Abel's Story (comic story)

was a Sixth Doctor comic published in Doctor Who Magazine. It was the second consecutive script to be themed around the Skeletoids. It largely featured Abel Gantz, with the Sixth Doctor, Frobisher and Peri relegated to non-speaking roles. After being introduced here, Gantz would appear in The Warrior's Story and Frobisher's Story.
== Summary ==
The Skeletoids are coming! As the galaxy prepares itself, Abel Gantz's life is changed forever.
== Plot ==
The Doctor, Frobisher and Peri meet Abel Gantz, an alchemist who has developed the ability to transform his flesh into any element and shape imaginable following a laboratory accident indirectly caused by the TARDIS' escape from the Funhouse.
== Characters ==
* Abel Gantz
* GBC news anchor
* Daved Sachet
* Sixth Doctor
* Frobisher
* Peri Brown
* Kane
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Skeletoids attack Altair IV.
* Abel Gantz studied alchemy.
* Davros appears in a GBC news broadcast explaining that he has been invited to a Galactic Alliance summit but, unlike the Draconian High Commission and the Cyber-Emperor, has yet to reply.
== Notes ==
* This story was reprinted in DWCC 20 and Voyager.
* The title Abel's Story, when paired with Kane's Story, forms a reference to Cain and Abel, two siblings mentioned in the book of Genesis of the Bible.
== Continuity ==
* Abel Gantz's laboratory was destroyed by a rogue chunk of the Time Vortex created when the TARDIS breaks free of the Funhouse. (COMIC: )
== External links ==
Category:Sixth Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:1985 comic stories
Category:Comic stories set in Mutter's Spiral
Category:Stories set in the 82nd century
Category:Davros comic stories
Category:One part comics