The Syndicate of the Faceless Ones (comic story)

The Syndicate of the Faceless Ones was a 21 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

 * Twenty One
 * Kingdom
 * President Roberts
 * Zirgon
 * Gel Darvay
 * Professor Rosto
 * Rab Hamilton
 * Milton Scott
 * Agent 42
 * Commander

Worldbuilding

 * Twenty One's investigation into the Syndicate of Faceless Ones is documented in USS file report LM5/Red/6, visual reports from Rab Hamilton, on-the-spot coverage by Milton Scott, and relayed from USS security as well as beamed to Unity City through video-link.
 * Kingdom's mini-jets give him a thirty foot clearance when jumping.
 * Twenty One and Kingdom catch the space bus from Kahra to London.
 * One woman refers to Darvay as the most dangerous criminal ever to run a protection racket.
 * The Syndicate uses stun-gas both for the retrieval of Darvay and the rescue of the prisoners.
 * Twenty One adds an infrared camera and detonator pellets to Kingdom's collar.
 * Zirgon's "one weakness" is conceit.
 * Fire-floats attend to the fire which Zirgon causes in Warehouse 14.
 * One guard states his belief that a shadow could not get out of Daleford Top Security Prison while another agrees, noting the prison's alarms, closed-circuit television and electrified fence.
 * Twenty One uses a helijet, specifically Helijet 3, to pursue Zirgon.
 * Twenty One's deadly toy tank emits a blinding light which hampers the sight of its victims for several hours.
 * The security men use a fire-lance to break through a steel door in the Syndicate headquarters.

Story notes

 * This story marked the return of 21 to a length of two pages for each part, after the preceding story The Space Pirates had been the last with the temporarily-reduced length of one-and-a-half pages every issue.

Continuity

 * Twenty One continued to work with Kingdom in the following months. (PROSE: Stalemate!)