Kidnap! (comic story)

Kidnap! was a Fireball XL5 comic printed in TV Century 21 in 1967.

Spanning six issues, it constituted the entirety of the fourth and final crossover story arc in the pages of TV21 to focus on the inhabitants of the planet Astra, first mentioned in The Rescue.

Summary
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Characters

 * Steve Zodiac
 * Venus
 * Professor Matic
 * Commander Zero
 * Robert the Robot
 * The Kaplan
 * Kaplan Minor
 * Gonzales
 * Andromedan
 * Robot Kaplan Minor

Worldbuilding

 * The Kaplan Minor is visiting Unity City in Ship Z65.
 * Steve plans to use a tracking device hidden in the money container in order to follow the perpetrators of the crime after agreeing to the ransom.
 * Gonzales takes the Kaplan Minor to the Andromedan base in the upper Amazon.
 * Steve and Robert are threatened by flesh-eating piranhas.
 * Gonzales and the Andromedan put Fireball XL5 on a collision course with Kapland, hoping to blame the World Space Patrol for the death of the Kaplan Minor.

Story notes

 * Kidnap! was the final Doctor Who universe story to be printed within the pages of TV Century 21. Its final part was published in the last issue before the magazine formally changed its name to TV21 meaning that, although The Daleks had concluded at the beginning of 1967, there was DWU content in both the first and last issues of the publication known as TV Century 21. This was also true for every issue, with the exception of the three immediately preceding the printing of this story.
 * Kidnap! was also the final Fireball XL5 comic story published in either TV Century 21 or TV21, albeit after the strip had been demoted to black-and-white. The series maintained a presence in TV21 through short text stories but was dropped from the magazine entirely after just thirteen more issues.

Continuity

 * The Kaplan says that the Solar System planets are the best allies of the Astran Empire. (COMIC: Astra's Final Battle, Andromeda Or Die, The Shrink Ray)
 * The Astrans teeter on the edge of Space War with humanity yet again after the Kaplan Minor is kidnapped. (COMIC: Space Border Battle, Ceasefire — But War Tension Mounts... et al.)