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|publication title= [[Doctor Who Weekly]] [[DWM 23|23]]-[[DWM 24|24]]
|publication title= [[Doctor Who Weekly]] [[DWM 23|23]]-[[DWM 24|24]]
|publication dates=  19-26 March [[1980]]
|publication dates=  [[19 March|19]]-[[26 March]] [[1980]]
|publisher= [[Marvel Comics]]
|publisher= [[Marvel Comics]]
|format=  B&W 2 parts / 8 pages  
|format=  B&W 2 parts / 8 pages
|previous story= [[Twilight of the Silurians]]
|previous story= [[Twilight of the Silurians]]
|next story= [[The Outsider]]
|next story= [[The Outsider]]}}
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== Summary ==
== Summary ==
Drifting lifelessly through space [[Kroton (Cyberman)|Kroton]] the [[Cyberman]] passes through a miasmic cloud that hides a cruiser ship the ''[[Flying Dutchman II]]''. Taken aboard he is recharged by the passengers (including Willoughby, Rolf, Krylic, Leonart and Cassandra). All of them are caught in a timeless existence, bored and seeking a release. Kroton offers to help them and reactivates the robot pilot to take them to a nearby planet and breaking the time warp. Unfortunately they had been trapped 628 years and rapidly age to death. Kroton is once again drifting alone in space.
Drifting lifelessly through space [[Kroton (Cyberman)|Kroton]] the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]] passes through a miasmic cloud that hides a cruiser ship the ''[[Flying Dutchman II]]''. Taken aboard he is recharged by the passengers (including Willoughby, Rolf, Krylic, Leonart and Cassandra). All of them are caught in a timeless existence, bored and seeking a release. Kroton offers to help them and reactivates the robot pilot to take them to a nearby planet and breaking the time warp. Unfortunately they had been trapped 628 years and rapidly age to death. Kroton is once again drifting alone in space.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
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=== Reprints ===
=== Reprints ===
:* Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in [[DW84 16]].
:* Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in [[DW84 16]].
:* Reprinted by Panini Books in [[The Glorious Dead (graphic novel)]].
:* Reprinted by Panini Books in ''[[The Glorious Dead (graphic novel)|The Glorious Dead]]''.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
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Summary

Drifting lifelessly through space Kroton the Cyberman passes through a miasmic cloud that hides a cruiser ship the Flying Dutchman II. Taken aboard he is recharged by the passengers (including Willoughby, Rolf, Krylic, Leonart and Cassandra). All of them are caught in a timeless existence, bored and seeking a release. Kroton offers to help them and reactivates the robot pilot to take them to a nearby planet and breaking the time warp. Unfortunately they had been trapped 628 years and rapidly age to death. Kroton is once again drifting alone in space.

Characters

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Notes

  • This was the first of the back up strip stories not to be introduced and tailed by the Fourth Doctor as if recounting a story.

Original print details

Publication with page count and closing captions
  1. DWM 23 (4) To Be Continued
  2. DWM 24 (4) End

Reprints

Continuity

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