The Master (Winning Designs)

A new incarnation of the Master planned the destruction of Earth from an American amusement park.

Physical appearance
The Master was a thin man with a bony face. He had the classic jet-black pointed beard and prominent bangs coming down on his forehead. He dressed in dark green from head to toe, with a high-collar cloak thrown over his dark green sweater. (NOTVALID: Winning Designs)

Biography
The Master allied himself with an alien species intent on destroying Earth. He then posed as an engineer in an amusment park in America. Though he was supposedly building a new "space ride", he had in truth designed the machinery so that it would act as a teleporter to bring a large workforce of the aliens to Earth. They would then build a machine capable of destroying the Earth, but also, unbeknownst to them, their own planet.

This plan was discovered and foiled by the Doctor and a fortune-teller who worked at the park, Maggie. Maggie subsequently became the Doctor's new companion. (NOTVALID: Winning Designs)

Behind the scenes
This Master was designed and written as if popular actor John Hurt (who had yet to be cast as the War Doctor by several decades) was to play the part, a casting suggested as the winning entry of the Doctor Who Casting Competition in DWM 108, a proposal submitted by Scott Sauber. His costume and story were designed by Wanda Sue Morain and Mike Acord as the winning entry of a follow-up contest, the Doctor Who Design Competition, with the text and professional-grade illustrations of Winning Designs being the ultimate result.

As Winning Designs does not constitute a story in its own right, it is not considered valid by this Wiki, and as such, neither is the existence of this Master. Beyond the fact that Hurt would go on to play the Doctor in official Doctor Who media, this Master also prefigured another Doctor, the alternative Ninth Doctor from Scream of the Shalka, whose costume was highly reminiscent of the "Hurt" Master.

Interestingly, this was not the only time that licensed Doctor Who printed media introduced a new incarnation of the Master intended to resemble a famous actor who was not ever realistically going to play the character in the flesh: the Virgin New Adventures featured Anthony Ainley's using Tzun technology to turn his Trakenite vessel into a Time Lord body capable of regenerating, and then had him indeed regenerate into an incarnation stated in behind-the-scenes material to be identical to Basil Rathbone.