Bat Attack! (comic story)
Summary
After helping Inspector Lestrade solve "the case of the unsuitable suiter" and stop the evil Professor Janus getting married (!), the Doctor and Rose leave to catch a cab to Waterloo, boat train to Paris and a night spent at Le Moulin Rouge. Their journey, however is interupted no sooner than begun with a cloud of vampire bats that, blocking out the sun, cogregate above one of the London theatres. Following the bats, the Doctor and Rose's timely arrival stops a young girl from being attacked by a bat. But all is not as it seems. The theatre is rehersing for Bram Stokers' new producting - Dracula. Bram is supported and assisted by his wife Florence who warns her husband that the real Count Dracula has arrived from Transylvania and, furious that his and his family's name are being wrongfully misrepresented, he arrives intent on exacting his revenge on the writer who tells lies, by killing him.Florence saves her husband from the real Count revealing herself to be a vampire having been bitten some twenty years earlier by Oscar Wilde who is currently serving a sentence at Reading Gaol.
For twenty years Florence had fed on a diet of small cats and mammals. Bram has protected and supported his wife as she him. The Doctor identifies this type of vampirism as an alien disease, a virus strain, and offers to help. In order to save Florence (and the kittens), the Doctor must first find a cure for Oscar and, together with Rose, head off to Rading Gaol.
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Original Print Details (Publication with page count and closing captions)
- DWA Issue 11 (6 pages split )
- DWA Issue 12 (6 pages split )
Reprints
- None to date
Notes
- The DWAM comic strip adventures were very much aimed at a younger audience and the artwork and colours was bold and bright reflecting the tone of the magazine..
- Self contained one part stories were the norm in the early issues later being expanded to two-parters.
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