The Mark of Mandragora (graphic novel)

The Mark of Mandragora was a graphic novel collection of Seventh Doctor comic strips, published by Virgin Books. The comics and short story covered an arc where the Doctor and Ace were stuck on Earth fighting aliens, later discovering it to be the work of the Mandragora Helix.

Publisher's summary
"I'm beaten, Ace."

At the end of the twentieth century, the Mandragora Helix returns to Earth to be re-born. And there's nothing the Doctor, Ace or UNIT can do to prevent it.

The Mark of Mandragora is the culminating story in this collection of comic strips first published in the Doctor Who Magazine and now available for the first time in full colour.

Among the writers and artists represented in this collection are luminaries of the Doctor Who world such as Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan and Paul Cornell; favourite characters making guest appearances include Sarah-Jane Smith and the Brigadier.

Comic stories

 * Train-Flight
 * Doctor Conkerer
 * Fellow Travellers
 * The Mark of Mandragora

Short prose stories

 * Teenage Kicks by Paul Cornell
 * Teenage Kicks is printed between Fellow Travellers and The Mark of Mandragora.

Characters

 * Seventh Doctor
 * Ace
 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Mandragora Helix/Stranks
 * Muriel Frost

Continuity

 * The Doctor meets Sarah Jane again, where she comments about his regeneration. (TV: The Five Doctors)
 * Ace spends time in the Cretaceous Period. (PROSE: Living in the Past)
 * The Doctor's previously encountered Vikings. (TV: The Time Meddler)
 * Ace sees the Doctor's house on Allen Road for the first time. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead)
 * She feels the Doctor manipulating her like "Fenric all over." (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
 * The Doctor claims Morgaine should never have appeared on Earth at any time, but was attracted there by Mandragora. (TV: Battlefield)
 * The Fourth Doctor previously encountered the Mandragora Helix in the 15th century, (TV: The Masque of Mandragora) and Magog in the Rome of an alternate timeline. (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Iron Legion)