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The Doctor and Rose travel to another planet in search of the Brothers Hop Pyleen, more Platform One guests...
Summary
The Doctor and Rose arrive on Astro-Race Day where Skip is readying his Hyposlip 500 lightspeed podule for its first-ever race. As the space race starts, a huge ship appears and starts blasting the ships and using a tractor beam, takes them all on board. The Doctor, having always wanted to drive one of the pods, goes in pursuit, closely followed by Rose and Skip's mechanic Jumo in a pod awaiting repairs and prone to power surges. The Doctor's pod is damaged and taken on board where the Doctor overhears Skip's plan to sell the Hyposlip-500's technology for ten trillion to the Rakkonoids, a race of galactic techno-thieves. Skip had hoped his treachery would be unknown, but when Rose and Jumo crash into the ship, chaos ensues. Once the Doctor has piloted the ship back to the cliff-top launch site, Skip, along with the Rakkonoids, are led away by the authorities. Jumo tells the Doctor and Rose that his bosses, the Brothers Hop Pyleen, will be grateful and want to thank them but they have disappeared.
No closer to tracking the other Platform One survivors, the Doctor and Rose leave in the TARDIS still looking for answers.
Characters
- Tenth Doctor
- Rose Tyler
- Skip Pyleen – Astro-race pilot who sought to secretly profit from the sale of Hyperslip-500 techology to the Rakkonoids.
- Jumo Pyleen – support team to astro-race pilot Skip.
- Rakkonoids – Chunky green aliens with pointed dome heads, big yellow eyes and two antenna. A race of galactic techno-thieves. Tried to buy Hyperslip-500 technology from the treacherous astro-race pilot Skip Pyleen.
Original Print Details
Installment, publication title with page count and closing caption.
- 3/6 Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 3 (4 pages) TO BE CONTINUED!!!
- No reprints to date.
Notes
- Supporting the series of collectable Doctor Who trading cards, the magazine title, carried a regular 4 page, individually titled comic strip series of the Tenth Doctor's adventures.
- Style wise, the artwork and colours were bold and bright reflecting the tone of the magazine and, as with Doctor Who Adventures, it reflected the appeal to younger readers than that catered for by Doctor Who Magazine.
References
- The Battles in Time comic strip often sought to reinforce the Doctor character with that as seen on screen by utilising various 'props' used in the TV series. Namely; blue/brown suit, intelligent-looking glasses, sonic screwdriver and psychic paper. Apart from the brown suit and long coat none appeared in this strip.
Continuity
to be added
