Black Legacy (comic story)

Black Legacy was a backup comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine.
== Summary ==
Cyberleader Maxel leads a party to the dead world of Goth in search of a weapon that wiped out an entire civilisation overnight. As they explore the war museum, they are watched by the Apocalypse Device, a synthetic creature carrying every conceivable disease and virus. The Cybermen are wiped out by telepathic nightmares and a lethal rust-like virus. Maxel realises the only reason for his survival is so he can take the Apocalypse Device off the planet. He activates the ship's self-destruct, destroying it and himself, leaving the Device trapped on the planet, until a Sontaran craft arrives...
== Characters ==
* Maxel
* Loktar
* Varan
* Vaux
* Quaarl
* Fourth Doctor
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Sontarans mention the Daleks.
* Theta Troop was a Cybermen squad.
== Notes ==
* This is one of five collaborations between writer Alan Moore and illustrator David Lloyd, who would later create the graphic novel .
* Like other Doctor Who Weekly time tales, this back up strip story was introduced and tailed by the Fourth Doctor as if recounting a story.
* The story portrays the Cybermen as uncharacteristically human in their thinking and speech patterns.
* The Black Colossus of Goth is depicted in the shape of the 1903 painting The Black Idol (Resistance). Twelve years later, the same painting would inspire Dracula's castle in .
=== Original print details ===
:Publication with page count and closing captions
# DWM 35 (2) To be Continued ...
# DWM 36 (2) To be Continued ...
# DWM 37 (2) To be Continued ...
# DWM 38 (2) The End ?
== Continuity ==
* The Cybermen resemble those from The Invasion.
Category:DWM backup comic stories
Category:1980 comic stories
Category:Sontaran comic stories
Category:Cyberman comic stories
Category:Fourth Doctor comic stories
Category:Four part comics