Eskimo Joe (comic story)

Eskimo Joe

Key crew

Writer:

John Canning

Artist:

John Canning

Release details

Printed in:

TV Comic 903-906

Release date:

5 - 26 April 1969

Format:

Comic - 4 parts (8 pages)

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Eskimo Joe was a TV Comic story starring the Second Doctor.

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The Doctor lands on a snow-covered planet and decides to have a ski. He sees a group of Cybermen and turns to get back to the TARDIS at once but slips into a crevasse. The Cybermen notice him falling and when they also see the TARDIS they are delighted to think that their enemy is dead. They go back to their base to tell the rest of the Cyber Empire the good news.

The Doctor has managed to grab hold of the edge of the crevasse and is pulled to safety by Eskimo Joe and his robot gull. Joe tells him that his own people have been attacked by the Cyberman and those that survived are scattered and hiding. He is going to use his robot gulls and egg bombs to fight back but the Cybermen have locked onto the gulls' control frequency and are using it to track Joe.

Joe and the Doctor use the gulls' bombs to escape the Cybermen and head for the base. The Doctor realises that the bombs are nearly all gone and uses the last to start an avalanche. It buries the base and kills the Cybermen.

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Many Arctic people now consider the word "eskimo" to be an offensive slur, and it is generally considered to be unacceptable today — although the word is still used in some legal contexts and the appropriateness of the label continues to be debated. However, in 1969 Britain, the word used in the title of this story was still widely accepted, and would certainly not have provoked any negative reaction from the target audience of the comic, at any rate.

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(Publication with page count and closing captions)

TVC 903 (2 pages) Has the doctor met his end? Don't miss next week's gripping episode!
TVC 904 (2 pages) Don't miss the thrills
TVC 905 (2 pages) Next week the Doctor and Joe attack the Cyber-Base!
TVC 906 (2 pages) Dr. Who begins an all-action 'underwater' adventure in next week's TV Comic!

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Second Doctor TVC comic stories

1966

Weekly strip

The Extortioner

1967

Weekly strip	The Extortioner • The Trodos Ambush • The Doctor Strikes Back • The Zombies • Master of Spiders • The Exterminator • The Monsters from the Past • The TARDIS Worshippers • Space War Two • Egyptian Escapade • The Coming of the Cybermen • The Faithful Rocket Pack • Flower Power • The Witches

Holiday Special	Barnabus • Jungle Adventure • TV Comic's Counter Game

Annual stories	Attack of the Daleks • Pursued by the Trods

All stories feature John and Gillian.

1968

Weekly strip	The Witches • Cyber-Mole • The Sabre-Toothed Gorillas • The Cyber Empire • The Dyrons • Dr. Who and the Space Pirates • Car of the Century • The Jokers • Invasion of the Quarks • The Killer Wasps • Ice Cap Terror • Jungle of Doom

Holiday Special	Return of the Witches • Masquerade • TV Comic's Counter Game

Annual stories	The Time Museum • The Electrodes • Test Flight

John and Gillian feature until Invasion of the Quarks, when they are replaced by Jamie.

1969

Weekly strip	Father Time • Martha the Mechanical Housemaid • The Duellists • Eskimo Joe • Peril at 60 Fathoms • Operation Wurlitzer • Action in Exile • The Mark of Terror • The Brotherhood • U.F.O. • The Night Walkers

Holiday Special	The Champion • The Entertainer • Basil Brush goes Rent Collecting

Annual stories	Death Race • Test Flight

Jamie disappears after Martha the Mechanical Housemaid, leaving the Doctor alone. The Doctor's exile begins in Action in Exile.

All weekly stories drawn by John Canning, continuing his creative run from the First Doctor in 1966 to the Third Doctor in 1971.

Cyberman stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Cyberman story" is one in which one living, authentic Cyberman plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story. For this reason, stories such as Dalek are absent due to only featuring deceased Cybermen on display. Stories like Carnival of Monsters, A Good Man Goes to War and The Vanquishers are also not included due to the Cybermen's appearance being of little consequence to the plot of the story.

Television

The Tenth Planet • The Moonbase • The Tomb of the Cybermen • The Wheel in Space • The Invasion • Revenge of the Cybermen • Earthshock • The Five Doctors • Attack of the Cybermen • Silver Nemesis • Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel • Army of Ghosts / Doomsday • Cyberwoman • The Next Doctor • The Pandorica Opens • Closing Time • Nightmare in Silver • The Time of the Doctor • Dark Water / Death in Heaven • World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls • The Haunting of Villa Diodati • Ascension of the Cybermen / The Timeless Children • Flux: Once, Upon Time • The Power of the Doctor

Webcast

TARDIS Cam No.1 - The Moonscape • Real Time • Tardisode 6 • Tardisode 13 • Monster File: Cybermen • What if robots replaced teachers?

Audio

Sword of Orion • Spare Parts • Real Time • The Harvest • Silver Lining • Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Crystal of Cantus • The Reaping • The Gathering • The Blue Tooth • Human Resources • The Girl Who Never Was • The Ultimate Adventure • Kingdom of Silver • Legend of the Cybermen • The Silver Turk • Last of the Cybermen • Return to Telos • The Isos Network • The Tyrants of Logic • Code Silver / Master of Worlds • Hour of the Cybermen • Conversion • Return of the Cybermen • The Gates of Hell • Scourge of the Cybermen • Altered Status • Monsters in Metropolis • Secrets of Telos • Way of the Burryman / The Forth Generation • Bad Day in Tinseltown • Willkommen • Wulf • Übermensch • Auf Wiedersehen • The Great Cyber-War • Sins of the Flesh

Cyberman

Scorpius • Fear • Conversion • Telos • Outsiders • Terror • Machines • Extinction

Prose

Novels	Iceberg • Killing Ground • Illegal Alien • Warmonger • Loving the Alien • Made of Steel • Plague of the Cybermen • Dr. First • Scratchman • The Self-Made Man

Short stories	Birth of a Renegade • Heliotrope Bouquet • Scientific Adviser • Vrs • Going Off the Rails • Cybermen: Status Update • The Piper • The Mondas Touch • The Patchwork Pierrot • Consultation Exercise • Alit in Underland • Ghost in the Machine • The Heist • A Girl Called Doubt

Features	Cybermen

Comics

The Coming of the Cybermen • Flower Power • Cyber-Mole • The Cyber Empire • Eskimo Joe • Masquerade • The Time Museum • Test Flight • Junk-Yard Demon • Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman • Deathworld • Black Legacy • Revelation! • Genesis! • The World Shapers • The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic • The Good Soldier • Dreadnought • The Flood • The Power of the Cybermen / Drones of Doom / Enemy Mine / Time of the Cybermen • Assimilation² • Doctor Who and the Last Stand • The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who • Conversion • Untitled • Cyber Crisis • Supremacy of the Cybermen • The Bidding War • The Lost Dimension • High Noon in Hollywood

The Cybermen	The Dead Heart • The Flesh Unbound • The Black Sky • The Hungry Sea • The Dark Flame • The Future Perfect • The Ugly Underneath • The Prodigal Returns

Supremacy of the Cybermen prologues	The First Doctor • The Second Doctor • The Third Doctor • The Fourth Doctor • The Fifth Doctor • The Sixth Doctor • The Seventh Doctor • The Eighth Doctor • The War Doctor

Video
games

Destiny of the Doctors • Airships • Cyber Assault • Ghostwatch • Eye of the TARDIS • Return to Earth • The Mazes of Time • Blood of the Cybermen • Dalek Supremacy • The Eternity Clock • The Doctor and the Dalek • Lost in Time • Hidden Mysteries

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