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|comic name = The Moderator
|range = DWM comic stories{{!}}DWM Comics
|image= [[File:Moderator.gif|250px]]
|number in range = 23
|series = [[Doctor Who Magazine comic strips|Doctor Who]] -<br /> [[Fifth Doctor comic stories]]
|image = Josiah W Dogbolter.jpg
|doctor = [[Fifth Doctor]]
|series =[[DWM comic stories|''DWM'' comic stories]]
|companions = [[Gus]]
|doctor = Fifth Doctor
|enemy = [[The Moderator]]<br />[[Soldiers Of Celeste]]
|companions = [[Angus Goodman|Gus]]
|year = <ul><li>Deep space</li><li>[[Celeste]]</li><li>Un-named [[planet]]s</li></ul>
|enemy = [[Josiah W. Dogbolter]]
|writer = [[Steve Parkhouse]]
|setting = [[Celeste (planet)|Celeste]]
|editor = [[Alan McKenzie]]
|writer = Steve Parkhouse
|artist = [[Steve Dillon]]
|artist = [[Steve Dillon]]
|colourist = None - Black & White
|colourist =  
|publication title = [[Doctor Who Monthly]] [[DWM 84|84]]<br />[[Doctor Who Magazine]] [[DWM 86|86]]-[[DWM 87|87]]
|publication = [[DWM 84]], [[DWM 86|86]]-[[DWM 87|87]]
|publication dates = [[January]] - [[April]] [[1984]]
|release date = 8 December 1983 - 8 March 1984
|publisher = [[Marvel Comics]]
|publisher = Marvel Comics
|format = Comic - 3 parts
|format = Comic
|previous story = [[4-Dimensional Vistas]]
|prev = 4-Dimensional Vistas (comic story)
|next story = [[The Shape Shifter]]
|next = The Shape Shifter (comic story)
}}
|epcount = 3|reprint=The Tides of Time (graphic novel)
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'''''The Moderator''''' was the final regular [[Fifth Doctor comic stories|Fifth Doctor comic story]] published in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''.


== Summary ==
== Plot ==
The Doctor and his new friend Gus arrive on Celeste. a world populated by intelligent soldiers. But all is not what it seems. The soldiers are under the control of the sinister Moderator who is using the gift of Celeste to creat a link to Earth. Can The Doctor stop him inhabiting another planet.
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== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Fifth Doctor]]
* [[Fifth Doctor]]
* [[Gus]]
* [[Angus Goodman]]
* [[Josiah W. Dogbolter]]
* [[Josiah W. Dogbolter]]
* [[The Moderator]]
* [[The Moderator]]
* [[Hob]]
* [[Wrekka]]
* [[Malcolm (The Moderator)|Malcolm]]
* [[Nigel (The Moderator)|Nigel]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
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* Intra-Venus owns [[Warworld Investments]], [[Cybernetics International]], and [[Martian Munitions]].
* Dogbolter owns [[Mars]], [[Jupiter]], and [[Venus]], as well as "a score" of worlds in other [[solar system]]s. His influence also stretches to [[Phobos]] and [[Warworld]].
* The Moderator finds [[Zyglot]]s on [[Magellan (planet)|Magellan]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This comic strip was reprinted as part of [[The Tides of Time (graphic novel)|The Tides of Time graphic novel]] published by [[Panini]].
* This comic strip was reprinted as part of [[The Tides of Time (graphic novel)|''The Tides of Time'' graphic novel]] published by [[Panini Comics]] in [[May (releases)|May]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]].
* The last words spoken by the [[Fifth Doctor]] in his comic book tenure are; ''"Well, it's not Akron, Ohio, but it's Earth. The same time, the same place that we first met!"''


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
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* The Moderator mentions the [[Freefall Warriors]], who the Doctor had met in his [[fourth incarnation]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Free-Fall Warriors (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Free-Fall Warriors]]'')


== Timeline ==
== External links ==
* The Moderator occurs after [[DWM]]: ''[[4-Dimensional Vistas]]''
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* The Moderator occurs before [[ST]]: ''[[The Glass Princess]]''


== External links ==
* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/comic5.htm#moderator Doctor Who Reference Guide - '''The Moderator''']
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The Moderator was the final regular Fifth Doctor comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine.

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