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Doctor Who Classic Comics - Evening's Empire, ep 2, pp 2 (pp 15)

Artists: Richard Piers Rayner (All) , Annie Parkhouse (Letterer) , Andrew Cartmel (Writer)

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Title:	Doctor Who Classic Comics - Evening's Empire, ep 2, pp 2 (pp 15)
Artist:	Richard Piers Rayner (All)
Artist:	Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)
Artist:	Andrew Cartmel (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,075
Likes on CAF:	1 2
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Added to Site:	7/31/2020
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"Let's get started"

Written by the final TV season's script editor Andrew Cartmel, and illustrated by then up-and-coming artist (Hellblazer, with Jamie Delano) Richard Piers Rayner (both of whom were purposefully commissioned by then editor John Freeman), the story (and art) had all the detail, introspection and JCR meta-textualness that were characteristic of Doctor Who in the 1990s. From the Virgin New Adventures, onwards through the abortive 1996 Movie and beyond, this way of presenting the show without TV set the stage for Doctor Who's revival in 2005: when it was to be dominated by TV production professionals, the very same fans who had spent the last decade keeping the flame alight...

Evening's Empire has had a checkered history. This is page 2 of the never published second episode of 8 pages. Thanks to Rayner's painfully slow practice (all done with a Rotring pen from photo-reference!), AND his impending divorce, only episode 1 was to be published in Doctor Who Monthly (#180, 27th November 1991). Episode 2 was dispatched from Middlesbrough to London, but never arrived...the package was returned to sender with at least one page mangled beyond recognition, the other 7 'barely salvageable' according to Rayner. This is one of the salvaged pages.

These pages were subsequently resurrected in a stand-alone issue of Doctor Who Classic Comics (edited by Gary Russell) in October 1993, re-lettered (by Annie Parkhouse, no less!) and colourised by Paul Vyse.

The page shows signs of considerable reworking, with each panel being pasted over a completely different under-drawing; part of the pages reworking after having been wrecked in the mail. Both UNIT Colonel Muriel Frost's face and the pilot's skull have been reworked.

Delighted to have this signed by the 7th Doctor himself - Sylvester McCoy - at Gallifrey 1 LA February 2022.

Pen, ink, whiteout, on cartridge paper
Page 17" x 11"

Letters: Annie Parkhouse

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