The Piggybackers (comic story)

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The Piggybackers
Doctor:	Thirteenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Graham, Ryan, Yaz
Main setting:	Brideport, United States, October 1962
Key crew
Publisher:	Panini Comics
Editor:	Peter Ware and Marcus Hearn
Writer:	Scott Gray
Penciller:	Martin Geraghty
Inker:	David A. Roach
Colourist:	James Offredi
Letterer:	Roger Langridge
Release details
Printed in:	DWM 549 -
Release date:	5 March 2020 -
Cover date:	April 2020 -
Format:	Comic-
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The Piggybackers was a comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine in 2020, starring the Thirteenth Doctor.

Summary

Part one

to be added

Characters

• Thirteenth Doctor
• Graham O'Brien
• Ryan Sinclair
• Yasmin Khan
• Edith Harcourt
• Abner J. Endicott
• Lizzie
• Tommy Dalton
• Steve
• Steve's sister
• Samuel
• Jackson
• Betty

References

History

• The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in October 1962.
  • The crisis was, as of 2020, the closest the world had ever come to nuclear war.
• Edith Harcourt has been teaching at Brideport Elementary School since 1914.
• John F. Kennedy is the president in 1962, and Nikita Khrushchev was the Secretary.
• The US Naval Blockade is erected.
• Abner Endicott fought in France in 1917.

Foods and beverages

• The Cuban Missile Crisis leads to panic buying.
• The Doctor drinks three milkshakes, with an amazed Yaz wondering how "anyone can take that much lactose and live".
• A store sells cans of beans for one dollar.

Places

• The Cuban Missile Crisis saw Russia planting nuclear missiles in Cuba, off the US coast.
• Ryan and Yaz are relieved to know that they are not in Alabama.
• Team TARDIS eat at Lizzie's Diner.
• Lizzie's partner Hank runs an auto shop.

Miscellaneous

• Edith Harcourt's class watch a video on the "Duck and cover" method.

Notes

Original print details

(Publication with page count and closing captions)

1. DWM 549 (8 pages): Next: The Countdown

Continuity

• Yaz initially believes that Team TARDIS have ended up back in 1950s America, prompting Ryan to say "here we go again". They later express their relief upon realising they are not in Alabama. (TV: Rosa)
• The Doctor, while speaking to Abner Endicott, mentions having been a boy, to Endicott's confusion. (TV: An Unearthly Child, et al.)