Death Flower!
Death Flower! ran in TV Comic #1204 - #1214 in early 1975. With #1204 being published the same day as Part Two of Robot was transmitted, it also served as the comic strip debut of Tom Baker’s Doctor. Five years earlier TV Comic had actually shown the transformation of Patrick Troughton’s into Jon Pertwee’s, this being something the television series had neglected to do.1 But in the absence of such a continuity gap to fill, 1975’s readers had to make do with a rather nice summary of events as the first panel of the first page of the story.
This, and like the rest of the strip, was illustrated by Gerry Haylock, who had been drawing Doctor Who (bar the odd holiday cover) for three years and as the strip moved through multiple titles published by Polystyle. Haylock would depart Doctor Who at the end of this story, in a curious echo of producer Barry Letts and script editor / writer Terrance Dicks overseeing Robot before following Jon Pertwee out of the door.