The Long Road Back (comic story)

The Long Road Back was a 21 comic printed in TV Century 21 in 1966.

It was the final part of the second crossover story arc in the pages of TV21 to focus on the inhabitants of the planet Astra, first mentioned in The Rescue. Instead of directly featuring the Astrans, The Long Road Back once again followed Brent Cleever after his resignation from the Universal Secret Service to seek revenge for the murder of Tina Palamac in Andromeda Or Die, a fate ultimately sealed by Astra's presence in that story.

Summary
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Characters

 * Brent Cleever
 * S
 * Colonel Tobolsk
 * Colonel Kadomba
 * Hans Surbeck
 * Bruce Silver

Worldbuilding

 * Surbeck is 24 years old and Silver is 32.
 * The Bereznik Secret Police have developed a toy snake that shoots a truth serum from its tail.
 * Surbeck also uses a toy mouse with a mobile TV camera.
 * When he was fourteen, Silver won seven Olympic Games medals and became "the world's greatest sportsman".

Story notes

 * At the end of this story, a relieved S allows Twenty One to rejoin the Universal Secret Service. This concluded the story arc begun in Andromeda Or Die, a storyline instigated by Bereznik's involvement in a plot to kill the Astran Kaplan and their subsequent murder of Twenty One's friend Agent Tina Palamac.

Continuity

 * Brent Cleever has resigned from the Universal Secret Service. (COMIC: Andromeda Or Die)
 * Cleever is in Berlin and reflects that both the USS and the Bereznik Secret Police will hunt him because he has vital information in his head that a hostile power would do anything to obtain. (COMIC: The Bitter Cold Dish)