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 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

 * Third Doctor
 * Liz Shaw
 * Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Professor Sinclair
 * UNIT Sergeant
 * Charlie

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.

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

 * UNIT once again investigates a fallen meteorite. (TV: )