Cloud of Death (comic story)

Cloud of Death was a Thunderbirds comic printed in TV Century 21 in 1967.
The story crossed over with the Doctor Who universe by featuring as one of its settings Unity City, a location first introduced in The Daleks story Duel of the Daleks.
== Summary ==
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== Characters ==
* Jeff Tracy
* Scott Tracy
* Brains
* John Tracy
* Gordon Tracy
* Virgil Tracy
* Pops
* Scientist
* Oxygen unit tester
== Worldbuilding ==
* The poisonous gas which knocks out the personnel of Space Research Centre 10 was collected during an expedition to the planet Minos.
* Scott watches a flock of seagulls succumb to the gas cloud from Thunderbird 1.
* The cloud travels south at rate five from its position over S.R. Ten's island on the east coast of Africa which would put it over Newhaven City after twenty minutes.
* A notice in Newhaven City warns citizens to "take civil emergency measures".
* Brains uses a giant suction unit powered by Thunderbird 2s engines to capture the gas in a polyplastic bag and then cooling units to force the gas to contract so all of it can be contained.
* The World President asks International Rescue to dump the bag full of gas in space and Alan obliges using Thunderbird 3.
* Brains ponders what other dangers man will being back from space in the quest for knowledge.
== Story notes ==
* This story's title panel on its first page was accompanied by a photograph of Thunderbird 3 in flight, mirroring the end of the story where the craft blasts off to dispose of the gas in space.
== Continuity ==
* International Rescue again team-up with the World Government to neutralise a threat from space. (COMIC: Solar Danger)
Category:TV21 comic stories
Category:1967 comic stories
Category:Stories set in 2067
Category:Comic stories set in Africa
Category:Stories that crossover with non-DWU series