Other Appearances
The comic strip The World Shapers, written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by John Ridgway and Tim Perkins, (Doctor Who Magazine #127-#129) shows the Voord of the planet Marinus using stolen time technology to "quick-evolve" themselves into the earliest Cybermen, which would make Marinus an earlier version of Mondas, before a change of name.
Incompatible with this explanation, the Virgin Missing Adventures novel State of Change by Christopher Bulis takes place on Terra Nova, a duplicate of Earth which may possibly later turn into Mondas.
The monthly series of comic strips written by Alan Barnes and drawn by Adrian Salmon, The Cybermen (DWM #215-#238) ignored this and took place on an unspoiled version of Mondas. It is not an origin story per se, but a sequence of events taking place in a larger history beginning with the story The Dead Heart, taking place some time after Mondas has begun its journey. It showed Cybermen similar to those shown in "The Tenth Planet" discovering and warring with Silurians and Sea Devils.
The last story of the cycle, The Ugly Underneath, depicts the original Cybermen having died out, by which time an Earth-like, technologically modern civilisation has arisen to replace them. The comic strip ended with the implication that revived Cybermen will, one day, still take over the planet. The Sea Devils and Silurians do not appear in this story.
In the Big Finish Productions audio play Spare Parts, the Fifth Doctor and his companion Nyssa arrived on Mondas prior to the rise of the Cybermen, while it was still drifting through space. There, they discovered the Mondasians living underground in a culture virtually identical to that of England in the 1950s, although with more advanced technology. The play relates the slow slide of the Mondasians towards cyber-conversion, conceived by the cybernetic gestalt intelligence controlling Mondas (an early version of the Cyber Planner seen in The Wheel in Space and The Invasion) as a solution to the planet's increasingly desperate situation.
Like for the other spin-off media, the canonicity of these and other non-televised accounts is uncertain.
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