The King of Earth (comic story)
Opening Tag
The Doctor is about to be blown into smithereens!
Summary
The Doctor asks the Nin to freeeze the Hoolox's missiles before they hit the Earth while he sorts things out. He uses his sonic screwdriver to teleport to Earth and arrives in a garden shed where he finds a young boy called Robbie. Robbie is playing with a mobile handheld device that he had found. The Doctor returns to the Nin ship with Robbie, where the boy explains he thought it was a game device, not real. But it doesn't help. The Hoolox and the Ssraar join forces but their weapons are useless against the advanced technoloogy of the Nin. The Doctor takes the device from Robbie and calls the owner of the mobile device. The mobile belongs to Fliant Wormbleeder an intergalactic estate agent who appears as a hologram and on the Doctor's request, looks through his catalogue to find suitable homes for all three alien races. War is averted and the Doctor returns Robbie home.
ArtistLee Sullivan
Characters
Original Print Details
(Instalment, publication with page count and closing captions)
- 2/2 Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 66 (4 pages) THE END!
- No reprints to date.
Notes
- Supporting the series of collectable Doctor Who trading cards, the magazine title, carried a regular 4 page comic strip series of the Tenth Doctor’s adventures.
- The limitation of only 4 pages meant that stories often lacked some depth in comparison to other regular comic strips running at the same time.
- Style wise, the artwork and colours were bold and bright reflecting the tone of the magazine and, as with Doctor Who Adventures (Magazine), it reflected the appeal to younger readers than that catered for by Doctor Who Magazine.
References
- The Battles in Time comic strip often sought to reinforce the Doctor character with that as seen on screen by utilising various ‘props’ used in the TV series. Namely; blue/brown suit, sonic screwdriver, psychic paper and his intelligent glasses.
- The sonic screwdriver strangely seems to have the power to transport the Doctor between Earth and the Nin ship.
References
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Continuity
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