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comic name= The Crossroads of Time |
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image= [[file:Death's Head giant.jpg|250px]]|
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series= [[Doctor Who Magazine comic strips|Doctor Who]] -<BR> [[Seventh Doctor comic strip stories]]|
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doctor= [[Seventh Doctor]]|
|series=[[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]]
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|doctor= Seventh Doctor
enemy= [[Death's Head]] |
|companions=  
year= |
|enemy= [[Death's Head]]  
writer= [[Simon Furman]]|
|setting=
artist= [[Geoff Senior]]|
|writer= Simon Furman
editor= [[Richard Starkings]]|
|artist= [[Geoff Senior]]
colourist=|
|editor= [[Richard Starkings]]
lettering=[[Zed (letterer)|Zed]]|
|colourist=
publication title= [[Doctor Who Magazine]] [[DWM 135|135]]|
|letterer=[[Zed (letterer)|Zed]]
publication dates= [[April]] [[1988]]|
|publication= ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 135|135]]
publisher= [[Marvel Comics]]|
|reprint= TIDH 1
format= Comic - 1 part|
|reprint2= A Cold Day in Hell! (graphic novel)
previous story= [[Redemption]]|
|cover date= April 1988
next story= [[Claws of the Klathi]]|
|release date= 10 March 1988
|publisher= Marvel Comics
|format= Comic - 1 part (8 pages)
|prev= Redemption! (comic story)
|next= Claws of the Klathi! (comic story)
|series2= Stories reprinted in ''[[The Incomplete Death's Head]]''
|prev2= Death's Head! (comic story)
|next2= Watch Out – Dragon's Claws Here's Death's Head! (comic story)
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'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' was a [[Seventh Doctor]] comic published in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''.
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a [[Seventh Doctor]] comic published in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''.
==Summary==
''to be added''


==Characters==
== Summary ==
*[[Seventh Doctor]]
Death's Head, who was sent flying through the [[Vortex]], collides with [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. The TARDIS and Death's Head both land on an uninhabited moon. The Doctor gets out of the TARDIS and notes that, since he collided with something (Death's Head) in the Vortex, a Time Warden should appear. Sure enough, one does appear, and begins questioning the Doctor. Death's Head recovers, now standing at his full 30 feet height. The Time Warden gets skittish and leaves, telling the Doctor to deal with it on his own. Death's Head picks up the Doctor in his hand. After some quick negotiating, the Doctor is able to escape Death's Head's grasp and retrieves [[the Master]]'s [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]], which the Doctor confiscated inside his TARDIS. He blasts Death's Head with it. Death's Head does not shrink down to microscopic size like the Doctor planned, but rather shrinks down to the same size as the Doctor. He then attempts to kill the Doctor, who ducks under a swing from Death's Head's mace, and begins running just as the Time Warden reappeared. The Time Warden is again scared off by Death's Head, who is now pursuing the Doctor deeper into the moon. The Doctor realises that he cannot combat Death's Head, and offers the TARDIS to Death's Head in exchange for keeping his life. Death's Head agrees, and enters the TARDIS with the Doctor. The Doctor distracts Death's Head long enough to get to the controls and operate the teleporter. He succeeds, and Death's Head is teleported to the 81st century, just as the Time Warden reappears.
*[[Death's Head]]
*A [[time warden]]


==References==
== Characters ==
The Doctor uses [[the Master]]'s [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]] on Death's Head, reducing him to human size. (This may be the same one he used on [[Kamelion]] at the end of ''[[Planet of Fire]]''.
* [[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[Death's Head]]
* [[Time warden]]


==Notes==
== Worldbuilding ==
*Among the items the Doctor uses to bargain with Death's Head are [[Jelly baby|jelly babies]], a common feature during the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s era. This story was written to enable Death's Head to be removed from Transformers continuity, shrunk and dropped into Dragon's Claws at human size.
* Among the items the Doctor uses to bargain with [[Death's Head]] are [[Jelly baby|jelly babies]].


