The Moderator (comic story)

The Moderator
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Companion(s):	Gus
Main enemy:	Josiah W. Dogbolter
Main setting:	Celeste
Key crew
Publisher:	Marvel Comics
Editor:	Alan McKenzie
Writer:	Steve Parkhouse
Artist:	Steve Dillon
Release details
Number of parts:	3
Printed in:	DWM 84, 86-87
Release date:	8 December 1983, 9 February - 8 March 1984
Reprinted in:	The Tides of Time
Format:	Comic
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The Moderator was the final regular Fifth Doctor comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine.

Plot

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Characters

• Fifth Doctor
• Angus Goodman
• Josiah W. Dogbolter
• The Moderator
• Hob
• Wrekka
• Malcolm
• Nigel

Worldbuilding

• Intra-Venus owns Warworld Investments, Cybernetics International, and Martian Munitions.
• Dogbolter owns Mars, Jupiter, and Venus, as well as "a score" of worlds in other solar systems. His influence also stretches to Phobos and Warworld.
• The Moderator finds Zyglots on Magellan.

Notes

• This comic strip was reprinted as part of The Tides of Time graphic novel published by Panini Comics in May 2005.
• The last words spoken by the Fifth Doctor in his comic book tenure are; "Well, it's not Akron, Ohio, but it's Earth. The same time, the same place that we first met!"

Continuity

• The Moderator mentions the Freefall Warriors, who the Doctor had met in his fourth incarnation. (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Free-Fall Warriors)

External links

• The Moderator at the Doctor Who Reference Guide