Combat Colin (series)
Combat Colin was a comic series created by Lew Stringer and originally published by Marvel UK across several publications from 1988 to 1991, at which point Marvel dropped their comedy strips, and gave Stringer the rights to the character, allowing him to create further comics featuring him and elements from the series. It was set within Stringer's "Lewniverse".[1][2]
Crossovers[[edit] | [edit source]]
A highly-recurring location in the Lewniverse is the city of Skegpool, which has appeared across several comics, and which first appeared in Combat Colin.
One entry into this shared universe is The Daft Dimension, which featured the location twice, in its eighty-ninth instalment [+]Loading...["The Daft Dimension (DWM 568 comic story)","eighty-ninth instalment"] (DWM 568), and its one-hundred-and-second instalment [+]Loading...["The Daft Dimension (DWM 581 comic story)","one-hundred-and-second instalment"] (DWM 581), thus crossing the two series over.
Perhaps the strongest connection between Combat Colin and Doctor Who occurs through the Gwanzulums, the creation of John Freeman and Richard Starkings. The pair created the species in an attempt to illustrate a "secret invasion", crossing over numerous franchises in an attempt to see if anyone would notice. The alien race debuted in Combat Colin then later appeared in ThunderCats and The Real Ghostbusters comics. Finally, the race featured significantly in the Doctor Who Magazine comic Planet of the Dead [+]Loading...["Planet of the Dead (comic story)"].
References to the DWU in Combat Colin[[edit] | [edit source]]
Although seemingly non-licensed, a Dalek made a cameo appearance in Christmas with Combat Colin, printed in Transformers (UK) #250, along with several other crossover characters, including Spider-Man, Thor, Captain America, the Hulk, Scarlet Witch, and the Thing.
