The Metal Eaters (comic 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 appearance of a televised female companion contemporaneous — if only barely — with her appearance on television.

Summary
After a meteorite crashes and is taken to a museum, unusual corrosion occurs nearby. The Doctor and Liz Shaw investigate and discover an extraterrestrial culprit.

Plot
to be added

Characters

 * Third Doctor
 * Liz Shaw
 * Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

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)
 * 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
to be added