The Plant Master (comic story)

is the ex post facto title of the Third Doctor comic story in the 1972 Countdown Annual. Like many pre-Marvel comic strips, it had no title on first publication. The name gained traction after being used by Jean-Marc Lofficier in The Terrestrial Index and confirmed by John Ainsworth in his then-comprehensive listing of Third Doctor strips in DWCC #4.
== Summary ==
The Doctor and a young boy, Dave Lester, journey to the mysterious Carradine estate. There they find deranged genius Professor Rayner has created a huge Master Plant which can harness and control all other plants. The Professor's plans for world domination are thwarted when the Master Plant kills him. Besieged inside the Professor's laboratory by an approaching army of plants, the Doctor has only minutes to concoct a way of defeating the apparently unstoppable Master Plant.
== Characters ==
* Third Doctor
* Dave Lester
* Carradine
* Professor Rayner
* The Master Plant
== Worldbuilding ==
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== Notes ==
* Though this story's publication predates The Three Doctors, the Third Doctor is not depicted as being exiled on Earth, having complete use of the TARDIS and even shown executing some "short hop" precision flights. The Doctor's exile being more of a suggestion than an established fact is, however, in line with how it was depicted in Countdown/TV Action.
== Continuity ==
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Category:Third Doctor TVA comic stories
Category:Third Doctor TVC comic stories
Category:1972 comic stories
Category:Stories set in England
Category:Third Doctor comic stories
Category:One part comics