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|artist= [[Dave Lloyd]] | |artist= [[Dave Lloyd]] | ||
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|publication | |publication= ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 40|Issues 40]]-[[DWM 43|43]] | ||
| | |release date= [[17 July]]-[[7 August]] [[1980]] | ||
|publisher= [[Marvel Comics]] | |publisher= [[Marvel Comics]] | ||
|format= B&W 4 parts / 8 pages | |format= B&W 4 parts / 8 pages | ||
Revision as of 01:49, 17 March 2012
Summary
In 1989, ex-plumber Winston Blunt finds a sphere that’s one of six fallen from the sky. Winston soon patents a new method of bonding carbon atoms and sets up Galaxy Plastics Inc. Before shooting himself, he appoints a Mr. Dolman to run the company. When industrial spy Max Fischer breaks into the factory, he is attacked by plastic action figures before being caught by Dolman and the Nestene Intelligence. Max throws a spanner that damages the Nestene tank and causes an explosion, but Max is pursued by the remains of the Dolman Auton. Having survived a car accident whilst fighting miniature dolls, Max is killed by Dolman. However, in August 1990, one Max Fischer invests money in a plastics factory and leaves behind flowers on a shallow grave (that of the real Max Fischer) hidden in the grounds — plastic flowers of course!
Characters
References
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Notes
- This is one of five collaborations between writer Alan Moore and illustrator David Lloyd, who would go on to create the graphic novel V for Vendetta.
- This back up strip story was introduced and tailed by the Fourth Doctor as if recounting a story.
- For the DWM Issue 184 reprint, the opening frame sees the Fourth Doctor replaced with the Seventh Doctor.
Original print details
- Publication with page count and closing captions
Reprints
- Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in Doctor Who (1984.
- Reprinted in the DWMS Summer 1981.
- This story was repeated as a one part story in DWM 184 as a filler for a delay in the regular ongoing adventures of the main Doctor led comic strip (Evening's Empire). Artist David Lloyd kindly provided the original boards for the story, which enabled it to be re-lettered, but this apparently angered writer Alan Moore who complained to Marvel UK Editorial Director Paul Neary about the reprint. On hearing of this at the Vworp! Vworp! convention in Manchester in 2008 from former DWM editor Gary Russell, the editor who made the reprint decision but was unaware of the fallout, John Freeman, wrote a letter of apology to Alan Moore. Alan telephoned John almost immediately to say he bore no ill-will about the reprint, telling him he could not recall complaining after the strip was re-published.
Continuity
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Timeline
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