Planet of Bones (comic story)

Planet of Bones was a Zero X comic printed in TV Century 21 in 1969.

The location of Unity City, first introduced in The Daleks story Duel of the Daleks, was crucial to the framing narrative which enabled the events of the story to be reported on by TV 21, thus constituting a crossover with the Doctor Who universe.

Summary
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Characters

 * Paul Travers
 * Greg Martin
 * Ray Pierce
 * Brad Newman
 * Leon Vatski
 * James Freeman
 * Carson

Worldbuilding

 * News of the mission to Verspona is relayed to TV 21 by World Government Satellite PK19, reporter James Freeman, TV21 Satellite 72/AI, TV21 Space Station KP/62, and screened by Earth Control at Unity City.
 * Zenith 4 is a star-speed space freighter of the World Space Patrol.
 * Greg observes through binoculars Vatski "hopping about like a mother hen with a dozen wayward chicks".
 * Paul tells Greg to prepare mono-stretchers in order to assist the crew of the stricken Zenith 4.
 * Greg compares the apparent lifelessness of the skulls in the cave to empty sea shells.
 * Advanced lymphatic tissue and periosteum are most of the materials necessary for the growth and development of bones in a living being.
 * Ray uses an insta-sealing unit to repair the hole in Greg's spacesuit.
 * Paul likens the Bone Monster to a prehistoric rhino.

Story notes

 * This story marked the first Zero X story to contain elements from the Doctor Who universe, though characters and the concepts from the series had freely crossed over as early as 1967's Stingray Storm!.

Continuity

 * TV 21 reported upon Paul Travers' decision to return to Verspona on its front page. (PROSE: 7,124 M.P.H., Crash Dive!)