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comic name= The Enemy from Nowhere|
|image= Enemy from nowhere.jpg  
image= [[file:Enemy from nowhere.jpg|250px]] |
|series=[[TV Action|''TVA'' comic stories]]
series= [[Doctor Who]] - [[TV Action]]|
|number=
number=|
|doctor= Third Doctor
doctor= [[Third Doctor]]|
|companions= [[Davie Jenkins|Jenkins]]
companions= |
|enemy= [[Zeron (The Enemy from Nowhere)|Zerons]]
enemy= [[Zeron]]s|
|setting= [[Cornwall]], [[1970s]]
year= |
|writer= Dennis Hooper
writer= [[Dennis Hooper]]|
|artist= [[Gerry Haylock]]
artist= [[Gerry Haylock]]|
|editor=
editor=|
|colourist=
colourist=|
|letterer=
lettering=|
|publication= ''[[TV Action]]'' 71-78
publication title= [[TV Action]] 71-78|
|release date= 24 June - 12 August 1972
publication dates= 24 June - 12 August [[1972]]|
|publisher= Polystyle
publisher= |
|reprint = DWCC 12
format= Comic - 8 parts (? pages) |
|format= Comic  
previous story= [[A Stitch in Time (comic strip)|A Stitch in Time]]|
|epcount = 8
next story= [[The Ugrakks]]|
|prev= A Stitch in Time (TVA comic story){{!}}A Stitch in Time
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|next= The Ugrakks (comic story)
'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' was a [[Third Doctor]] comic story published in ''[[TV Action]]''.
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==Summary==
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a [[Third Doctor]] comic story published in ''[[TV Action]]''.
The Third Doctor combats the twin menaces of the reverse-matter [[Zeron]]s and [[Earth]] bureaucracy!


==Characters==
== Summary ==
*[[Third Doctor]]
The Doctor is invited to Dowmphilly tracking station to observe the launch of a new space platform. However, the platform is in fact a launch pad for a nuclear arsenal. When a mysterious object is detected approaching earth it is assumed to be a meteor and, despite the Doctor's warnings, the space platform use it as target practice for a nuclear missile. As the missile has no effect it soon becomes clear that the object is a spacecraft, In retaliation, the space platform is apparently destroyed. Fearful that the Earth has instigated a space war what it cannot hope to win, the Doctor travels in the TARDIS to the alien vessel to confront its unseen occupants.


==References==
== Characters ==
''to be added''
* [[Third Doctor]]
* [[Davie Jenkins]]
* [[Weatherall]]
* [[Knight|Sir]] [[Ian MacGregor]]
* [[General (The Enemy from Nowhere)|General]]
* Sir [[Malcolm Ruttsby]]
* [[Carl (The Enemy from Nowhere)|Carl]]
* [[Joe (The Enemy from Nowhere)|Joe]]
* [[Fred (The Enemy from Nowhere)|Fred]]
* [[Secretary (The Enemy from Nowhere)|Secretary]]
 
== Worldbuilding ==
* The general asks whether the alien menace is [[anti-matter]], which the Doctor says is "quite another thing".
 
== Notes ==
* These Zerons are not those from the later story ''[[Zeron Invasion (comic story)|Zeron Invasion]]'', nor are they the [[Xeron]]s from ''[[The Space Museum (TV story)|The Space Museum]]''.
 
=== Original print details ===
 
(Publication with page count and closing captions)
 
* TVA 71 (3 pages) A military mystery for the Doctor... / ...or a new enemy in time? See next week!
* TVA 72 (3 pages) Next week the Doctor's plan's upset... / ...and the world's future is in peril!
* TVA 73 (3 pages) Next week, a threat to Earth... / ...and the Doctor is powerless!
* TVA 74 (3 pages) What are the Doctor's fears? / ...see next week!
* TVA 75 (3 pages) Earth is threatened by an invisible attack... / ...follow the Doctor's mystery journey, next week!
* TVA 76 (3 pages) Next week Earth's envoys are in trouble... / ...and the Doctor faces an unexpected foe!
* TVA 77 (3 pages) Next week, Earth is inches from destruction... / ...and the Doctor takes a gamble with death!
* TVA 78 (3 pages) The Doctor's time journey continues until... / ...he meets the UGRAKK—next week!


==Notes==
:<u>Note:</u> The closing caption for each instalment was split over the second and third pages of the strip.
''to be added''


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


==Timeline==
== External links ==
*This story takes place after [[TVA]]: ''[[And Now for My Next Trick...]]''
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*this story takes place before [[TVA]]: ''[[The Ugrakks]]''


==External links==
{{Third Doctor Polystyle comics}}
*[http://www.alteredvistas.co.uk/html/third_doctor.html| Altered Vistas - In the Comics - Third Doctor]{{Third Doctor TVC/TVA comics}}
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The Enemy from Nowhere was a Third Doctor comic story published in TV Action.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor is invited to Dowmphilly tracking station to observe the launch of a new space platform. However, the platform is in fact a launch pad for a nuclear arsenal. When a mysterious object is detected approaching earth it is assumed to be a meteor and, despite the Doctor's warnings, the space platform use it as target practice for a nuclear missile. As the missile has no effect it soon becomes clear that the object is a spacecraft, In retaliation, the space platform is apparently destroyed. Fearful that the Earth has instigated a space war what it cannot hope to win, the Doctor travels in the TARDIS to the alien vessel to confront its unseen occupants.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The general asks whether the alien menace is anti-matter, which the Doctor says is "quite another thing".

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

(Publication with page count and closing captions)

  • TVA 71 (3 pages) A military mystery for the Doctor... / ...or a new enemy in time? See next week!
  • TVA 72 (3 pages) Next week the Doctor's plan's upset... / ...and the world's future is in peril!
  • TVA 73 (3 pages) Next week, a threat to Earth... / ...and the Doctor is powerless!
  • TVA 74 (3 pages) What are the Doctor's fears? / ...see next week!
  • TVA 75 (3 pages) Earth is threatened by an invisible attack... / ...follow the Doctor's mystery journey, next week!
  • TVA 76 (3 pages) Next week Earth's envoys are in trouble... / ...and the Doctor faces an unexpected foe!
  • TVA 77 (3 pages) Next week, Earth is inches from destruction... / ...and the Doctor takes a gamble with death!
  • TVA 78 (3 pages) The Doctor's time journey continues until... / ...he meets the UGRAKK—next week!
Note: The closing caption for each instalment was split over the second and third pages of the strip.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

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

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