Kane's Story (comic story)

Kane's Story
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companion(s):	Peri, Frobisher
Main enemy:	Skeletoids
Main setting:	Unnamed planet, 82nd century New York City, 1985
Key crew
Publisher:	Marvel Comics UK
Editor:	Cefn Ridout
Writer:	Alan McKenzie
Artist:	John Ridgway
Letterer:	Annie Halfacree
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Printed in:	DWM 104
Release date:	8 August 1985
Reprinted in:	DWCC 19, Voyager, DWCS3 6, Doctor Who Classics Volume 6, Doctor Who Classics Omnibus Volume 2
Format:	Comic
DWM comic stories
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Next →	Abel's Story

Kane's Story was a Sixth Doctor comic published in Doctor Who Magazine. It was the first story to feature the Skeletoids, who would form the basis of the comics' plot up until Frobisher's Story. It would also be the first DWM story to feature a human companion seen on TV, as K9 Mark II first appeared in Timeslip.

Summary

With the TARDIS awaiting repairs, the Sixth Doctor meets Kane, a man who tells him of the approaching menace that threatens much of the galaxy, including the Earth.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Sixth Doctor
• Frobisher
• Peri Brown
• Kane
• PR 49
• Arnie's Auto Service employee

References

• The Doctor buys a burger and Kane demonstrates his telekinesis on it.
• The Skeletoids invade outposts on Sigma IV.
• Peri is living in New York City in 1985.
• A gang member speculates whether or not Superman will emerge from the TARDIS.
• Another gangster wears a KISS jacket.
• The Skeletoids demolish both the Dalek and Cyberman empires.

Notes

• Peri, an American in New York City, tells her boss to find a new "skivvy" when she quits. The term is a British colloquialism used for low-ranking domestic servants. While an inconsistency on its own, Peri is known for using a number of British slang words in her vocabulary across various forms of media. A possible side-effect of her parents' globetrotting careers as archaeologists. She also uses the word, "skivvy", in AUDIO: Paradise 5.
• Almost uniquely, this comic is the first of a four-part story to use an idiosyncratic naming style for each episode (i.e. "Appl.'s Story"). While unusual for the time, it was common practice in the early 1960s for each instalment to possess its own title.
• The Skeletoids' attack on the two "mighty empires" is illustrated by panel depicting a Dalek and Cyberman, respectively.

Continuity

• The TARDIS has just escaped from the Funhouse with such force that it fragmented the time vortex. (COMIC: Funhouse, Abel's Story)
• Peri offered to show the Doctor around Manhattan in New York City to cheer him up in AUDIO: Paradise 5.
• Peri originally joined the Doctor in TV: Planet of Fire, witnessing his regeneration in TV: The Caves of Androzani. She would be left at a botany symposium during the events of AUDIO: Davros, while the Doctor attended to business elsewhere. Her stay in New York, 1985, however, proved considerably longer than either her or the Doctor expected. She's surprised and delighted to see him return.
• Before picking up Frobisher, the Doctor had been travelling alone on the trail of the Moderator's employer. (COMIC: The Moderator)
• The Doctor, Peri and Frobisher would visit New York City again in COMIC: Time Bomb.
• A group of miniature penguins are seen watching the Doctor. These penguins first appeared in Once Upon a Time-Lord and will reappear in Party Animals and Time & Time Again.

External links

• Kane's Story at the Doctor Who Reference Guide