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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This was [[Liz Shaw]]'s first appearance in any comic strip. | * This was [[Liz Shaw]]'s first appearance in any comic strip. | ||
* The "Third Doctor Comics" section of [https://classicdoctorwhocomics.wordpress.com/third-doctor-comics/ | * The "Third Doctor Comics" section of [https://classicdoctorwhocomics.wordpress.com/third-doctor-comics/ classicdoctorwhocomics ] titles this story ''The Mysterious Meteorite''. | ||
=== Original print details === | === Original print details === | ||
Revision as of 18:00, 14 January 2024
- You may be looking for The Metal-Eaters, a completely different Third Doctor TVC story.
The Metal Eaters was a TV Comic story featuring the Third Doctor and Liz Shaw in her comic debut. It was historic as it featured the first comic strip appearance of a televised female companion contemporaneous — if only barely — with her appearance on television. It also featured the first comic appearance of the Doctor's car, Bessie, although the car wasn't actually named in the strip.
Summary
After a meteorite crashes and is taken to a museum, unusual corrosion occurs nearby. The Third Doctor and Liz Shaw investigate and discover an extraterrestrial culprit.
Plot
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Characters
Worldbuilding
- The Doctor drives Bessie.
- Siderite is a mineral composed of iron.
- BM Chemicals has storage tanks at Whitford.
- An aeroplane at West Barnton Airfield was due to take children to Holland for a school holiday.
Notes
- This was Liz Shaw's first appearance in any comic strip.
- The "Third Doctor Comics" section of classicdoctorwhocomics titles this story The Mysterious Meteorite.
Original print details
- (Publication with page count and closing captions)
- TVC 960 (2 pages) Are these iron particles alive ? Follow Dr. Who next week.
- TVC 961 (2 pages) What has happened to the sergeant ? See next week.
- TVC 961 (2 pages) [No closing caption]
- TVC 962 (2 pages) But Dr. Who is unaware of one group of filings... For they left the meteorite before it was moved to the museum...
- TVC 963 (2 pages) A next exciting serial begins next week.
Continuity
- UNIT once again investigates a fallen meteorite. (TV: Spearhead from Space [+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)"])
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