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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' comic strip published in [[2012]].
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' comic strip published in 2012.


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
* The [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] are dining with the [[Jonson (Terror from the Swamp)|Jonsons]] in [[1929]] [[Louisiana]]. Dinner conversation turns to talk of a “[[Unnamed Species (Terror from the Swamp)|terrifying beast]]” that has taken whole families and not long after the trio of guests go monster hunting. All three are soon captured by a giant creature that drags the bodies of to a hollowed out trunk which it appears to be using as a larder storing the missing townsfolk until it is ready to eat them. The Doctor uses his [[sonic screwdriver]] to release the bodies but as they are about to escape they find a pile of alien skeletons. Outside of the trunk the townsfolk have arrived en mass. Armed with flaming torches they are pursuing the creature. The fleeing creature is savaged by an alligator and left for dead while the townsfolk chase off the alligator instead. The Doctor races to the side of the creature and learns that it is an orphan - its parents having died in a crash some years earlier. Struggling to survive it had sought to protect the townsfolk from the alligators. Weakened but strong, the Doctor returns the creature to its home planet.
* The [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] are dining with the [[Jonson (Terror from the Swamp)|Jonsons]] in [[1929]] [[Louisiana]]. Dinner conversation turns to talk of a "[[Unnamed Species (Terror from the Swamp)|terrifying beast]]" that has taken whole families and not long after the trio of guests go monster hunting. All three are soon captured by a giant creature that drags the bodies of to a hollowed out trunk which it appears to be using as a larder storing the missing townsfolk until it is ready to eat them. The Doctor uses his [[sonic screwdriver]] to release the bodies but as they are about to escape they find a pile of alien skeletons. Outside of the trunk the townsfolk have arrived en mass. Armed with flaming torches they are pursuing the creature. The fleeing creature is savaged by an alligator and left for dead while the townsfolk chase off the alligator instead. The Doctor races to the side of the creature and learns that it is an orphan — its parents having died in a crash some years earlier. Struggling to survive it had sought to protect the townsfolk from the alligators. Weakened but strong, the Doctor returns the creature to its home planet.


== Named characters ==
== Characters ==
* The [[Eleventh Doctor]]
* [[Eleventh Doctor]]
* [[Amy Pond]]
* [[Amy Pond]]
* [[Rory Williams]]
* [[Rory Williams]]
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== References ==
== References ==
* The word ‘aligator’ comes from the Spanish ‘el legato.’
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* The Doctor seems familiar with Mr and Mrs Jonson who knows of [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] and [[Dalek]]s.
* The Doctor recalls nearly being eaten by giant cybernetic spiders on Janus Prime.
 
== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* The creature has been stranded for several years struggling to survive ... but it has townsfolk trapped in its base who are all still alive and well!
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=== Original print details ===
=== Original print details ===
* Publication with page count and closing captions
* Publication with page count and closing captions
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor refers to [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] collectively as ‘Ponds’
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* [[Rory Williams]] is addressed by Mr Jonson as “Mr Pond”.


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Revision as of 04:08, 5 November 2015

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Terror from the Swamp was a Doctor Who Adventures comic strip published in 2012.

Summary

  • The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams are dining with the Jonsons in 1929 Louisiana. Dinner conversation turns to talk of a "terrifying beast" that has taken whole families and not long after the trio of guests go monster hunting. All three are soon captured by a giant creature that drags the bodies of to a hollowed out trunk which it appears to be using as a larder storing the missing townsfolk until it is ready to eat them. The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to release the bodies but as they are about to escape they find a pile of alien skeletons. Outside of the trunk the townsfolk have arrived en mass. Armed with flaming torches they are pursuing the creature. The fleeing creature is savaged by an alligator and left for dead while the townsfolk chase off the alligator instead. The Doctor races to the side of the creature and learns that it is an orphan — its parents having died in a crash some years earlier. Struggling to survive it had sought to protect the townsfolk from the alligators. Weakened but strong, the Doctor returns the creature to its home planet.

Characters

References

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Notes

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Original print details

  • Publication with page count and closing captions
  1. DWA 284 (4 pages) DON’T MISS ANOTHER NEW ADVENTURE NEXT TIME!
  • No reprints to date.

Continuity

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