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Free-Fall Warriors (comic series) and Captain Britain (1985) (the publication the four stories appeared in) have been nominated for deletion as they do not contain stories within the DWU.

I disagree with this assessment as these four comic stories explicitly meant to be an origin story for the titular Freefall Warriors, first seen in Doctor Who and the Free-Fall Warriors (comic story). Let's go over the four little rules:

They are stories.

They were licensed by relevant copyright holders, namely Marvel UK.

They were officially released in 1985.



Ah, now this is where we get to the debate; are these stories set in the DWU? Unlike the contentious Death's Head stories; in my view, these are pretty cut and dry parts of the DWU from the very first page of the first story: "Warworld: The origin of THE FREE-FALL WARRIORS..." (see image)

The writers very well intended these to be the same Freefall Warriors from Doctor Who and the Free-Fall Warriors (comic story).

I must confess I have not read these stories in full, but I have them and will surely move them up on my priority list and add any additional information I find for bonus legitimacy points:


 * Intra-Venus, Inc. is heavily referenced.


 * Shaman Kahn appears in the third story and first appeared in A Ship Called Sudden Death (comic story), a Doctor-less comic story about the Freefall Warriors from DWMS Summer 1982.