The Enemy from Nowhere (comic story)

The Enemy from Nowhere
Doctor:	Third Doctor
Companion(s):	Jenkins
Main enemy:	Zerons
Main setting:	Cornwall, 1970s
Key crew
Publisher:	Polystyle
Writer:	Dennis Hooper
Artist:	Gerry Haylock
Release details
Number of parts:	8
Printed in:	TV Action 71-78
Release date:	24 June - 12 August 1972
Reprinted in:	DWCC 12
Format:	Comic
TVA comic stories
← Previous	A Stitch in Time
Next →	The Ugrakks

The Enemy from Nowhere was a Third Doctor comic story published in TV Action.

Summary

The Doctor is invited to Dowmphilly tracking station to observe the launch of a new space platform. However, the platform is in fact a launch pad for a nuclear arsenal. When a mysterious object is detected approaching earth it is assumed to be a meteor and, despite the Doctor's warnings, the space platform use it as target practice for a nuclear missile. As the missile has no effect it soon becomes clear that the object is a spacecraft, In retaliation, the space platform is apparently destroyed. Fearful that the Earth has instigated a space war what it cannot hope to win, the Doctor travels in the TARDIS to the alien vessel to confront its unseen occupants.

Characters

• Third Doctor
• Davie Jenkins
• Weatherall
• Sir Ian MacGregor
• General
• Sir Malcolm Ruttsby
• Carl
• Joe
• Fred
• Secretary

Worldbuilding

• The general asks whether the alien menace is anti-matter, which the Doctor says is "quite another thing".

Notes

• These Zerons are not those from the later story Zeron Invasion, nor are they the Xerons from The Space Museum.

Original print details

(Publication with page count and closing captions)

• TVA 71 (3 pages) A military mystery for the Doctor... / ...or a new enemy in time? See next week!
• TVA 72 (3 pages) Next week the Doctor's plan's upset... / ...and the world's future is in peril!
• TVA 73 (3 pages) Next week, a threat to Earth... / ...and the Doctor is powerless!
• TVA 74 (3 pages) What are the Doctor's fears? / ...see next week!
• TVA 75 (3 pages) Earth is threatened by an invisible attack... / ...follow the Doctor's mystery journey, next week!
• TVA 76 (3 pages) Next week Earth's envoys are in trouble... / ...and the Doctor faces an unexpected foe!
• TVA 77 (3 pages) Next week, Earth is inches from destruction... / ...and the Doctor takes a gamble with death!
• TVA 78 (3 pages) The Doctor's time journey continues until... / ...he meets the UGRAKK—next week!

Note: The closing caption for each instalment was split over the second and third pages of the strip.

Continuity

to be added

External links

• The Enemy from Nowhere at the Doctor Who Reference Guide