Outta Space (comic story)

Outta Space
Main character(s):	Dicky Howett Tim Quinn
Featuring:	The Doctor's TARDIS
Key crew
Publisher:	Target Books
Writer:	Tim Quinn & Dicky Howett
Artist:	Tim Quinn & Dicky Howett
Release details
Printed in:	The Doctor Who Fun Book
Release date:	21 May 1987
Reprinted in:	It's Even Bigger on the Inside
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Outta Space was the last comic story in in Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett's The Doctor Who Fun Book. A metafictional epilogue to the book, it featured Howett and Quinn themselves as characters, after they had already been mentioned as such earlier on in Who Was 'Ere!.

Summary

Mr Howett and Mr Quinn have finished writing and illustrating every single page of The Doctor Who Fun Book and they must now reluctantly return to their usual job — working the huge bellows which produces the TARDIS's "Vworp! Vworp!" sound every time it dematerialises!

Characters

• Dicky Howett
• Tim Quinn

References

• The bellows is emblazoned "BBC Sound Effects".

Notes

• The actual TV series would eventually give its own comedic answer to the origin of the TARDIS's iconic "wheezing, groaning sound" in The Time of Angels, where it is claimed to be the result of the TARDIS brakes being left on.