Operation Proteus (comic story)

Operation Proteus
Doctor:	First Doctor
Companion(s):	Susan
Main enemy:	Raldonn
Main setting:	Shoreditch and King's Cross tube station, October 1963
Key crew
Publisher:	Marvel Comics UK
Editor:	Gary Gillatt
Writer:	Gareth Roberts
Artist:	Martin Geraghty
Letterer:	Elitta Fell
Release details
Number of parts:	3
Printed in:	Doctor Who Magazine 231 - 233
Release date:	28 September - 23 November 1995
Cover date:	25 October - 20 December 1995
Reprinted in:	Ground Zero
Format:	Comic
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Operation Proteus was a First Doctor comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine, issues 231 - 233.

Summary

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

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Characters

• First Doctor
• Susan Foreman
• Clive
• Dick Ashley
• Grove
• Laura Daniels
• The Minister
• Raldonn

References

• Raldonn's craft is powered by psychic energy.

Notes

• COMIC: Ground Zero sets this story in October 1963.

Continuity

• In one frame, Susan (wearing a hat) meets an off-frame individual, before later turning up without the hat. This is later revealed the Threshold, who kidnapped her in COMIC: Ground Zero, before returning her to the same time and place.