Peter Davison Doctor Who Comic Art for sale: The Moderator

I'm reluctantly selling, via eBay, an original page from Episode Three of the Peter Davison story 'The Moderator', published in Doctor Who Magazine Issue 87, cover dated April 1984, drawn by Steve Dillon.

The story, written by Steve Parkhouse, sees the Doctor and his new friend Gus arrive on Celeste. a world populated by intelligent soldiers. But all is not what it seems. The soldiers are under the control of the sinister Moderator who is using the gift of Celeste to create a link to Earth. Can The Doctor stop him inhabiting another planet?

The page offered shows the amphibious Josiah Dogbolter trying to cut a deal with the Doctor for his TARDIS, which gets short shrift.

The final frame of the page is a classic of the DWM comics, in my opinion.

The The Tides of Time graphic album. The story also inspired events in The Incomplete Death's Head series, which also involved The Doctor.

The art is in good condition with no speech bubbles missing, although they have coloured with age.

Hopefully this is a page that will appeal to both Davison and Dillon fans.

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• More about 'The Moderator' on the TARDIS Index File

More Who Comics Mythos Leaps to Audio Adventures

Stockbridge - an English village created for the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip - will feature in a new trilogy of audio adventures from Big Finish.

To date, Stockbridge has featured in the strips The Tides of Time, The Stockbridge Horror, and Stars Fell on Stockbridge in the 1980s, and, more recently, The Stockbridge Child.

"The three stories in our 'Stockbridge trilogy' are set in the past, present and future of the village," reveals Script Editor Alan Barnes in the latest issue of DWM of the new audio adventures. "They're all very different.

"October's Castle of Fear, set in the Middle Ages, is a galumphing historical adventure," he revealed, "with, hopefully, a very surprising twist.

"Jonny Morris's The Eternal Summer, released in November, is a weird Sapphire and Steel-y sort of affair featuring mad UFO spotter Max Edison, and Mark Morris's Village of the Damned, released in December, is a full blooded horror-ish sort of thing, with sinister ravens and zombie cricketers!"

All three adventures star Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor and companion Nyssa, played by Sarah Sutton.

"I loved the idea that the Fifth Doctor would make his home from home in a pretty English village, and that weird stuff would keep on happening there," says Barnes.

The idea of the Doctor having a home, or homes, beyond the TARDIS has been used several times in comics: the Third Doctor had his own cottage in the Countdown stories, while Andrew Cartmel gave the Seventh Doctor at least one spooky house in stories he penned for the comic in the 1990s, initially realized by artist Arthur Ranson.

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