Money Troubles (comic story)

Money Troubles (comic story)

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Money Troubles
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eleventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Amy Pond
Main enemy:	Ratlings, the Sidewinder Syndicate
Main setting:	c. 40,412
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Magazines]]
Editor:	Moray Laing
Writer:	Steve Lyons
Artist:	John Ross
Colourist:	Alan Craddock
Release details
Format:	Comic - 1 parts (4 pages)

Summary

Arriving inside the vaults of a Ratlings bank and surrounded by mounds of precious coins (like the ten stechma coin minted in 40,412), the Doctor and Amy Pond are soon captured on suspicion of being bank robbers. The bank manager and the security guard are distracted by gunfires from the main lobby where a raid by the angry Sidewinder Syndicate is taking place. They are demanding their money stolen money back from the Ratlings. From a corner, the Doctor and Amy Pond watch the Syndicate empty the vaults. The Ratlings try to explain that the money wasn’t stolen but lost on the stock markets. When the Syndicate realise the coins are faked (the King Cobra’s head is facing the wrong way, right not left), the Ratlings try to blame the new arrivals found in the vault – the Doctor and Amy. As the Doctor and Amy are about to be taken away, Amy realises that she knows where the real coins are! Scraping one of the coins, she reveals that the coins have been made to look fake - a cunning plan by the Ratlings to con the Sidewinder Syndicate. Leaving the Syndicate and the Ratlings to settle their own accounts, the Doctor and Amy return to the TARDIS and leave.

Characters

• The Doctor
• Amy Pond

References

• The Doctor has previously encountered the Sidewinder Syndicate in The Tenth Doctor comic Snakes Alive!

Notes

• The DWAM comic strip adventures were very much aimed at a younger audience and the artwork and colours were bold and bright, reflecting the tone of the magazine.
• Self contained, one part stories were the norm.

Original print details

Publication with page count and closing captions

1. DWA 169 (4 pages) NEXT WEEK – Fashion Victims!

• No reprints to date.

Continuity

to be added

External links

• The official BBC Magazine site with cover gallery and news of the latest available issue.