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Captain Britian was an eleven-part comic and flagship story of The Daredevils, a 1983 Marvel UK publication that also reprinted Star Death, 4-D War, and Black Sun Rising.

While this Captain Britian series is currently considered invalid by this wiki, I believe there is overwhelming evidence for most of it being part of the DWU. Let's go over the four little rules:

They are stories.

They were licensed by relevant copyright holders, namely Marvel UK.

They were officially released in 1983.

Now, this is where we get to the debate; was Captain Britain meant to be a crossover between DWMs comics and the Marvel universe, and is thus a valid part of the DWU? I think the evidence for inclusion is significant:

"The Special executive grew out of a series of years ago for inclusion in DOCTOR WHO MONTHLY as back-up strips.
 * From Assimilation² to The Worlds of Big Finish, this wiki is no stranger to covering crossovers. This wiki originally covered only two of the ten stories from Death's Head (1988) as valid as they directly include characters that originated in the DWU crossing over with Death's Head. (The other eight stories have since been ruled valid but only The Incomplete Death's Head versions.) So there is a precedent for how we cover Doctor Who/Marvel crossovers.
 * Captain Britain is already valid on this wiki thanks to his crossover cameos in COMIC: Party Animals, a story published in 1991. Some may have hesitated to include Captain Britain on this wiki, but it is a non-issue.
 * Issue #1 features an appearance of Merlin the Wise from COMIC: The Neutron Knights and The Tides of Time as one of many faces of Merlyn. His DWM Merlin incarnation says "[Captain Britain] wouldn't have known me...", a nod to his appearances being in DWM comics.
 * Issues #5-11 feature appearances of Special Executive from 4-D War and Black Sun Rising.
 * Alan Moore's 4-D War, Black Sun Rising are reprinted in issue #5-7 to give explicit context for the reader about the DWU origins of these characters. They have been slightly altered, as Merlyn gives the framing narration in place of the Fourth Doctor, but the word balloons are left unchanged.
 * Alan Moore wrote these Captain Britain stories, showing his authorial intent. Alan More explicitly explains his intent for this to be a continuation of his Special Executive stories in "About: The Special Executive!" of issue #5:

I won't bother running through all the peculiar ins and outs of [4-D WAR]. Bernie will be reprinting it in these pages next month so you can catch them for yourselves.

BLACK SUN RISING... was just about the last story I did for DOCTOR WHO, so the Special Executive were seemingly cut down in their prime before I could explain who they were, how many there were of them, how their odd time-based powers functioned or any of the rest of the material I had planned. Imagine my glee when I was given the go ahead to use them as supporting characters in a couple of issues of The Daredevils, some two or three years later. So basically, here they are again folks: Wardog, Cobweb and Zeitgeist, along with previously unseen operatives like Fascination and Legion and a whole bunch of intriguing silhouettes that feature briefly in the opening frames of this episode and should give some idea as to how many of these oddballs there actually are. Whether the Executive fare any better in this incarnation, aided by the excellent visual interpretations of good old Alan Davis, is largely up to you."

- Alan Moore, abridged quote

Unlike, say, the Sleeze Brothers miniseries, this is explicitly meant to be part of the DWU.

Here's a handy table to organize all the pertinent info about this series:

This should be ample evidence that Captain Britain (but only The Daredevils #1, #5-11) is a Doctor Who crossover and is intended to be part of the DWU and as such, should be covered by this wiki.