Up Above the Gods (comic story)

Up Above the Gods
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Featuring:	Davros
Main setting:	Cloister Room
Key crew
Publisher:	Marvel Comics UK
Editor:	Gary Gillatt
Writer:	Richard Alan
Artist:	Lee Sullivan
Letterer:	Richard Starkings / Comicraft
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Printed in:	DWM 227
Release date:	8 June 1995
Cover date:	5 July 1995
Reprinted in:	Daleks: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection - Volume 2
Format:	Comic
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Up Above the Gods was a Sixth Doctor comic strip published in Doctor Who Magazine in 1995, during a period in which the DWM comics featured past Doctors. However, the story tied-in to the Seventh Doctor comic story Emperor of the Daleks! released two years previously. It was set between the first and fourth parts of Emperor of the Daleks!

The title was derived from a conversation between the Fourth Doctor and Davros in TV: Genesis of the Daleks, and this strip acted as a continuation of the debate.

Summary

Having rescued Davros from his creations on Skaro in his TARDIS, the Sixth Doctor offers him an army of Daleks, with the possibility that they be lifted from their obsession with mindless universal domination.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Sixth Doctor
• Davros

Worldbuilding

• Davros states that the Kaleds were at war with the Thals for centuries.

Notes

The Doctor in Up Above the Gods.

The Doctor in Real Time.

• Illustrations of the Sixth Doctor from this comic were adapted for use in the webcast Real Time.
• The title comes from a line in one of Davros' monologues in the television story Genesis of the Daleks. There, it references a hypothetical omnicidal virus. In its full context: "That power would set me up above the gods. And through the Daleks I shall have that power!"'
• This story and Emperor of the Daleks set up the events of the television story Remembrance of the Daleks. Interestingly, the depiction of Davros's accident matches the account first given in the latter story's 1990 novelisation.

Continuity

• The Doctor reminds Davros of the time they first met, when he was only interested in securing the survival of his people. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)
• The Doctor mentions a planet where an army of thousands of Daleks lies frozen, (TV: Planet of the Daleks) which he intends to take Davros too. (COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!)

External links

• Up Above the Gods at the Doctor Who Reference Guide