Cloud of Death (comic story)

Cloud of Death was a Thunderbirds comic printed in TV Century 21 in 1967.

The story crossed over with the Doctor Who universe by featuring as one of its settings Unity City, a location first introduced in The Daleks story Duel of the Daleks.

Summary
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Characters

 * Jeff Tracy
 * Scott Tracy
 * Brains
 * John Tracy
 * Gordon Tracy
 * Virgil Tracy
 * Pops
 * Scientist
 * Oxygen unit tester

Worldbuilding

 * The poisonous gas which knocks out the personnel of Space Research Centre 10 was collected during an expedition to the planet Minos.
 * Scott watches a flock of seagulls succumb to the gas cloud from Thunderbird 1.
 * The cloud travels south at rate five from its position over S.R. Ten's island on the east coast of Africa which would put it over Newhaven City after twenty minutes.
 * A notice in Newhaven City warns citizens to "take civil emergency measures".
 * Brains uses a giant suction unit powered by Thunderbird 2's engines to capture the gas in a polyplastic bag and then cooling units to force the gas to contract so all of it can be contained.
 * The World President asks International Rescue to dump the bag full of gas in space and Alan obliges using Thunderbird 3.
 * Brains ponders what other dangers man will being back from space in the quest for knowledge.

Story notes

 * This story's title panel on its first page was accompanied by a photograph of Thunderbird 3 in flight, mirroring the end of the story where the craft blasts off to dispose of the gas in space.

Continuity

 * International Rescue again team-up with the World Government to neutralise a threat from space. (COMIC: Solar Danger)