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Released

Thursday, September 28, 1995

Written by

Gareth Roberts

Publisher

Marvel Comics

Pages

8

Time Travel

Past

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Shoreditch, King's Cross tube station

Synopsis

Susan is hanging out in a bar during a poetry recital and sees a man mutating into an alien life form. When she tells her grandfather, he decides they must investigate. They find a secret laboratory below the tube tunnels in central London. An alien called Raldonn is carrying out mutagentic experiments to create a pilot of a genetic make-up similar to himself to assist in flying his ship.

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This starts out as an outstanding story and peaks at the point at which the humans of London start mutating en masse, but as a reader you suspect there is a pretty perfunctory reset coming, which is indeed what you get.

Despite this it captures the First Doctor and Susan perfectly and has the extra thrill of being the first licensed story to be set before An Unearthly Child.


This review contains spoilers!

The First Doctor #28

'Operation Proteus' (1995) from Doctor Who Magazine 231-233.


Love how some of these stories introduce a villain as though they've always existed, or they know The Doctor in some unexplained way. It seems to crop up now and again in these stories. The Doctor and Susan are drawn and written to perfection in this comic, and the story is a perfectly fine comic book story. Nothing outstanding but serves the characters well, and it's nice to see The Doctor commanding a situation and bark at people like he does here.


love a 1st n susan story not really sure if i want more of them or less haha


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