Icemen of Space was a Fireball XL5 comic printed in TV Century 21 in 1965.
The story crossed over with the Doctor Who universe by marking the reappearance of the planet Uraniture, which had debuted in the Dalek short story Ice Planet Mystery.
Summary[]
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Characters[]
Worldbuilding[]
- The Yellow Valley is in Area A4B2 on Uraniture.
- Matic describes Uraniture to Venus as a "beautiful place" with a mass of coloured ice fields and ice trees.
- The expedition is made up of two men; Bentley is from Earth while Estermil is from the planet Plaquer and has four arms.
- Estermil believes one of the snowman is trying to communicate through thought waves.
- Fireball XL5 brings six months of supplies to Uraniture.
- Robert is fitted with a television camera but he is soon incapacitated by being knocked off his jetmobile.
- Bentley identifies the snowmen as Uraniturians and Klawking as their leader.
- After leaving the planet, Matic determines that the snowmen were zombies in a coat of ice and that once Klawking was killed there was nothing to keep them going.
Story notes[]
- Like most of TV Century 21's The Daleks comic stories from the same era, this comic serial was not given a title in the pages of TV Century 21 during its original printing; the title instead comes from later reference sources.
Continuity[]
- The 2062, 2063 and 2064 expeditions that the World Ministry of Planet Surveying had launched to Uraniture all also failed under similar circumstances. Each time, a pair of surveyors disappeared within hours of landing while mapping the planet. (PROSE: Ice Planet Mystery)
- Space City ordered Fireball XL7 to Uraniture after recieving a report from XL5 stating that hostile aliens were attempting to snow them under. (COMIC: Plague of Death)
