Time Bomb!

Time Bomb! was the second story in the pages of Death's Head (1988) to cross over with Doctor Who Magazine. Unusually for stories involving the character of Death's Head, it was not written by Simon Furman, but rather another DWM veteran, Steve Parkhouse.

The story is notable for the fact that it knits together characters that were never before associated. In particular, it depicted a meeting between Josiah W. Dogbolter and his robot assistant Hob two characters from the Sixth Doctor's DWM run with Death's Head, who hadn't appeared in DWM until the Seventh Doctor's era. More significantly, it unmistakably showed the Doctor's TARDIS on top of the iconic Four Freedoms Plaza, home of the Fantastic Four, thereby making the Doctor a character in the mainstream Marvel universe.

The story was vague in its conclusion on whether Hob and Dogbolter had survived the confrontation, or if they had been been killed in the final frame. The comic series The Incomplete Death's Head would serve as a sequel to the story; showing Hob, splintered across all of time and space by the blast, searching across archives of Head's life for any sign of where Dogbolter might have ended up. Stories like COMIC: The Stockbridge Showdown would answer the mystery simply by ignoring it, and instead showing the two characters living up to the same status quo expected before the release of the story.

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