Desert Drama (comic story)

Desert Drama was the title attributed to the climax of an otherwise untitled Thunderbirds comic printed in Lady Penelope across 1966 and 1967.

The story featured the return of Jimmy Bondson, the titular British Secret Service agent in The Man from MI.5, the only episode of the television series to feature the Daleks. It was also a continuation of the story arc involving Mr Steelman's quest for revenge against Lady Penelope, which had started in the Doctor Who universe crossover Mr. Steelman.

Desert Drama was also notable for being the final Thunderbirds story released concurrently with The Daleks in the sister magazine TV Century 21; the final part of The Road to Conflict was published on the same day as this story's concluding instalment.

Summary
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Characters

 * Penelope Creighton-Ward
 * Parker
 * Mr Steelman
 * Jimmy Bondson
 * Digby Short
 * Mr Andershill
 * Colonel Thomas
 * Paul Carson
 * Stevens
 * Prison officer
 * Security guard

Story notes

 * Paul Carson's outfit in this story is almost identical to the Spectrum uniform worn by Captain Scarlet. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons was still almost a year away from its premiere broadcast at the time Desert Drama was published so the similarity would have gone unnoticed by contemporary readers.

Continuity

 * Mr Steelman is being held in the Moorland Prison of Cradley three months after being defeated by Lady Penelope and Parker. (COMIC: The Great Silver Robbery!)
 * Lady Penelope recalls that Jimmy Bondson is a secret agent she helped out in Monte Carlo. (TV: The Man from MI.5)