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Revision as of 18:37, 9 March 2023
The Monsters from the Past was a TV Comic story starring the Second Doctor, John Who and Gillian Who.
Plot
It is the 1960s and the TARDIS materialises in a museum in New York. The travellers emerge in a room full of artificial, model dinosaurs. The Doctor takes John and Gillian on a tour of the city and while they are away a scientist brings the dinosaurs to life. The Doctor manages to escape from the teeth and claws of the creatures and contacts the army. He tells the artillery where to aim their shells but the dinosaurs seem impregnable and burst out onto the streets. The Doctor makes for the zoo where he discovers the scientist giving drugs to the animals that will make them obey him. The scientist orders a panther to attack the Doctor who drives it off with acid.
The scientist leaves his laboratory lair on a brontosaurus. This allows the Doctor to create an antidote to the Life drug that the scientist was using. Before he can get the antidote to the army, the scientist and his tame dinosaurs attack the building. The Doctor escapes, however, and gets back to John and Gillian at an army shelter. He puts his antidote into syringes which the army loads into their rifles. The first three dinosaurs to attack are transformed back to the museum models that they began as, but the other one the scientist is riding attacks the Doctor and knocks him out. Gillian shoots the dinosaur with a syringe, the scientist is thrown off as she does so, and the dinosaur becomes a model once more. The soldiers carry away the unconscious scientist on a stretcher and the Doctor, John and Gillian return to the TARDIS.
Characters
- Second Doctor
- John Who
- Gillian Who
- Scientist
References
- The brontosaurus knocks down an advertisement for Coca-Cola.
Notes
- Starting with part 4 of this story, each part is decreased from three pages to two.
- Although it is claimed that Gillian shoots the scientist dead at the story's end, resulting in an unusually violent ending for a Doctor Who story and marking one of the few times a companion is shown killing someone, particularly in a comic strip, this is not the case. A closer examination of the frame in question (the second panel on the second page) clearly shows that Gillian fires the rifle loaded with an antidote-filled syringe at the dinosaur, while the scientist is simply thrown off as she does so.
- From Issue 810, the comic strip's title changes back from Doctor Who and the Daleks, as it had been from Issue 788, to just Doctor Who.
Continuity
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