Spider-God (comic story)

Summary
The Doctor arrives on an alien planet at the same time as a survey team from Earth. At first the planet seems idyllic, until the surveyors see the friendly humanoid natives sacrificing themselves to a giant spider which webs them up, apparently for future consumption. As the crew sets about destroying the spiders to make the planet safe, the Doctor finds a villager hatching from an egg and realizes the truth too late. The humans have already destroyed all the spiders by the time he reaches them, and he informs them that the villagers’ and spiders’ relationship was symbiotic; the humanoids caught food for the spiders, who in turn wove cocoons for the villagers, thus enabling them to transform into beautiful flying creatures like humanoid butterflies. They will do so no longer.

Characters

 * Fourth Doctor

Continuity
to be added