Business As Usual
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| Business As Usual | |
| Series: | Doctor Who - Back-up Comic Strip Stories |
| Main Character: | |
| Featuring: | |
| Enemy: | Nestene, Autons |
| Setting: | |
| Author: | Alan Moore |
| Editor: | Dez Skinn |
| Artist: | Dave Lloyd |
| Colourist: | |
| Lettering: | no credit given |
| Published In: | Doctor Who Magazine Issues 40 |
| Publication: | 17th July 1980 |
| Publisher: | Marvel Comics |
| Format: | B&W 4 parts / 8 pages |
| Previous Story: | Black Legacy |
| Following Story: | Star Death |
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[edit] Summary
In 1989, ex-plumber Winston Blunt finds a sphere that’s one of six fallen from the sky. Winston soon patents a new method of bonding carbon atoms and sets up Galaxy Plastics Inc. Before shooting himself, he appoints a Mr. Dolman to run the company. When industrial spy Max Fisher breaks into the factory, he is attacked by plastic action figures before being caught by Dolman and the Nestene Intelligence. Max throws a spanner that damages the Nestene tank and causes an explosion, but Max is pursued by the remains of the Dolman Auton. Max Fisher dies in a car accident whilst fighting miniature dolls but in the August of 1990 one Max Fisher invests money in a plastics factory and leaves behind flowers on a shallow grave — plastic flowers of course!
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[edit] Original Print Details
(Publication with page count and closing captions)
- DWM Issue 40 (2) … To be Continued
- DWM Issue 41 (2) To be Continued ...
- DWM Issue 42 (2)
- DWM Issue 43 (2) The End
[edit] Reprints
- Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in Doctor Who (Marvel Comics).
- Reprinted in the DWMS Summer 1981.
- This story was repeated as a one part story in DWM Issue 184 as a filler for a delay in the regular ongoing adventures of the main Doctor led comic strip (Evening's Empire)
[edit] Notes
- This is one of five collaborations between writer Alan Moore and illustrator David Lloyd, who would go on to create the graphic novel V for Vendetta.
- This back up strip story was introduced and tailed by the Fourth Doctor as if recounting a story.
- For the DWM Issue 184 reprint the opening frame sees the Fourth Doctor replaced with the Seventh Doctor.
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