The Enemy from Nowhere (comic story)

was a Third Doctor comic story published in TV Action.
== Summary ==
The Doctor is invited to Dowmphilly tracking station to observe the launch of a new space platform. However, the platform is in fact a launch pad for a nuclear arsenal. When a mysterious object is detected approaching earth it is assumed to be a meteor and, despite the Doctor's warnings, the space platform use it as target practice for a nuclear missile. As the missile has no effect it soon becomes clear that the object is a spacecraft, In retaliation, the space platform is apparently destroyed. Fearful that the Earth has instigated a space war what it cannot hope to win, the Doctor travels in the TARDIS to the alien vessel to confront its unseen occupants.
== Characters ==
* Third Doctor
* Davie Jenkins
* Weatherall
* Sir Ian MacGregor
* General
* Sir Malcolm Ruttsby
* Carl
* Joe
* Fred
* Secretary
== Worldbuilding ==
* The general asks whether the alien menace is anti-matter, which the Doctor says is "quite another thing".
== Notes ==
* These Zerons are not those from the later story Zeron Invasion, nor are they the Xerons from The Space Museum.
=== Original print details ===
(Publication with page count and closing captions)
* TVA 71 (3 pages) A military mystery for the Doctor... / ...or a new enemy in time? See next week!
* TVA 72 (3 pages) Next week the Doctor's plan's upset... / ...and the world's future is in peril!
* TVA 73 (3 pages) Next week, a threat to Earth... / ...and the Doctor is powerless!
* TVA 74 (3 pages) What are the Doctor's fears? / ...see next week!
* TVA 75 (3 pages) Earth is threatened by an invisible attack... / ...follow the Doctor's mystery journey, next week!
* TVA 76 (3 pages) Next week Earth's envoys are in trouble... / ...and the Doctor faces an unexpected foe!
* TVA 77 (3 pages) Next week, Earth is inches from destruction... / ...and the Doctor takes a gamble with death! 
* TVA 78 (3 pages) The Doctor's time journey continues until... / ...he meets the UGRAKK—next week!
:Note: The closing caption for each instalment was split over the second and third pages of the strip.
== Continuity ==
to be added
== External links ==
Category:Third Doctor TVA comic stories
Category:1972 comic stories
Category:Stories set in Cornwall
Category:Stories set in the 20th century
Category:Third Doctor comic stories
Category:Eight part comics