Gaze of the Medusa (comic story)

Gaze of the Medusa
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Sarah
Main enemy:	Medusas
Main setting:	London, 1887
Key crew
Publisher:	Titan Comics
Editor:	Andrew James
Writers:	Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby
Designer:	Rob Farmer
Artist:	Brian Williamson
Colourist:	Hi-Fi
Letterer:	Richard Starkings, Jimmy Betancourt
Release details
Printed in:	4D 1 - 5
Release date:	23 March - 21 September 2016
Format:	Comic

You may be looking for the 1966 comic, The Gaze of the Gorgon.

Gaze of the Medusa was the sole story of the Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor comic book mini-series, published in 2016.

Summary

Victorian England. A mysterious woman commands a hidden army in a house of the blind. Scryclops stalk the streets.... and something alien and terrible screams from prehistory – with a hunger that cannot be satisfied! The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith return for an all new adventure: GAZE OF THE MEDUSA!

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Fourth Doctor
• Sarah Jane Smith
• Lady Emily Carstairs
• Jessop
• Odysseus James
• Athena James
• Scryclop
• Medusa
• Zeus
• Albert Sullivan

References

• The Fourth Doctor claims to be 750 years old.
• The Doctor believes the Weeping Angels to be a myth.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• Professor Odysseus James guesses that Gallifrey is in Ireland. (TV: The Hand of Fear et al)
• The Weeping Angels and others species uses Quantum-locking for self-defence (TV: Blink et al)
• Besides Sarah, the Doctor and some of his companions would go through a period of Earth's history without ageing. (TV: Before the Flood, The Big Bang, Exit Wounds)
• When the Doctor uncovers a hidden entryway into Lady Emily Carstairs's estate, an astonished Odysseus inquires as to how he knew about it. The Doctor replies by saying that it is trick he picked up from a "certain namesake of [his]" before adding that they should be glad that they didn't need to build another giant wooden horse. (TV: The Myth Makers)
• The Doctor would later encounter the Weeping Angels in his fifth (AUDIO: Fallen Angels), eighth (AUDIO: The Side of the Angels), tenth (TV: Blink), eleventh (TV: Flesh and Stone) and twelfth incarnations. (AUDIO: The Lost Angel)