Doorway to Hell (comic story)

Doorway to Hell
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Jess, Maxwell, Devina, Lloyd
Featuring:	Hayes, Gabriel, Tibbsy
Main enemy:	The Master
Main setting:	London, 1973 Unnamed planet
Key crew
Publisher:	Panini Comics
Editor:	Scott Gray
Writer:	Mark Wright
Artist:	Staz Johnson
Colourist:	James Offredi
Letterer:	Roger Langridge
Release details
Number of parts:	4
Printed in:	DWM 508 - 511
Release date:	12 January - 6 April 2017
Cover date:	February - May 2017
Reprinted in:	Doorway to Hell
Format:	Comic
DWM comic stories
← Previous	Be Forgot
Next →	The Soul Garden

Doorway to Hell was a comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine in 2017, ending the ongoing arc the Doctor living with the Collins family in the early 1970s while his TARDIS repaired itself following a system overload.

It was notable for including Roger Delgado's incarnation of the Master, and featured the beginnings of his regeneration at the end of the story. This "plugging" of a hole in the Master's timeline notably conflicted with the version of the Delgado Master's demise featured in the earlier novel, Legacy of the Daleks, as well as supported the account suggested in the previous year's Big Finish Productions's so-called "multi-Master trilogy", which introduced a post-Delgado incarnation of the Master, played by Geoffrey Beevers, who was later burnt by his future self.

Doorway to Hell also made another addition to fundamental Doctor Who lore in confirming, from the mouth of the Master himself, that TARDISes' ability to repair themselves with a new appearance following great trauma was, in fact, a form of regeneration in its own right.

Plot

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Characters

• Twelfth Doctor
• Jess Collins
• Maxwell Collins
• Devina Collins
• Lloyd Collins
• The Master
• Jack Hayes
• Katya Dabrowski
• Kiadine
• Gabriel Gayle
• Perkins
• Tibbsy

Worldbuilding

• The Master uses the alias of "Professor Dominar".

Notes

• Doorway to Hell is set after the Doctor and the Master's "affair with the Daleks and Draconians", referring to TV: Frontier in Space, the last appearance of Roger Delgado as the Master prior to his death.
• The appearance of the Master's regeneration energy resembles the effect used on television since The Parting of the Ways in 2005.

Original print details

(Publication with page count and closing captions)

• DWM 508 (12 pages) Next: Falling to Hell
• DWM 509 (12 pages) Next: Master Plan
• DWM 510 (12 pages) Next: Death in Hell
• DWM 511 (12 pages) The End

Continuity

• The Doctor tells Gabriel that he is a bad loser. (COMIC: The Board Games)
• Hayle has become the police's go-to-guy for unusual cases since he helped the Doctor see off the Kolothosan in Epping Forest. (COMIC: Bloodsport)
• The Master mentions how Lloyd's body was changed by an alien bacteria as Devina had to watch him nearly die, (COMIC: The Pestilent Heart) and when Max was abducted by Skadi and Broteas as Jess was hunted down. (COMIC: Bloodsport)
• Through his TARDIS' scanner, the Master watched the Doctor's TARDIS explode over Brixton, (COMIC: The Pestilent Heart) just as he escaped from the affair with the Daleks and Draconians. (TV: Frontier in Space)
• The Doctor tells the Master that he is from far in his future, and that he is four-billion-years-old. Ohila had previously mentioned the Doctor had spent four-and-a-half billion years inside his confession dial. (TV: Hell Bent)