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The Third Doctor comic stories is a range of offscreen adventures featuring the third incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the hit sc-fi series, Doctor Who.
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The Third Doctor comic stories is a range of offscreen adventures featuring the third incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the hit sc-fi series, Doctor Who.
During the early 1970s, the adventures of the Third Doctor in comic mainly ran in two similar formats, TV Comic and Countdown, and as with every incarnation of the Doctor, the Third Doctor featured in Doctor Who Annuals.
Due to the Third Doctor's exile on Earth for most of his tenure, these comics are notable for including UNIT in a large number of stories, in particular, UNIT's founder and the Doctor's sidekick, The Brigadier, with adventures featuring just them as principal characters being set between Inferno and Terror of the Autons .
Following The Three Doctors, which saw the Doctor's exile lifted, the comics were allowed to expand, taking the Doctor on new adventures across time and space.
| # | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Arkwood Experiments" | The Brigadier | Roger Cook | January - February 1970 | |
| Investigating an attack on a zoo, the Doctor and UNIT are led to Arkwood Private School. But the Doctor is too late to stop crazed child genius, Cedric Matthews, from unleashing a mystery drug that turns his friends into animals. With this drug, he intends to take over Britain and reduce humanity to a raging beast... | |||||
| 2 | "The Multi-Mobile" | The Brigadier and UNIT | Roger Cook | February - March 1970 | |
| The Doctor and UNIT are called to investigate when three foreign agents hijack an advanced armoured vehicle called ""The Multi-Mobile"" and plan to use it to destroy the British Nuclear Defence Control Centre. | |||||
| 3 | "Insect" | The Brigadier and UNIT | Roger Cook | April - May 1970 | |
| A new insecticide creates huge creatures and insects that rampage across Britain, leaving the Doctor racing against time to find an antidote before the creatures ravage the whole world. | |||||
| 4 | "The Metal Eaters" | Liz Shaw, the Brigadier and UNIT | NA | May - June 1970 | |
| A meteorite crash lands on Earth, releasing three groups of intelligent creatures who breathe metal. But as the Doctor and UNIT turn their attentions to examining the meteorite, the third group targets a plane transporting a group of schoolchildren abroad. | |||||
| 5 | "The Fishmen of Carpantha" | Liz Shaw, the Brigadier and UNIT | NA | June - July 1970 | |
| After discovering the existence of an underwater race called the Carpanthans, the Doctor and Liz are put on trial by the mysterious new Earth inhabitants for the destruction of their underwater city... UNIT's way of dealing with aliens has finally come back to haunt them. | |||||
| 6 | "Rocks from Venus" | The Brigadier | Alan Fennell | July - August 1970 | |
| 7 | "The Robot" | Professor Carl Readon | Alan Fennell | September - October 1970 | |
| 8 | "Trial By Fire" | Tom Streeter | Alan Fennell | 31 October - 12 December 1970 | |
| 9 | "The Kingdom Builders" | Mr Cooper | Alan Fennell | December 1970 - February 1971 | |
| 10 | "Children of the Evil Eye" | Arnold | TBA | September - October 1973 | |
| 11 | "Nova" | Arnold | TBA | October - December 1973 | |
| 12 | "The Amateur" | Arnold | TBA | December 1973 - January 1974 | |
| 13 | "The Desintegrator" | UNIT and the Daleks | TBA | February - March 1974 | |
| 14 | "Is Anyone There?" | TBA | TBA | March - May 1974 | |
| 15 | "Size Control" | TBA | TBA | May - June 1974 | |
| 16 | "The Magician" | TBA | TBA | July - August 1974 | |
| 17 | "The Metal-Eaters" | TBA | TBA | August - October 1974 | |
| 18 | "Lords of the Ether" | TBA | TBA | October - November 1974 | |
| 19 | "The Wanderers" | Time Lords | TBA | December 1974 - January 1975 | |
Sub-Zero (featuring the Daleks)
| # | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Assassin from Space" | TBA | Roger Cook | May 1970 |
| 2 | "Undercover" | UNIT | Roger Cook | May 1970 |
| 3 | "Fogbound" | The Brigadier and the Master, and UNIT | TBA | May 1973 |
| 4 | "Secrets of the Tower" | The Brigadier and UNIT | TBA | May 1973 |
| 5 | "Doomcloud" | Sarah Jane Smith | TBA | May 1974 |
| 6 | "Perils of Paris" | Sarah Jane Smith | TBA | May 1974 |
| 7 | "Who's who?" | Sarah Jane Smith | TBA | May 1974 |
| # | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Time Thief" | Jo Grant and UNIT | TBA | 1974 |
| 2 | "Menace of the Molags" | Jo Grant and UNIT | TBA | 1974 |
| 3 | "Dead on Arrival" | Jo Grant | TBA | 1975 |
| 4 | "After the Revolution" | Jo Grant | TBA | 1975 |
| # | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Change of Mind" | Liz Shaw, the Brigadier and UNIT | Kate Orman | January - March 1995 |
| 2 | "Target Practice" | Jo Grant, the Brigadier, UNIT and Ogrons | Gareth Roberts | 17 January 1996 |
| # | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Heralds of Destruction" | Jo Grant, the Brigadier, the Master, Salamander and UNIT | Paul Cornell | October 2016 - January 2017 |
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