Capture (comic story)

Capture was a Zero X comic printed in TV Century 21 in 1969.

The location of Unity City, first introduced in The Daleks story Duel of the Daleks, was crucial to the framing narrative which enabled the events of the story to be reported on by TV 21, thus constituting a crossover with the Doctor Who universe.

Summary
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Characters

 * Paul Travers
 * Greg Martin
 * Brad Newman
 * Ray Pierce
 * James Freeman
 * Bob Reed
 * Roger James
 * Doctor Ransome
 * Control
 * First Gorgation
 * Second Gorgation

Worldbuilding

 * News of Zero X's mission is relayed to TV 21 by reporters James Freeman, Bob Reed and Roger James, and TV21 Satellite A A. 92, and screened for release by Unity City Control.
 * The Alien Space Hospital sends an alarm signal through on the automatic wavelength which is picked up by Glenn Field.
 * The hospital normally holds over three thousand sick aliens on its wards.
 * Greg comments that Ransome was "absorbed like a blob of ink on a clean sheet of blotting paper".
 * Paul uses a magnesium flare to counteract the camouflage of the Gorgation ship.
 * The Gorgations introduce themselves to the Zero X crew as "doctors of the universe".
 * The first Gorgation explains that two astric years ago their planet Gorgat was exposed to intense heat following a solar explosion, resulting in the destruction of their Intelligentsia Complex and the deaths of the super-brains who made up the ruling classes.
 * The Gorgations reduce Brad's mental age to that of a three-year-old baby.

Story notes

 * While Planet of Bones described those screening TV 21's reports for release as "Earth Control at Unity City" this story named them simply as Unity City Control.

Continuity

 * TV 21 reported upon the launch of Zero X from Glenn Field, bound for a then-unknown destination, on its front page. (PROSE: Football United Starts Today!)