The Mark of Mandragora (comic story)

The Mark of Mandragora was a Seventh Doctor comic strip published in Doctor Who Magazine. It served as a sequel to the television story The Masque of Mandragora, and featured the return of the Mandragora Helix.

Summary
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Plot
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Characters

 * Seventh Doctor
 * Ace
 * Captain Muriel Frost
 * Stranks
 * Sergeant Jasper Bean
 * Lynodd
 * Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Magog
 * Locksley

Worldbuilding

 * The Brigadier is at a Geneva summit.
 * UNIT are trying to negotiate greater powers with the UN.
 * By the late 1990s, London had become known as "swinging London" again, having not held the name for thirty years.
 * The Doctor says that he has been redecorating the TARDIS.
 * When the lightning falls and the Doctor takes out his umbrella, he sings the lyrics to Singin' in the Rain.

Continuity

 * Ace briefly encounters Magog, last of the Malvelius, still trapped in the Doctor's TARDIS and pleading for release. (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Iron Legion)
 * The Brigadier recognises the Seventh Doctor from the "last time [he] saw him" during the Carbury Incident. (TV: Battlefield)
 * The Doctor states that the Mandragora Helix aligns with Earth every five centuries. (TV: The Masque of Mandragora)
 * Frost states that UNIT have been operating under a greater degree of public transparency since aliens became a public fact after the Gantic invasion (COMIC: Invaders from Gantac!) and the Availlon fiasco. (TV: Battlefield)
 * Due to UNIT's new public and global position, Frost sows the seeds for the later organisation Foreign Hazard Duty, to operate in a secret position. (COMIC: Echoes of the Mogor!)