The Extortioner (comic story)

	Second Doctor
	John and Gillian
	The Extortioner
	An unnamed planet
	Roger Noel Cook
	John Canning
	TV Comic 784-787
	24 December 1966 - 14 January 1967
	Comic - 4 parts (8 pages)
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The Extortioner was a TV Comic story featuring the Second Doctor, John and Gillian.

Summary

The TARDIS lands on an unnamed planet. The Doctor leaves John and Gillian in the ship and explores a nearby volcano. He discovers it is the base of the Extortioner, who plans to blackmail the inhabited universe with his fleet of rockets unless they pay his ransom demands. The Doctor is captured and imprisoned, but escapes with his pocket laser. He throws the missiles' warheads into the volcano's core, causing an eruption which destroys the Extortioner's base. Enraged, the Extortioner pursues the Doctor in his giant mechanical mole. The Doctor lures him to a crack caused by the volcano's eruption and he falls to his doom. The Doctor returns to the TARDIS.

Characters

• Second Doctor
• John and Gillian
• The Extortioner

References

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Notes

• This was the first TV Comic story to feature the Second Doctor. No explanation is given or even acknowledged for the Doctor's change of appearance or personality.
• This strip marks the beginning of the trend to sideline John and Gillian from the action.

Continuity

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