THE MASTER ANNUAL 1975
Published by World Distributors Ltd - 1974 - Original price 95p
A year or so before the release of
their 'Dalek' annuals, World Distributors Ltd looked to other parts
of the 'Doctor Who' to exploit. Some bright spark came up with 'The
Master Annual'. This test copy features all the usual picture strips,
zany art and bewildering features one would expect. The stories
include such luridly titled efforts as 'Terror on Alpha One', 'The
Golden Death', 'Invasion of the Puff Creatures' and 'Killer from the
Asteroid Belt'. The features have a bent towards villainy rather than
space (like the previous annuals based on the parent series). There's
an A-Z of Villainy which includes topics such as 'blackmail',
'Lizzie Borden', 'arsenic' and 'the Conservative Party' together with
a game which gives the players a chance to kill the Doctor by
trapping him in a pit of “Perluvian acid snakes”.
As is usual,
the is no credit for writers or artists and the copyright is simply
credited to the BBC. Documentation from the original publishers
suggests a print run of 5,000 was supplied to them from a printing
house in Spain though there is no record of either their storage or
destruction in the UK.