K-9's Finest Hour (comic story)

K-9's Finest Hour
Main character(s):	K9 Mark II
Featuring:	Fourth Doctor
Main enemy:	Rolgot
Main setting:	Yamado
Key crew
Publisher:	Marvel Comics
Editor:	Dez Skinn
Writer:	Steve Moore
Artist:	Paul Neary
Colourist:	Paul Vyse for reprint DWCC 25
Letterer:	no credit given
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Printed in:	Doctor Who Weekly Issue 12
Release date:	27 December 1979
Reprinted in:	DWCC 25
Format:	Comic
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K-9's Finest Hour was a comic story printed in Doctor Who Weekly issue 12. It was written by Steve Moore. It featured the Fourth Doctor and K9 Mark II.

Summary

A gravatronic tractor beam is used to capture the TARDIS, but accidentally locks on to K9 instead of the Doctor, kidnapping the robot. Firandel and Rolgot are behind the botched kidnap, working for the Sontarans. K9 realises their intention to kidnap and kill the Doctor because of the lack of air on his expected arrival and overpowers his "hosts" before the Doctor and the TARDIS arrive in safety to collect him.

Characters

• Fourth Doctor
• K9 Mark II
• Rolgot
• Firandel

Worldbuilding

• Firandel tries to capture the Doctor when the Doctor's TARDIS travels past Yamado in the Crab Nebula.
• Firandel and Rolgot have been hired to kill the Doctor by the Sontarans.

Notes

• This back up strip is introduced by the Fourth Doctor, who comments on K9's absence from Doctor Who and the Iron Legion and City of the Damned.

Original print details

Publication with page count and closing captions

1. DWM 12 (4) The End.

Reprints

• B&W reprint in DWMS Summer 1980

• Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in Marvel Premiere Issue 58
• Coloured and reprinted in Doctor Who Classic Comics Issue 25

Continuity

to be added