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Doorway to Hell (comic story)

️Thu Jan 12 2017

Doorway to Hell was a comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine in 2017, ending the ongoing arc the Doctor living with the Collins family in the early 1970s while his TARDIS repaired itself following a system overload.

It was notable for including Roger Delgado's incarnation of the Master, and featured the beginnings of his regeneration at the end of the story. This "plugging" of a hole in the Master's timeline notably conflicted with the version of the Delgado Master's demise featured in the earlier novel, Legacy of the Daleks.

Doorway to Hell also made another addition to fundamental Doctor Who lore in confirming, from the mouth of the Master himself, that TARDISes' ability to repair themselves with a new appearance following great trauma was, in fact, a form of regeneration in its own right.

Plot[]

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Characters[]

Worldbuilding[]

The Master uses the alias of "Professor Dominar".

Notes[]

Doorway to Hell is set after the Doctor and the Master's "affair with the Daleks and Draconians", referring to TV: Frontier in Space, the last appearance of Roger Delgado as the Master prior to his death.
The appearance of the Master's regeneration energy resembles the effect used on television since The Parting of the Ways in 2005.

Original print details[]

(Publication with page count and closing captions)

DWM 508 (12 pages) Next: Falling to Hell
DWM 509 (12 pages) Next: Master Plan
DWM 510 (12 pages) Next: Death in Hell
DWM 511 (12 pages) The End

Continuity[]

The Doctor tells Gabriel that he is a bad loser. (COMIC: The Board Games)
Hayle has become the police's go-to-guy for unusual cases since he helped the Doctor see off the Kolothosan in Epping Forest. (COMIC: Bloodsport)
The Master mentions how Lloyd's body was changed by an alien bacteria as Devina had to watch him nearly die, (COMIC: The Pestilent Heart) and when Max was abducted by Skadi and Broteas as Jess was hunted down. (COMIC: Bloodsport)
Through his TARDIS' scanner, the Master watched the Doctor's TARDIS explode over Brixton, (COMIC: The Pestilent Heart) just as he escaped from the affair with the Daleks and Draconians. (TV: Frontier in Space)
The Doctor tells the Master that he is from far in his future, and that he is four-billion-years-old. Ohila had previously mentioned the Doctor had spent four-and-a-half billion years inside his confession dial. (TV: Hell Bent)

v • e DWM Twelfth Doctor comic stories

Clara	The Eye of Torment • The Instruments of War • Space Invaders! • Blood and Ice • Spirits of the Jungle • The Highgate Horror • The Dragon Lord • Theatre of the Mind • Witch Hunt

Solo	The Stockbridge Showdown

Collins family	The Pestilent Heart • Moving In • Bloodsport • Be Forgot • Doorway to Hell

Bill	The Soul Garden • The Parliament of Fear • Matildus • The Phantom Piper • The Clockwise War

v • e "UNIT era" Master stories

Television	Terror of the Autons • The Mind of Evil • The Claws of Axos • Colony in Space • The Dæmons • The Sea Devils • The Time Monster • Frontier in Space

Audio	The Same Face • Master Thief • Terror of the Master • Rivers of Light • The Threshold

Prose	The Legacy of Gallifrey • Doctor Who Fights Masterplan "Q" • Smash Hit • The One Second Hour • Doorway into Nowhere • Listen - The Stars • Out of the Green Mist • The Duke of Dominoes • Night Flight to Nowhere • Reconnaissance • The Dragon of Hyacinth Lodge • Who Killed Kennedy • The Eight Doctors • The Face of the Enemy • Freedom • Legacy of the Daleks • Last of the Gaderene • Verdigris • The Switching • Hidden Talent • The Touch of the Nurazh • Deadly Reunion • UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce • The Seismologist's Story • The Nameless City • The Spear of Destiny • Harvest of Time • The Christmas Inversion • The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy • Winning • Anything You Can Do • Anger Management • Josephine and the Argonauts

Comics	The Glen of Sleeping • The Time Thief • Fogbound • The Man in the Ion Mask • Character Assassin • The Heralds of Destruction • Doorway to Hell • The Master Plan

Video games	Legacy ("Sonic Adventure")

Considered not part of the DWU	Doctor Who Pinball: Time Streams • Doctor Who and the Fangs of Time • Doctor Who? (150) • Nix View (165 • 199) • 50 Years • The Daft Dimension (560)

* Substantial appearances only; see a full list of appearances here

v • e

Regeneration stories

For the purposes of this list, a "regeneration story" is one in which a regeneration is actually and initially depicted. For this reason The War Games is not included below, as it doesn't actually include a clear scene of regeneration, and the preponderance of stories in other media confirms that the Second Doctor did not regenerate at the end of it.
Additionally, immediate post-regeneration stories, like the 2005 Children in Need Special Born Again — and ones like Castrovalva, where the regeneration sequence was replayed — are not included.

The Doctor

TV series	The Tenth Planet • Planet of the Spiders • Logopolis • The Caves of Androzani • Time and the Rani • Doctor Who • The Parting of the Ways • The Stolen Earth • The End of Time • The Night of the Doctor • The Day of the Doctor • The Time of the Doctor • World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls / Twice Upon a Time • The Power of the Doctor • The Giggle • The War Games in Colour

Comic Relief	The Curse of Fatal Death • Lenny Henry Regenerates into David Tennant

Comics	The Night Walkers

Prose	Interference: The Hour of the Geek • Spiral Scratch • The Cabinet of Light • Doctor Who and the Time War

Audio	Seven Keys to Doomsday • Full Fathom Five • The Brink of Death • The People Made of Smoke

Home video	Devious • Regeneration

Webcast	Another Doctor

Game	Random Regenerations • The Regeneration Game

The Master

Television	The Keeper of Traken • Utopia • The Doctor Falls

Prose	First Frontier

Comics	Doorway to Hell

Audio	Day of the Master • The Lumiat

Alternate universe	Sympathy for the Devil

Romana

Television	Destiny of the Daleks

Prose	The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe

Audio	Renaissance • Enemy Lines

Other
Time Lords

Television	Planet of the Spiders • Hell Bent

Prose	Timewyrm: Exodus • Goth Opera • Lungbarrow • Tears of the Oracle • The Shadows of Avalon • The Suns of Caresh • The Book of the War • Newtons Sleep • Engines of War • What Keeps Their Lines Alive • Flickering Flame • The Cactus and the Corpse

Audio	Unregenerate! • Panacea • Spring • The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel • Intervention Earth • Enemy Lines • The Black Hole • The Doomsday Chronometer • Songs of Love • The Side of the Angels • Mel-evolent • Partisans • Deeptime Frontier • Day of the Master

Comics	Ophiuchus

Non-Time Lord Gallifreyans

Prose

Cold Fusion • Interference: The Hour of the Geek • The Taking of Planet 5

Shobogans

Television

The Timeless Children

Proto-
Time Lords

Television	Day of the Moon • Let's Kill Hitler

Audio	The Lady in the Lake • My Dinner with Andrew

Others

Television	The Hand of Fear • Underworld • Mawdryn Undead • Dalek • Tony Blair Regenerates • Regeneration • The Eclipse of the Korven • The Witch's Familiar • The Timeless Children

Prose	Happy Endings • The Scarlet Empress • Divided Loyalties • Tears of the Oracle

Comics	Omega

Audio	Day of the Master • Regeneration Impossible • Omega