The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack

The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack was a Doctor Who Magazine comic strip. It was the last to feature the Doctor travelling alone until Hotel Historia in 2008. This story saw the Doctor Who universe address the myth of Spring-heeled Jack, making him an alien figure.

The tale originally involved penny dreadfuls, a type of fiction commonly seen as the precursor to comics. After watching a DVD commentary of the show Angel, Scott Gray took note of a commentator who suggested removing the thing you like the most from a story to make it work. After discarding the penny dreadfuls, Gray found the story worked better. He also set it in the 1840s as gaslights were being introduced in London at that time and offered a back story.

Some character changes were also made. A character named Molly became Penny Chapman and the ending was rewritten so that Jack did not die. In an overview of this comic published in The Flood graphic novel, Gray noted Penny had all the appropriate companion attributes: pretty, brave, had been in the TARDIS, but decided that Destrii was a better fit.

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