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comic name= Operation Proteus |
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series= [[Doctor Who Magazine comic strips|Doctor Who]] -<BR> [[First Doctor Comic Strip Stories]]|
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|range            = DWM comic stories{{!}}DWM Comics
doctor= [[First Doctor]]|
|number in range  = 86
companions= [[Susan]]|
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enemy= [[Raldonn]]|
|series           = [[DWM comic stories]]
year= [[London]], [[1963]]|
|doctor           = First Doctor
writer= [[Gareth Roberts]]|
|companions       = [[Susan Foreman|Susan]]
artist= [[Martin Geraghty]]|
|enemy           = [[Raldonn]]
publication_title= [[Doctor Who Monthly]] 231-233|
|setting          = [[Shoreditch]] and [[King's Cross tube station]], [[October]] [[1963]]
publication_dates= 25 October - 20 December [[1995]]|
|writer          = Gareth Roberts
publisher= |
|editor          = [[Gary Gillatt]]
format= Comic - ? parts |
|artist           = [[Martin Geraghty]]
previous story= [[The Curse of the Scarab]]|
|colourist        =
next story= [[Target Practice]]|
|letterer        = [[Elitta Fell]]
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|publication      = [[DWM 231]] - [[DWM 233|233]]
|release date    = 28 September - 23 November 1995
|cover date      = 25 October - 20 December 1995
|publisher       = Marvel Comics UK
|format           = Comic
|prev            = The Curse of the Scarab (comic story)
|next             = Target Practice (comic story)
|epcount = 3|reprint = Ground Zero (graphic novel)
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'''''Operation Proteus''''' was a [[First Doctor]] comic story published in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', issues [[DWM 231|231]] - [[DWM 233|233]].


==Summary==
== Summary ==
[[Susan Foreman|Susan]] is hanging out in a bar during a poetry recital and sees a man mutating into an alien life form. When she tells [[First Doctor|her grandfather]], he decides they must investigate. They find a secret laboratory below the [[London Underground|tube tunnels]] in central [[London]]. An alien called [[Raldonn]] is carrying out mutagentic experiments to create a pilot of a genetic make-up similar to himself to assist in flying his ship.


Susan is listening to beat poetry at a milk bar when a man suddenly stumbles into the bar and explodes into a mass of protoplasm while babbling about King's Cross. She returns to the TARDIS to tell the Doctor, who goes to King's Cross station to investigate and locates a secret entrance to a government installation. There, he is captured by the alien being Raldonn who runs Operation Proteus for the British government. Some time ago his spaceship crashed on Earth, killing his co-pilot, without whom he cannot generate enough psychic power to depart from Earth. The British government "asked" for his help in their weapons research projects, and, concluding that he was on a planet of savages, Raldonn easily twisted the project to his own ends. He intends to mutate a human being into one of his own kind to provide himself with a new co-pilot, but his current serum is unstable and will convert only one out of a million humans. Therefore he had a group of college students brought to the installation on the pretense that they were testing medical vaccines; in fact, he injected them with the serum and released one to carry the toxin to the surface. Soon, everyone in the world will be infected, and at least one of the victims will be close enough to Raldonn's true species to provide him with the psychic energy he needs to escape from Earth. But as the virus spreads, Raldonn's previous failed experiments are driven mad by its effects, and attack and him. The Doctor uses Raldonn's equipment to develop a genetic stabiliser and releases it into King's Cross station. The stabiliser spreads through the Underground system and blankets the city, returning everything to normal. The Doctor and Susan then return to the TARDIS, but the Doctor is unaware that while waiting for him earlier, Susan was removed and then returned by someone -- or something...
== Plot ==
 
==Characters==
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==References==
== Characters ==
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* [[First Doctor]]
* [[Susan Foreman]]
* [[Raldonn]]
* [[Grove (Operation Proteus)|Grove]]
* [[Clive (Operation Proteus)|Clive]]
* [[Laura Daniels]]
* [[Dick Ashley]]
* [[George (Operation Proteus)|George]]


==Notes==
== Worldbuilding ==
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* Raldonn's craft is powered by [[psychic]] energy.
* Clive walks past a newstand that comments on the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]].


==Continuity==
== Notes ==
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* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Ground Zero (comic story)|Ground Zero]]'' sets this story in [[October]] [[1963]].


==External Links==
== Continuity ==
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* Susan is briefly taken by the [[Threshold]], as signified by her losing her hat. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ground Zero (comic story)|Ground Zero]]'')


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[[Category:1995 comic stories]]
[[Category:Stories set in Shoreditch]]
[[Category:Stories set in London]]
[[Category:Three part comics]]

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Operation Proteus was a First Doctor comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine, issues 231 - 233.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Susan is hanging out in a bar during a poetry recital and sees a man mutating into an alien life form. When she tells her grandfather, he decides they must investigate. They find a secret laboratory below the tube tunnels in central London. An alien called Raldonn is carrying out mutagentic experiments to create a pilot of a genetic make-up similar to himself to assist in flying his ship.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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