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Jungle of Doom (comic story)

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Jungle of Doom was a TV Comic story featuring the Second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

In a jungle on an unnamed world, the Quarks spot the Doctor's TARDIS's arrival and immediately bury it under rubble. The Second Doctor and Jamie run as a Quark hit-squad comes after them. They barely stay ahead of their pursuers.

They come to a site where workmen are clearing the jungle. After getting the workmen to run, the Doctor and Jamie decide to defend themselves with the bulldozers. While the Quarks blast the scoop from Jamie's vehicle, the squad is destroyed. The Doctor and Jamie try to get back to the TARDIS, passing close by the enemy's ship on the way, but then come under attack by the jungle's natives, unwilling human agents of the Quarks!

The Doctor uses the bulldozer to escape but the natives warn the Quarks. The Doctor puts some distance between the bulldozer and the Quarks and then makes some modifications to the machine, removing its silencer. When he starts the engine, the noise starts a stampede among the local wildlife which destroys the Quarks (and almost the Doctor too!). He then refits the silencer and uses the bulldozer to clear the rubble around the TARDIS.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

The jungle planet is near the Quark home planet.
The jungle planet is home to leopards, hippopotamuses, cheetahs, antelopes, rhinoceroses, elephants, zebras and buffalos.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

While Invasion of the Quarks showed the Quarks using a the spaceship design seen in the television serial The Dominators, this story introduced a new Quark craft which would appear in subsequent TV Comic Quark stories.
According to The Terrestrial Index, this story is also titled Hunted By the Quarks and The Hunted.

Original print details[[edit] | [edit source]]

(Publication with page count and closing captions)

TVC 885 (2 pages) Next week Dr. Who and Jamie make an action-packed stand against the Quarks
TVC 886 (2 pages) Mechanical monsters versus the power of the Quarks... Don't miss the outcome next week!
TVC 887 (2 pages) The Doctor and Jamie are sitting ducks! See the dramatic outcome next week!
TVC 888 (2 pages) Next week the charging beasts of the jungle clash with the Quarks! Don't miss next week's thrills!
TVC 889 (2 pages) A new all-action adventure starts next week!

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jamie alludes to his and the Doctor's past battles with the Quarks. (COMIC: Invasion of the Quarks, The Killer Wasps)

v • e

Second Doctor TVC comic stories

1966

Weekly strip

The Extortioner

1967

Weekly strip	The Extortioner • The Trodos Ambush • The Doctor Strikes Back • The Zombies • Master of Spiders • The Exterminator • The Monsters from the Past • The TARDIS Worshippers • Space War Two • Egyptian Escapade • The Coming of the Cybermen • The Faithful Rocket Pack • Flower Power • The Witches

Holiday Special	Barnabus • Jungle Adventure • TV Comic's Counter Game

Annual stories	Attack of the Daleks • Pursued by the Trods

All stories feature John and Gillian.

1968

Weekly strip	The Witches • Cyber-Mole • The Sabre-Toothed Gorillas • The Cyber Empire • The Dyrons • Dr. Who and the Space Pirates • Car of the Century • The Jokers • Invasion of the Quarks • The Killer Wasps • Ice Cap Terror • Jungle of Doom

Holiday Special	Return of the Witches • Masquerade • TV Comic's Counter Game

Annual stories	The Time Museum • The Electrodes • Test Flight

John and Gillian feature until Invasion of the Quarks, when they are replaced by Jamie.

1969

Weekly strip	Father Time • Martha the Mechanical Housemaid • The Duellists • Eskimo Joe • Peril at 60 Fathoms • Operation Wurlitzer • Action in Exile • The Mark of Terror • The Brotherhood • U.F.O. • The Night Walkers

Holiday Special	The Champion • The Entertainer • Basil Brush goes Rent Collecting

Annual stories	Death Race • Test Flight

Jamie disappears after Martha the Mechanical Housemaid, leaving the Doctor alone. The Doctor's exile begins in Action in Exile.

All weekly stories drawn by John Canning, continuing his creative run from the First Doctor in 1966 to the Third Doctor in 1971.

v • e Quark stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Quark story" is one in which one living, authentic Quark plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story.

Television	The Dominators

Audio	Power of the Dominators

Prose	Mutually Assured Domination • Time and Again • Consultation Exercise • The Arcade of Doom • The Expo of Terror • Beyond the Sunset

Comics	Invasion of the Quarks • The Killer Wasps • Jungle of Doom • Martha the Mechanical Housemaid • The Duellists • Death Race • The Fires Down Below • Quiet on the Set • The Lost Dimension

Video games	Destiny of the Doctors

Complete list of appearances