The Mark of Mandragora (comic story)

The Mark of Mandragora was a Seventh Doctor comic strip published in Doctor Who Magazine. It served as a sequel to the television story The Masque of Mandragora, and featured the return of the Mandragora Helix.
== Summary ==
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== Plot ==
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== Characters ==
* Seventh Doctor
* Ace
* Captain Muriel Frost
* Stranks
* Sergeant Jasper Bean
* Lynodd
* Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
* Magog
* Locksley
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Brigadier is at a Geneva summit.
* UNIT are trying to negotiate greater powers with the UN.
* By the late 1990s, London had become known as "swinging London" again, having not held the name for thirty years.
* The Doctor says that he has been redecorating the TARDIS.
* When the lightning falls and the Doctor takes out his umbrella, he sings the lyrics to Singin' in the Rain.
== Notes ==
* Throughout the story, a number of epigraphs are contrasted against the events within the panels. These are from: Francis Bacon, Essay on Death; William Shakespeare, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra; John Donne, Song; and Alfonso, King of Castile.
* Ace's earrings are the Starfleet insignia from Star Trek.
* Nicholas Courtney gave permission for the use of his likeness in this and the prelude story Darkness, Falling, on the condition that the Brigadier only appeared for a few frames.
* The story was presented colourised in the graphic novel The Mark of Mandragora.
== Continuity ==
* Ace briefly encounters Magog, last of the Malvelius, still trapped in the Doctor's TARDIS and pleading for release. (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Iron Legion)
* The Brigadier recognises the Seventh Doctor from the "last time [he] saw him" during the Carbury Incident. (TV: Battlefield)
* The Doctor states that the Mandragora Helix aligns with Earth every five centuries. (TV: The Masque of Mandragora)
* Frost states that UNIT have been operating under a greater degree of public transparency since aliens became a public fact after the Gantic invasion (COMIC: Invaders from Gantac!) and the Availlon fiasco. (TV: Battlefield)
* Due to UNIT's new public and global position, Frost sows the seeds for the later organisation Foreign Hazard Duty, to operate in a secret position. (COMIC: Echoes of the Mogor!)
== External links ==
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