Planet of the Dead (comic story)

Planet of the Dead was a Seventh Doctor comic published in Doctor Who Magazine.

Summary
The Doctor is on the planet Adeki, trying to fish, when he comes upon an old city of the Adekians. It is populated with metamorphic aliens. On meeting him, they take the shapes of his former companions (most of whom are dead), but then take the form of his previous selves.

Plot
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Characters

 * Seventh Doctor
 * Gwanzulum

Worldbuilding

 * Frobisher told the Doctor about the Shaper Wars.
 * The Doctor considers visiting the Halls of Speculative Interest on Vesivius.
 * The Doctor mentions having lost his 500 Year Diary.
 * The Gwanzulum predate the Whifferdills and the Kymbra Chimera, and have metamorphic DNA.

Continuity

 * The Doctor is confronted by his failure to save his companions from death in the forms of Adric, (TV: Earthshock) Jamie McCrimmon, (COMIC: The World Shapers) Katarina, and Sara Kingdom. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan) Peri Brown is also present, (TV: Mindwarp) despite the Doctor knowing she survived to marry Yrcanos on Thoros-Beta. (TV: The Ultimate Foe)
 * Upon seeing Katarina, the Doctor remembers "a wooden horse" (TV: The Myth Makers) and "the Feast of Stephen". (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)