purplecat: The fourth Doctor. (Who:Four)

Brightly coloured picture of a red landscape.  A circular flat area surrounded by hills and mountains and green T. Rexes.  There are flying things in the sky which, from context, I take to be pteranodons.  Two men in fur loincloths and spears are visible from the back.  There is an inset of the Fourth Doctor's head and a second with text - reproduced below.


The Back Page of Doctor Who Weekly Issue One. The text reads:

"I'd only landed on Magnon 5 to stretch my legs, but a malfunction of the Tardis caused it to disappear, leaning me stranded!

The natives thought I was a devil-being and tried to hunt me down with their tame tyrannosaurs!

I didn't know that their pet pteranodons were watching my every move from the air as well, and I was soon trapped in a sort of natural arena.

As the dinosaurs drew nearer, the tribe's chief appeared and had just ordered my death when the Tardis rematerialised right next to me on the sacrificial stone!

Just as well I'd left the door open!

... from the Doctor's Journal, entry 3512/A-7"
purplecat: The fourth Doctor. (Who:Four)
In the early days of Doctor Who Magazine, when it was Doctor Who Weekly, The Star Beast featured Beep, the Meep, rescued by two school children one of whom, Sharon Davies, is generally considered to be the Doctor's first black companion in any media


A tearful Meep relates his story to the Fourth Doctor.  In panel one the Meep, a round white furry creature with large ears about half the height of a person is seen from the back talking to the Fourth Doctor who asks `Perhaps you can explain why the other aliens are after you? You haven't done something... naughty?' to which the meep replies `Oh, No Doctor!'.  In the next panel (The Meep tells his story...) we have a close up of the Meep's face with large tearful eyes: `One day, One black day, the Wrarth warrior war-ships landed on my little planet... we offered them the Paw of Friendship but they offered us only... DEATH!'.  In the third panel the Meep is wiping its nose on the Doctor's scarf `The warriors destroyed Everything!  They did terrible things to my people... things I don't like to talk about tin from of the children. >Snuffle<'. The two children, a blonde white boy and a black girl in green blazers stand at the front of the panel the boy says `Cor! Torture and that...?'

But all is not as its seems

A panel close of of the Meep's eyes which are now yellow with red glints (But the Meep's Thoughts are far from grateful...).  A thought bubble for the Meep reveals 'You Stupid Earth Creatures! It was easy for a superior intelligence to fool you!'

Meanwhile though the Meep must endure the semblance of being cute and harmless

Sharon is kneeling to stroke the Meep in a panel in which everything is coloured green.  The Meep thinks `But it is still distasteful to have this Earth-child stroking the fur of the `Most-High'.  He whose commands have made a thousand planets tremble!'

Before too long however

Suddenly, the Meep pulls a gun from a Hidden Pouch!  A close of of the meep firing a gun with sharp teeth and eyes that now look quite aggressive.  It is saying `Meep! Meep!'

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