The Genius Trap (comic story)

The Genius Trap

Doctor:

Tenth Doctor

Companion(s):

Heather, Wolfie

Main enemy:

The Bacothormeon

Main setting:

London, 2010

Key crew

Release details

Number of parts:

Printed in:

DWA 124

Release date:

16 July 2009

Format:

Comic

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The Genius Trap was a Doctor Who Adventures comic story featuring the Tenth Doctor, Heather McCrimmon and Wolfgang Ryter.

Summary[]

The Doctor and Wolfie return with Heather to Edinburgh University. They find the whole campus playing a new puzzle game and over the past days kids have been missing. The Doctor decides to find out about this game with Wolfie tagging along.

The Doctor gets one of these devices and completes it easily. He throws it away to get a space hopper. Wolfie catches it and is kidnapped by two crazy guys. He is taken to a Bacothormeon, which attempts to take Wolfie's brain, only to be stopped by the Doctor. The Doctor follows the signal to the alien and overloads its brain with his memories of ten lifetimes in one blast.

The alien is reduced to its natural state. The Doctor takes it home and the two guys are taken away by UNIT.

Characters[]

Worldbuilding[]

to be added

Notes[]

The DWA comic strip adventures were aimed at a younger audience and the artwork and colours were bold and bright, reflecting the tone of the magazine.
Self contained, one part stories were the norm in the early issues, later being expanded to two-parters.
This is the first and UNIT story in Doctor Who Adventures. As of 2020^[update], only two other stories in the series have featured UNIT, namely Big in Japan and Empire's Fall.

Original print details[]

Publication with page count and closing captions

DWA 124 (4 pages)

Continuity[]

to be added

DWA Tenth Doctor comic stories

Rose Tyler

Which Switch? • Mirror Image • Under the Volcano • Germ War • Warfreekz! • A Delicate Operation • Blood and Tears • Fried Death • Bizarre Zero • Save the Humans! • Bat Attack! / The Battle of Reading Gaol • Triskaidekaphobia • Smart Bombs • Pinball Wizard • Gangster's Paradise / Heads You Lose • A Date to Remember / Snow Fakes

Solo

The Hunters / Cliffhanger • 13 O'Clock • Green Fingers • The Snag Finders

Martha Jones

The Skrawn Inheritance • The Green, the Bad and the Ugly • Minus Seven Wonders • The Last Soldiers • Signs of Life • Shipwreck! • Cold War • Waste Not • A Klytode Christmas

Solo

The Monster Upstairs • Hot Metals • The Halls of Sacrifice • The Old Kings of Skarab • Reign of the Stone Monkey • Every Dog Has Its Day • The Poison Planet • Sea-Rah • The Great Mordillo

Donna Noble

Nightmare on the Boulevard • Windswept • The Continuity Cap • Wormhole • The Black Hole Gang • CitiZens Arrest • The Lavender Hill Blob • Shark Bait • Attack of the Mange Mites! • By Order of the Bonemenders • The Alice in Wonderland Circuit • Washed Away! • Titanoleum Tourists • The Man in the Moon • Time Flies • The Giant's Ring • Frosty the Snowdemon

Heather McCrimmon

The Chromosome Connection • The Aquarius Condition • Glam Culture • The Great Rain Robbery • The Parrian Proposal • Hitching Point • Store Wars • The Submariners • The Greed of the Gavulav • The Secret Army • The Silver Bullet • The Invisibles • Good Old Days • The Abomination Game • T.R.O.L • Cyclops • The Crystal Palace • The Spirit of Ashgar • Monster Idol • The Slakken Cat • Code Freeze • Hear no Evil • Terror in the TARDIS • The Ball and Chain Gang • The Memory Collective • The Blue Star Bomb

With Wolfgang Ryter	Flight of the Giurgeax • Starstruck • The Genius Trap • The Rising Tide • Sweet Dreams • Copycat • Shadow of the Vaipid • Snakes Alive! • The Sparkling Planet • The Curse of Vladula • Photo Finish • Brain Train • Foot Soldiers • Bad Wolfie

City of Light • The Guardian of Murcher • Night of the Burnt Toast • The Ghost Factory • Skydive! • Highway Robbery • Doomsilk • One Careful Owner • The Garden Rebellion • The Goats of Christmas • A Merry Little Christmas • We Will Rock You • The Highest Stake • Hook, Line and Sinker • The Unwelcome Visitors • Junk Food • Dead-line

Solo

Arctic Eclipse • Return of the Klytode • Creature Feature • Mudshock • Project UFO • Borrowed Time • Lucky Heather

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The Genius Trap (comic story)

Contents

Summary[]

Characters[]

Worldbuilding[]

Notes[]

Original print details[]

Continuity[]

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