The Chameleon Factor (comic story)

The Chameleon Factor
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Ace
Featuring:	Second Doctor, Ben, Polly
Main setting:	Inside the Doctor's TARDIS
Key crew
Publisher:	Marvel Comics
Editor:	John Freeman
Writer:	Paul Cornell
Artist:	Lee Sullivan
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Printed in:	DWM 174
Release date:	16 May 1991
Cover date:	12 June 1991
Reprinted in:	The Good Soldier
Format:	Comic
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The Chameleon Factor was a Seventh Doctor comic strip published in Doctor Who Magazine.

Summary

The Seventh Doctor finds his first incarnation's signet ring stuck in the TARDIS console and, having recovered it, decides to start wearing it again.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Seventh Doctor
• Ace

Flashback

• Second Doctor
• Ben Jackson
• Polly Wright

Worldbuilding

to be added

Notes

Promotional image (DWM 181)

• The Second Doctor, Ben and Polly appear in a flashback to shortly after his regeneration.
• The new "Virgin New Adventures" TARDIS console room makes its debut, just prior to the beginning of the series. It would remain as the TARDIS console room for the DWM run until COMIC: Final Genesis.
• A promotional image for The Chameleon Factor by Lee Sullivan was published in DWM 181.

Continuity

• The Doctor's signet ring interfaces with the chameleon circuit, which he had thought was gone for good. (TV: The Power of the Daleks)
• Ace gets spooked by a manifestation of Sutekh, just as Sarah Jane Smith had with the real one. (TV: Pyramids of Mars)