The Faithful Rocket Pack (comic story)

The Faithful Rocket Pack
Doctor:	Second Doctor
Companion(s):	John and Gillian
Main enemy:	Enemy power
Main setting:	Arizona, USA, 1988
Release details
Printed in:	TV Comic 828-831
Release date:	28 October - 18 November 1967
Format:	Comic - 4 parts (8 pages)
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The Faithful Rocket Pack is a TV Comic story featuring the Second Doctor, John and Gillian.

Summary

The TARDIS brings the Second Doctor, John and Gillian to Arizona in 1988 where they watch an American plane crash. Soldiers arrive from a base and the Doctor tells them he watched it crash and will help discover why this has happened three times. The Doctor flies the fourth plane before it enters a death dive, but he uses his faithful rocket pack to escape, since the ejector seat doesn't work. He alter searches the desert for anything magnetic, and is captured by an enemy power using underground caves to destroy American test flights. He contacts John by walkie-talkie and asks him to send a plane filled with explosives. Tricked, the enemy causes the plane to crash and destroys the caves, with the Doctor escaping.

Characters

• The Second Doctor
• John and Gillian
• American soldiers
• Enemy soldiers

References

• An "enemy power" is crashing the latest planes being test by America.
• The Doctor holds a universe driving licence, which lets him fly anything anywhere. It's valid until the 23rd century.

Notes

• Like the previous story, the narration refers to the Second Doctor as Dr. Who while he is called the Doctor in the story, save for when an American general calls him "Dr. Who," which is printed on his license.

Continuity

• The Doctor uses the expression "By the planets!" (COMIC: The Coming of the Cybermen)