Business as Usual (comic story)

Summary
In 1989, ex-plumber Winston Blunt finds a sphere that’s one of six fallen from the sky. Winston soon patents a new method of bonding carbon atoms and sets up Galaxy Plastics Inc. Before shooting himself he appoints Mr. Dolman to run the company. When the industrial spy Max Fisher breaks into the factory, he is attacked by plastic action figures before being caught by Dolman and the Nestene Intelligence. Max throws a spanner that damages the Nestene tank and causes an explosion, but Max is pursued by the remains of the Dolman Auton. Max Fisher dies in a car accident whilst fighting miniture dolls but in August of 1990 one Max Fisher invests money in a plastics factory and leaves behind flowers on a shallow grave - plastic flowers of course!

Characters

 * Winston Blunt
 * Mr Dolman
 * Max Fisher

Original Print Details (Publication with page count and closing captions)

 * 1) DWM Issue 40  (2)  … To be Continued
 * 2) DWM Issue 41  (2)  To be Continued ...
 * 3) DWM Issue 42  (2)
 * 4) DWM Issue 43  (2)  The End

Reprints

 * Coloured and reprinted by Marvel in DWUS
 * Reprinted in the DWMS Summer Special 1981
 * This story was repeated as a one part story in DWM Issue 184 as a filler for a delay in the regular ongoing adventures of the main Doctor led comic strip (Evening’s Empire)

Continuity
to be added