Jungle of Doom (comic story)
Jungle of Doom was a TV Comic story featuring the Second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon.
Summary
In a jungle on an unnamed world, the Quarks spot the Doctor's TARDIS' arrival and immediately bury it under rubble. The Second Doctor and Jamie run as a Quark hit-squad comes after them. They barely stay ahead of their pursuers.
They come to a site where workmen are clearing the jungle. After getting the workmen to run, the Doctor and Jamie decide to defend themselves with the bulldozers. While the Quarks blast the scoop from Jamie's vehicle, the squad is destroyed. The Doctor and Jamie try to get back to the TARDIS, passing close by the enemy's ship on the way, but then come under attack by the jungle's natives, unwilling human agents of the Quarks!
The Doctor uses the bulldozer to escape but the natives warn the Quarks. The Doctor puts some distance between the bulldozer and the Quarks and then makes some modifications to the machine, removing its silencer. When he starts the engine, the noise starts a stampede among the local wildlife which destroys the Quarks (and almost the Doctor too!). He then refits the silencer and uses the bulldozer to clear the rubble around the TARDIS.
Characters
Worldbuilding
- The jungle planet is near the Quark home planet.
- The jungle planet is home to leopards, hippopotamuses, cheetahs, antelopes, rhinoceroses, elephants, zebras and buffalos.
Notes
- While Invasion of the Quarks showed the Quarks using a the spaceship design seen in the television serial The Dominators, this story introduced a new Quark craft which would appear in subsequent TV Comic Quark stories.
- According to The Terrestrial Index, this story is also titled Hunted By the Quarks and The Hunted.
Original print details
(Publication with page count and closing captions)
- TVC 885 (2 pages) Next week Dr. Who and Jamie make an action-packed stand against the Quarks
- TVC 886 (2 pages) Mechanical monsters versus the power of the Quarks... Don't miss the outcome next week!
- TVC 887 (2 pages) The Doctor and Jamie are sitting ducks! See the dramatic outcome next week!
- TVC 888 (2 pages) Next week the charging beasts of the jungle clash with the Quarks! Don't miss next week's thrills!
- TVC 889 (2 pages) A new all-action adventure starts next week!
Continuity
- Jamie alludes to his and the Doctor's past battles with the Quarks. (COMIC: Invasion of the Quarks, The Killer Wasps)
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