Black Legacy (comic story)

Cyberleader Maxel leads a party to the dead world of Goth in search of a weapon that wiped out an entire civilization overnight. As they explore the war museum, they are watched by the Apocalypse Device, a synthetic creature carrying every conceivable disease and virus. The Cybermen are wiped out by telepathic nightmares and a lethal rust-like virus. Maxel realises the only reason for his survival is so he can take the Apocalypse Device off the planet. He activates the ship's self-destruct, destroying it and himself, leaving the Device trapped on the planet, until a Sontaran craft arrives...

Characters[]

References[]

The Sontarans mention the Daleks.
Theta Troop was a Cybermen squad.

Notes[]

This is one of five collaborations between writer Alan Moore and illustrator David Lloyd, who would later create the graphic novel V for Vendetta.
Like other Doctor Who Weekly time tales, this back up strip story was introduced and tailed by the Fourth Doctor as if recounting a story.
The story portrays the Cybermen as uncharacteristically human in their thinking and speech patterns.
The Black Colossus of Goth is depicted in the shape of the 1903 František Kupka painting The Black Idol (Resistance). Twelve years later, the same painting would inspire Dracula's castle in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Original print details[]

Publication with page count and closing captions

DWM 35 (2) To be Continued ...
DWM 36 (2) To be Continued ...
DWM 37 (2) To be Continued ...
DWM 38 (2) The End ?

Reprints[]

Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in DW84 14

Continuity[]

The Cybermen resembles those from The Invasion

DWM backup comic stories

Multiple Appearances

Daleks

The Return of the Daleks • Return of the Elders

Abslom Daak

Abslom Daak...Dalek Killer • Star Tigers

Cybermen

Deathworld • Black Legacy

Kroton

Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman • Ship of Fools • Unnatural Born Killers

Sontarans

The Final Quest • The Outsider • The Gods Walk Among Us • Conflict of Interests • Unnatural Born Killers

Time Lords

The Stolen TARDIS • Star Death • 4-D War • Black Sun Rising • Minatorius

With Doctor	K-9's Finest Hour • The Touchdown on Deneb-7

With Sarah	City of Devils

Silurians & Sea Devils

Twilight of the Silurians • Devil of the Deep • City of Devils

UNIT

Skywatch-7 • The Fires Down Below

Single Appearances

Cyberman stories

Television

The Tenth Planet • The Moonbase • The Tomb of the Cybermen • The Wheel in Space • The Invasion • Revenge of the Cybermen • Earthshock • The Five Doctors • Attack of the Cybermen • Silver Nemesis • Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel • Army of Ghosts / Doomsday • Cyberwoman • The Next Doctor • The Pandorica Opens • Closing Time • Nightmare in Silver • The Time of the Doctor • Dark Water / Death in Heaven • World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls • The Haunting of Villa Diodati • Ascension of the Cybermen / The Timeless Children

Webcast

TARDIS Cam No.1 - The Moonscape • Real Time • Tardisode 6 • Tardisode 13 • Monster File: Cybermen

Audio

Sword of Orion • Spare Parts • Real Time • The Harvest • The Reaping • The Gathering • Human Resources • The Girl Who Never Was • The Ultimate Adventure • Kingdom of Silver • Legend of the Cybermen • The Silver Turk • Silver Lining • The Crystal of Cantus • The Blue Tooth • Last of the Cybermen • The Isos Network • Return to Telos • The Tyrants of Logic • Code Silver • Master of Worlds • Hour of the Cybermen • Conversion • Return of the Cybermen • The Gates of Hell • Scourge of the Cybermen

Cyberman

Scorpius • Fear • Conversion • Telos • Outsiders • Terror • Machines • Extinction

Prose

Birth of a Renegade • Heliotrope Bouquet • Iceberg • Killing Ground • Illegal Alien • Scientific Adviser • Vrs • Going Off the Rails • Made of Steel • Plague of the Cybermen • Status Update • The Piper • The Mondas Touch • Dr. First • The Patchwork Pierrot • Consultation Exercise • Alit in Underland • Ghost in the Machine • A Girl Called Doubt

Comics

The Coming of the Cybermen • Flower Power • Cyber-Mole • The Cyber Empire • Eskimo Joe • Masquerade • The Time Museum • Test Flight • Junk-Yard Demon • Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman • Deathworld • Black Legacy • Revelation! • Genesis! • The World Shapers • Comic Relief Comic • The Good Soldier • Dreadnought • The Flood • The Power of the Cybermen / Drones of Doom / Enemy Mine / Time of the Cybermen • Assimilation² • Doctor Who and the Last Stand • The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who • Conversion • Untitled • Cyber Crisis • Supremacy of the Cybermen • The Bidding War • The Lost Dimension

The Cybermen	The Dead Heart • The Flesh Unbound • The Black Sky • The Hungry Sea • The Dark Flame • The Future Perfect • The Ugly Underneath • The Prodigal Returns

Supremacy of the Cybermen prologues	Prologue: The First Doctor • Prologue: The Second Doctor • Prologue: The Fourth Doctor • Prologue: The Fifth Doctor • Prologue: The Sixth Doctor • Prologue: The Seventh Doctor • Prologue: The Eighth Doctor • Prologue: The War Doctor

Video games

Destiny of the Doctors • Save Paris • Cyber Assault • Ghostwatch • Eye of the TARDIS • Return to Earth • The Mazes of Time • Blood of the Cybermen • Dalek Supremacy • The Eternity Clock • The Doctor and the Dalek

Complete list of appearances