City of the Damned (comic story)

Summary
The Doctor arrives in the city of Zombus on the planet Zom. A ruling council, the Brains Trust, who wear eyeless masks which look like brains, have identified emotions the cause of all crime and outlawed it. With the Moderator General and the Moderators, the people are controlled and forbidden emotional experiences. They use Harmonisers to remove emotions from the citizens. There is resistance from the Zom Emotional People’s Organisation, each of whom carry out and live by one emotion alone so as to preserve it until the arrival of the Great Emoter. The Doctor is seen as the Great Emoter and is helped to escape the city. But ZEPO’s Big Hate has a plan to destroy the Moderators using his savage Barabara (giant blood bugs). The Barabara are released into the city but start to eat everyone, not just the Moderators. The Barabara however are defenceless against adrenalin. The Doctor appeals to the Brains Trust who agree to reinstall emotions to save what they have but the Moderator General is opposed to the plan and kills the others. The Doctor overpowers the Moderator General and order the people into the Harmonisers where they regain their emotions. The Barabara quickly die and the city begins a new life with a full set of emotions that the Doctor leaves behind. The people feel so grateful to the Doctor that they try to dress like him and adopt his mannerisms.

Characters

 * Fourth Doctor
 * Moderator General
 * Brains Trust
 * Barabara

Original Print Details (Publication with page count and closing captions)

 * 1) DWM Issue 9 (5 pages)  Next Week: Mind-Wipe!
 * 2) DWM Issue 10 (4 pages)  Next Week: Gauntlet of Death!
 * 3) DWM Issue 11 (4 pages)  Next Week: The Big Hate!
 * 4) DWM Issue 12 (4 pages)  Next Issue:  Night of the Barabara!
 * 5) DWM Issue 13 (5 pages)  Next Week: Bitter Harvest!
 * 6) DWM Issue 14 (4 pages)  Next Week: Streets of Blood!
 * 7) DWM Issue 15 (4 pages)  Next Week: The Last Hours!
 * 8) DWM Issue 16 (4 pages)  Next Issue: Join the Doctor and K-9 in Time-Trap!

Reprints

 * 1) Doctor Who Marvel Premiere (Issues 59-60) Reprinted in colour.
 * 2) The Iron Legion the launch title of a new series of graphic novels (published in 2004), reprinting cleaned up comic strips  covering strips from Doctor Who Weekly issue 1 through to 38. Reprinted as original, in black and white, with closing captions.

Continuity

 * Jelly babies apparently they stop the ears popping during transmat travel.
 * This story is generally accepted as taking place between The Deadly Assassin and The Face of Evil, when the Doctor travelled without a companion.