
  4. DWM 30 (4) More Next Week!
  5. DWM 44 (4) More Next Month!
  6. DWM 45 (4) ...More Next Month
  7. DWM 46 (4) The End ... For Now ...

Reprints[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in DW84 9 - 12.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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