APOCRYPHA
The adventures we might have missed between television episodes…
Feature by STEVE LYONS
Issues 127-129 of Doctor Who Magazine; writer Grant Morrison; Nicola Bryant as Peri and Colin Baker as the Doctor in The Two Doctors (1985); the Doctor finds a dying Time Lord in the first episode of The World Shapers (1987); the Panini comics collection.
What Is It? A comic-strip adventure in Doctor Who Magazine, issues 127 to 129.
Who Wrote It? Budding comicbook superstar Grant Morrison.
When Was It? July to September 1987.
Where Does It Fit? The Sixth Doctor and Peri are travelling with shape-shifter Frobisher, some time after The Two Doctors (1985).
Why Does It Matter? It picks up numerous strands of continuity and twists them into something unique.
How Do I Find It? It’s part of the comics collection Doctor Who: The World Shapers, rst published by Panini in 2008 and still in print. It was colourised for IDW’s Grant Morrison’s Doctor Who #2 later that year, and appeared in three subsequent collections from the same publisher.