Outta Space (comic story)

Outta Space
Main character(s):	Dicky Howett Tim Quinn
Featuring:	The Doctor's TARDIS
Key crew
Publisher:	Target Books
Writers:	Tim Quinn, Dicky Howett
Artist:	Tim Quinn, Dicky Howett
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Printed in:	The Doctor Who Fun Book
Release date:	21 May 1987
Reprinted in:	It's Even Bigger on the Inside
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Outta Space was the last comic story in in Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett's The Doctor Who Fun Book. A metafictional epilogue to the book, it featured Howett and Quinn themselves as characters, after they had already been mentioned as such earlier on in Who Was 'Ere! ^[+]Loading...["Who Was 'Ere! (comic story)"].

Summary

Mr Howett and Mr Quinn have finished writing and illustrating every single page of The Doctor Who Fun Book and they must now reluctantly return to their usual job — working the huge bellows which produces the TARDIS's "Vworp! Vworp!" sound every time it dematerialises!

Characters

• Dicky Howett
• Tim Quinn

Worldbuilding

• The bellows is emblazoned "BBC Sound Effects".

Notes

• The actual TV series would eventually give its own comedic answer to the origin of the TARDIS's iconic "wheezing, groaning sound" in The Time of Angels ^[+]Loading...["The Time of Angels (TV story)"], where it is claimed to be the result of the TARDIS brakes being left on.