Ivan Asimoff

Dr. Ivan Asimoff was a science fiction writer from the planet Sigma.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Though apparently a professional writer, Dr. Asimoff, a timid soul, lived with his aunt. He was the creator of Commander Courage, often enacting his character's scenes in his head as he wrote his books, sometimes enacting them a little more vigorously than his aunt would have liked. (COMIC: The Fabulous Idiot ^[+]Loading...["The Fabulous Idiot (comic story)"])

He first encountered the Fourth Doctor while visiting the Festival of Five Planets. The pair were invited by Machine Head of the Freefall Warriors to accompany him on a test flight, during which they were briefly shot down by raiders from the renegade sixth planet. (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Free-Fall Warriors ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Free-Fall Warriors (comic story)"])

Later, having fallen in love with the beauty of the imprisoned Zyglot Polly, Asimoff was on his way to a "Save the Zyglot" conference when he once more ran into the the Sixth Doctor. He assisted the Doctor and Frobisher in their pursuit of Astrolabus. The Doctor in turn donated a large sum of money stolen from Josiah W. Dogbolter to the Zyglot trust. (COMIC: Polly the Glot ^[+]Loading...["Polly the Glot (comic story)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

The character was created by writer Steve Parkhouse and artist Dave Gibbons. His name was a play on that of the famous science fiction and nonfiction science author Isaac Asimov. He appeared in a solo story, The Fabulous Idiot, in the 1982 Doctor Who Summer Special.