The Reactor (comic story)

The Reactor was a Fireball XL5 comic printed in TV Century 21 in 1966.

The story crossed over with the Doctor Who universe by marking the reappearance of the planet X 400, which had debuted in The Daleks comic story Shadow of Humanity.

Summary
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Characters

 * Steve Zodiac
 * Matthew Matic
 * Commander Zero
 * Venus
 * Robert the Robot
 * Ginger Scott

Worldbuilding

 * X 400 is a deserted planet which serves as a graveyard for obselete spacecraft.
 * Ginger believes he will be able to live high for a month on the money he will get for the abandoned reactor housing.
 * Steve and Mat's jetmobiles have instruments that warn them of radiation.
 * After the reactor explodes, the entire area becomes volcanic.
 * Zero orders GK 10 back to Space City so the craft it is carrying can have a refit at Ginger's expense. This is so it can replace his ship, P1012, which was engulfed by lava in the eruption.

Story notes

 * Like most of TV Century 21's The Daleks comic stories from the same era, this comic serial was not given a title in the pages of TV Century 21 during its original printing; the title instead comes from later reference sources.
 * The junkyard planet is referred to solely as "the graveyard" in this story. Its official designation comes from Shadow of Humanity.

Continuity

 * When reports reached Space City of the live atomic reactor on X 400, all space traffic in sector 23 was banned for a short period while the crisis was dealt with. (COMIC: Shadow of Humanity)