===Reprints===
== Notes ==
*[[The Marvel Bumper Comic]] Holiday Special 1988
[[File:DWM plug in TFUK.jpg|thumb|right|Advertisement of the story in ''Transformers'' UK #154.]]
*[[The Incomplete Death's Head]] 1, colourised
* This story was written to enable [[Death's Head]] to be removed from ''[[tfwiki:The_Transformers_(Marvel_Comics)#Marvel UK|Transformers]]'' UK universe (TFUK), shrunk and dropped into [[Marvel UK]]'s own ''{{iw|marvel|Dragon's Claws Vol 1|Dragon's Claws}}'' title at human size.
*[[A Cold Day in Hell (graphic novel)|A Cold Day in Hell]]
* The crossover nature of the story prompted advertisements in other Marvel UK titles, including the "TransFormation" segment in [[tfwiki:Toy Soldiers!|''Transformers'' UK #154]].
* While from the point of view of a contemporary reader, this DWM story directly follows the events of a TFUK story in [[tfwiki:transformers:The Legacy of Unicron!|''Transformers'' UK #151]], which explains how Death's Head ended up in the [[Time Vortex]] without a time machine, that TFUK story is considered invalid on this wiki. Later, after Marvel UK lost the rights to mention TFUK, an alternative, incompatible explanation that Death's Head was caught in the gravitational well of a collapsing planet was supplied for the [[The Incomplete Death's Head (comic story)|linking materal]] created for the ''[[The Incomplete Death's Head]]'' series. This latter explanation is the only one acceptable on in-universe pages.


==Continuity==
=== Reprints ===
''to be added''
* [[The Marvel Bumper Comic]] Holiday Special 1988
* ''[[The Incomplete Death's Head]]'' [[TIDH 1|#1]] (colourised) - 1993
* ''[[A Cold Day in Hell! (graphic novel)|A Cold Day in Hell!]]'' - 2009


==[[Seventh Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]]==
== Continuity ==
*This story takes place after [[DWM]]: ''[[Redemption]]''
* Death's Head ended up in the [[Time Vortex]] after being caught in the gravitational well of a collapsing planet during a war of giant robots. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Incomplete Death's Head (comic story)|The Incomplete Death's Head]]'')
*This story takes place before [[DWM]]: ''[[Claws of the Klathi]]''
 
== External links ==
{{marvelx|Doctor Who Magazine Vol 1 135|''Doctor Who Magazine'' #135}}
{{marvelx|Incomplete Death's Head Vol 1 1|''Incomplete Death's Head'' #1}}


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The Crossroads of Time was a Seventh Doctor comic published in Doctor Who Magazine.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Death's Head, who was sent flying through the Vortex, collides with the Doctor's TARDIS. The TARDIS and Death's Head both land on an uninhabited moon. The Doctor gets out of the TARDIS and notes that, since he collided with something (Death's Head) in the Vortex, a Time Warden should appear. Sure enough, one does appear, and begins questioning the Doctor. Death's Head recovers, now standing at his full 30 feet height. The Time Warden gets skittish and leaves, telling the Doctor to deal with it on his own. Death's Head picks up the Doctor in his hand. After some quick negotiating, the Doctor is able to escape Death's Head's grasp and retrieves the Master's Tissue Compression Eliminator, which the Doctor confiscated inside his TARDIS. He blasts Death's Head with it. Death's Head does not shrink down to microscopic size like the Doctor planned, but rather shrinks down to the same size as the Doctor. He then attempts to kill the Doctor, who ducks under a swing from Death's Head's mace, and begins running just as the Time Warden reappeared. The Time Warden is again scared off by Death's Head, who is now pursuing the Doctor deeper into the moon. The Doctor realises that he cannot combat Death's Head, and offers the TARDIS to Death's Head in exchange for keeping his life. Death's Head agrees, and enters the TARDIS with the Doctor. The Doctor distracts Death's Head long enough to get to the controls and operate the teleporter. He succeeds, and Death's Head is teleported to the 81st century, just as the Time Warden reappears.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Advertisement of the story in Transformers UK #154.
  • This story was written to enable Death's Head to be removed from Transformers UK universe (TFUK), shrunk and dropped into Marvel UK's own Dragon's Claws title at human size.
  • The crossover nature of the story prompted advertisements in other Marvel UK titles, including the "TransFormation" segment in Transformers UK #154.
  • While from the point of view of a contemporary reader, this DWM story directly follows the events of a TFUK story in Transformers UK #151, which explains how Death's Head ended up in the Time Vortex without a time machine, that TFUK story is considered invalid on this wiki. Later, after Marvel UK lost the rights to mention TFUK, an alternative, incompatible explanation that Death's Head was caught in the gravitational well of a collapsing planet was supplied for the linking materal created for the The Incomplete Death's Head series. This latter explanation is the only one acceptable on in-universe pages.

Reprints[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

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