Marvel comics references in Doctor Who

[Mr. Sin]

Apparentally RTD is a big Marvel comics fan, and introduced some Marvel concepts into WHO:


-Captain Jack's last name Harkness is from Agatha Harkness, a Fantastic Four/Avengers recurring character.

-The Valiant is modeled somewhat after Shield's Helicarrier.

-Bryan Hitch, main artist of THE ULTIMATES, did at least some design work for the new series. (Although he did do some WHO work prior to Ultimates).

Interestingly this goes both ways: There have been many Doctor Who references in Marvel, mainly in the works of Chris Claremont. (Such as W.H.O in the original Excalibur, a UNIT style organization).


Then of course there's Death's Head, who crossed over with Doctor Who a few times.

A Doctor Who/Doctor Strange crossover was also apparentally considered but never published.


Of course, Marvel was involved with publishing WHO comics for many years. The Doctor even has an entry on the Marvel Wiki:

http://marvel.wikia.com/The_Doctor_(Doctor_Who)

 

[captcalhoun]

actually, Hitch worked on Who whilst doing The Ultimates because it took him so goddamn long to DO The Ultimates...

 

[wamdue]

-The Valiant is modeled somewhat after Shield's Helicarrier.

so its nothing like Cloudbase/Skybase in Captain Scarlet then?

 

[captcalhoun]

it's a bit like both

 

[DimesDan]

-The Valiant is modeled somewhat after Shield's Helicarrier.

so its nothing like Cloudbase/Skybase in Captain Scarlet then?

Yeah I was just going to say, and with a picture aswell:

 

[wamdue]

Personally i am hoping for a Stingray type vessel in Doctor Who at some point.

which alien race lives in Earths oceans in the Whoverse again?

 

[captcalhoun]

Silurians and Sea Devils

 

[Chaos Descending]

But they're not aliens.

 

[wamdue]

Silurians and Sea Devils

I thought there was some living in Earths oceans, just wasnt sure.

I assume UNIT has some alien tech, which is used to power a small Stingray style craft, the Doctor can even make a joke of it "Cloudbase, Stingray, you guys watch way to many Gerry Anderson shows, whats next a moonbase, actually thinking about it no, no just no"

UNIT commander to Martha: Best we dont mention the Moonbase then.

theDoctor rambling on, having totally lost his train of thought: still I do like puppets, thank Gerry Anderson for the puppets"

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Then of course there's Death's Head, who crossed over with Doctor Who a few times.

Do say.

 

[Stevil2001]

Death's Head made a nice cameo in the final issue of Captain Britain and MI13; I was pleased.

 

[captcalhoun]

if you're serious, Ar-Pharazon, i'd have to ask you turn in your Death's Head fan-card. EVERY Death's Head fan knows it was the Seventh Doctor who shrank Death's Head down from Transformer size to ~7' tall and sent him on a randomised trip through time which dumped him on Earth in 8162.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Of course I remember the crossover. It has been a loooong time, though, since I saw it.

 

[wamdue]

if you're serious, Ar-Pharazon, i'd have to ask you turn in your Death's Head fan-card. EVERY Death's Head fan knows it was the Seventh Doctor who shrank Death's Head down from Transformer size to ~7' tall and sent him on a randomised trip through time which dumped him on Earth in 8162.

this sounds like its got alot of backstory to it.

Can anyone explain this?

 

[captcalhoun]

Death's Head first appeared in Transformers UK comic. he was a bounty hunter - scuse me, Freelance Peace-keeping agent, who operated in 2006. After seeing a wanted poster in a bar for Galvatron, the reformated version of Megatron from the cartoon Transformers the Movie, he went hunting for Galvatron. After an extremely complex chain of events, he wound up throwing himself and Galvatron's lieutenants Cyclonus and Scourge through a time-portal. The Decepticons wound up on Cybertron in the past. Of Death's Head there was no sign...

until he turned up in a Doctor Who comic some time later and was shrunk from his ~35' height by the Doctor to ~7' tall. The Doctor then sent him to Earth in the distant future of 8162AD.

Death's Head then turned up in #5 of the UK Marvel comic 'Dragon's Claws' set in (you guessed it) 8162AD. Dragon's Claws was a team of government enforcers who DH clashed with, having most of his body destroyed in the process. He was subsequently rebuilt and continued his career as a freelance pace-keeping agent in his own self-titled comic before winding up time-travelling back to the early 1990s Earth where he was left when the series was cancelled.

 

[wamdue]

I dont know how I feel about this, on the one hand I love Doctor Who, on the other I hate Transformers.

I am surprised the BBC allowed Marvel the freedom to have Doctor Who feature in other Marvel storylines, or in this case other Marvel storylines feature in Doctor Who.

 

[Andrew_Kearley]

until he turned up in a Doctor Who comic some time later and was shrunk from his ~35' height by the Doctor to ~7' tall. The Doctor then sent him to Earth in the distant future of 8162AD.

The Crossroads of Time, in DWM issue 135. This wasn't the only time that the seventh Doctor crossed paths with Deaths Head though. In Deaths Head issue 8, a story called "Time Bomb", Dogbolter hired Deaths Head to track down the Doctor. That story actually ends with the Doctor landing the Tardis on top of the Fantastic 4's headquarters, where he leaves Deaths Head - who meets the Fantastic 4 in his next adventure. And the Doctor also appears in the final issue (12) of The Incomplete Deaths Head, the framing device of which is a semi-sequel to the events of "Time Bomb".

 

[wamdue]

theDoctor & Fantastic Four, that I approve of.

 

[Andrew_Kearley]

Death's Head first appeared in Transformers UK comic. he was a bounty hunter - scuse me, Freelance Peace-keeping agent, who operated in 2006.

Oh and I forgot, the Doctor says in The Incomplete Deaths Head that it was him who sent Deaths Head into the robot universe in the first place, and that he's been occasionally manipulating his destiny since then.

 

[captcalhoun]

i never read Death's Head's own series or TIDH.