Universal Monsters (comic story)

Universal Monsters
Doctor:	Tenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Martha
Main setting:	A planet
Key crew
Publisher:	Panini Comics
Editor:	Tom Spilsbury & Scott Gray
Writer:	Ian Edginton
Artist:	Adrian Salmon
Letterer:	Roger Langridge
Release details
Number of parts:	3
Printed in:	Doctor Who Magazine 391 - 393
Release date:	10 January - 6 March 2008
Cover date:	6 February - 2 April 2008
Reprinted in:	The Widow's Curse
Format:	Comic
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Universal Monsters was a comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine in 2008.

Synopsis

The Doctor and Martha visit a village, where there are stories of an evil man living in a castle. But is he actually the real villain?

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Tenth Doctor
• Martha Jones
• The Thane
• Viktor
• Gideon
• Cora
• Widow Margaret

Worldbuilding

• The Doctor jokes that his "spider sense just started tingling".
• Martha compares the Thane to Prince Charles when she hears of his occasional visits to the village.
• The Doctor compares Viktor to Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the keep to a Disneyland in Transylvania.

Story notes

to be added

Original print details

(Publication with page count and closing captions)

1. DWM 391 (9 pages) Next: The Man in the High Castle!
2. DWM 392 (9 pages) Next: Village of the Damned!
3. DWM 393 (9 pages) The End

Continuity

• Martha mentions being threatened by Judoon, (TV: Smith and Jones) pig slave and the Cult of Skaro. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan)
• The Doctor once again says he's got a "fightin' hand". (TV: The Christmas Invasion)

External links

• Universal Monsters at the Doctor Who Reference Guide