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Gangland was the fourth story of the Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor comic story series published in 2015.
Summary
A brand new story begins, as the Doctor and Clara are forced to ally with gangsters on the Vegas strip to combat an even more terrifying foe!
Will the Doctor's morals prove as alien as the unearthly invaders — or can he triumph without compromise... in Gangland?
Plot
Part one
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Part two
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Characters
References
Clara Oswald
- Clara says her dad is a big fan of boxing, especially Sonny Lawson.
Rassilon
- Rassilon's Alliance of Races includes Zygons, Judoon, Hath, Vigil, Sontarans, Silurians and Ice Warriors.
- The Time-Gun of Rassilon is contained on Janizzar.
- Rassilon's roulette is not as commonly known as Russian roulette.
- The Doctor says the incident between Rassilon and Count D'if with the Time-Gun was the first time the Time Lords feared Rassilon, but not the last.
Sonny Lawson
- The Doctor thinks Sonny could make a major difference to the civil rights movement.
References to the real world
- One of the agents remembers seeing giant ants in the film Them! as a kid.
- Sonny mentions Frank Sinatra.
Notes
Original print details
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Continuity
- Rassilon formed the Alliance of Races following the Hyperion War. (COMIC: Terrorformer)
- Clara describes the 60s as the era of flower power, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and love and peace. The Eleventh Doctor described it in a similar way. (AUDIO: Hunters of Earth)
- The Doctor refers to the gamblers as "pudding-heads". (TV: Deep Breath et al.)
- Clara recalls that the Doctor has encountered the Daleks, Cybermen, the Fractures and Hyperions before. (TV: Into the Dalek, Nightmare in Silver, COMIC: The Fractures, Terrorformer) She also remembers meeting the Ice Warriors. (TV: Cold War)
- Clara says the Doctor has gambled with her life many times. (TV: Face the Raven)
- Sonny suspects the Doctor is Scottish. (TV: Deep Breath et al.)
- Clara uses the psychic paper. (TV: The End of the World et al.)
- One of the agents talks about the Roswell crash, and suspects the government locked up aliens. (TV: Dreamland)