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 civilisation 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 Edit

References Edit

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

Notes Edit

This is one of five collaborations between writer Alan Moore and illustrator David Lloyd, who would later create the graphic novel V for Vendetta.
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.

Original print details Edit

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 Edit

Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in DW84 14

Continuity Edit

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 • A Good Man Goes to War • Closing Time • Nightmare in Silver • The Time of the Doctor • Dark Water / Death in Heaven • Face the Raven • Hell Bent • World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls

Video games

Destiny of the Doctors • The Doctor and the Dalek • Return to Earth • The Mazes of Time • Blood of the Cybermen • The Eternity Clock • Eye of the TARDIS

Prose

Birth of a Renegade • Heliotrope Bouquet • Iceberg • Killing Ground • Illegal Alien • Status Update • The Piper • The Mondas Touch • The Patchwork Pierrot • Made of Steel • Going Off the Rails • Plague of the Cybermen

Comics

The Coming of the Cybermen • Flower Power • Cyber-Mole • The Cyber Empire • Eskimo Joe • Masquerade • The Time Museum • Test Flight • The Champion • Junk-Yard Demon • Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman • Deathworld • Ship of Fools • Black Legacy • Revelation! • Genesis! • The World Shapers • Unnatural Born Killers • The Company of Thieves • The Glorious Dead • The Flood • Dreadnought • The Power of the Cybermen • Drones of Doom • Enemy Mine • Time of the Cybermen • In-Flight Entertainment • Conversion • Untitled • Assimilation² • Cyber Crisis • Supremacy of the Cybermen • 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 Third 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

Audio

Sword of Orion • Spare Parts • Real Time • The Harvest • The Reaping • The Gathering • Human Resources • The Girl Who Never Was • 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 • The Fate of Krelos/Return to Telos • The Tyrants of Logic • Code Silver/Master of Worlds

Cyberman

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

Webcast

Real Time • Shada • Tardisode 6 • Tardisode 13

Sontaran stories

Television

Broadcast	The Time Warrior • The Sontaran Experiment • The Invasion of Time • The Two Doctors • The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky • The Last Sontaran • Enemy of the Bane • The Pandorica Opens • The Time of the Doctor • Face the Raven

Direct-to-video	Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans • Mindgame • Mindgame Trilogy

Video games

Destiny of the Doctors • The Gunpowder Plot • The Doctor and the Dalek

Prose

Shakedown • Lords of the Storm • The Infinity Doctors • The Sontaran Games • The Taking of Chelsea 426 • Blind Terror • A Soldier's Education • Dr. Thirteenth

Audio

Silent Warrior • Old Soldiers • Conduct Unbecoming • The Eleven Day Empire • The Shadow Play • Heroes of Sontar • The Five Companions • The First Sontarans • Starlight Robbery • The King of Sontar • Master of the Daleks • Terror of the Sontarans • The Sontaran Ordeal • The Eternity Cage • The Sontarans • The Eternal Battle • The Sontaran Project • Portrait of a Lady • A Photograph to Remember • Peepshow

Comics

The Final Quest • The Outsider • Dragon's Claw • Black Sun Rising • The Gods Walk Among Us • Pureblood • Conflict of Interests • Black Legacy • Unnatural Born Killers • The Betrothal of Sontar • Fugitive • The Instruments of War • Monster Hunt • Return of the Krulius • The Judas Goatee • Supremacy of the Cybermen • World Without End • Beneath the Waves

Complete list of appearances

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