To start out my Doctor
Who month tribute, I started with essentially who was for a very long time
considered the all-time best Doctor, the 4th- Tom Baker! This issue
might have been the first Marvel issue, but the Doctor had appeared years early
in no less than 4 issues of Marvel Premiere.
All of these issues are
reprints of the long running Marvel UK title, Doctor Who Monthly. This issue
starts out with a pair of students finding an E.T. like creature whose targeted
for death by a mysterious insect-like alien race. These insects just happened to
have captured the Doctor and planted a bomb in his stomach!
There’s also a tale
about the Daleks. The Doctor isn’t even in the story. That’s because the Daleks
are so friggin’ huge across the pond; they starred in their own comics years
before the Doctor did.
I like the Tom Baker
adventures. But this issue was published in 1984, 3 years after Baker’s last
appearance on the show. Why by this point, his replacement, Peter Davison is no
longer the Doctor either. So, I am not really sure why Marvel didn’t start with
Colin Baker’s tales.
The stories are good,
the art is top notch and very British. A good read for a fan of the original
series. However, a couple of the pin-ups in the middle of this volume look
nothing like the actors they are to resemble. Bad form!
But still, Worth
Consuming.
Rating 8 out of 10
stars.
Wibbly Wobbly, Timey
Wimey Scale: 9 out of 10.
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