Death Flower (comic story)

Death Flower
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Sarah
Main enemy:	Sarric, Sarricoids
Main setting:	Suffingham
Key crew
Writer:	Gerry Haylock
Artist:	Gerry Haylock
Release details
Number of parts:	11
Printed in:	TV Comic 1204-1214
Release date:	11 January - 22 March 1975
Reprinted in:	DWCC 5, DWCC 6
Format:	Comic
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Death Flower was the comic debut of the Fourth Doctor.

Summary

The Doctor and Sarah investigate Vegpro, a firm manufacturing a sinister new breed of plant life, the Sarricoids.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Fourth Doctor
• Sarah Jane Smith
• Malcolm Sillett
• Professor Sarric
• Frank Lampard
• Mary Lampard
• Vicar
• Joe Higgins
• Landlord
• Ted

References

to be added

Notes

• The plot of this story has similarities to then-unproduced television story The Seeds of Doom.
• This was the very first Doctor Who comic strip to feature the Fourth Doctor. It opened with a brief recap of Planet of the Spiders and the following narrative; "One crisp, January morning of the new year finds Sarah-Jane Smith and the Doctor spinning through the Dorset countryside..."
• The very first words were spoken not by the Doctor himself; but by Sarah Jane; "I still haven't got used to your new face, Doctor."
• The very first words spoken by the Fourth Doctor were; "You're not the only one, Sarah-Jane. I have a similar problem when I shave each day!"

Continuity

• Sarah says that she is still not used to the Doctor's new face. (TV: Robot)

External links

• Death Flower at the Doctor Who Reference Guide