The Metal Eaters (comic story)

The Metal Eaters was a TV Comic story featuring the Third Doctor and Liz Shaw in her comic debut. It was historic as it featured the first comic strip appearance of a televised female companion contemporaneous — if only barely — with her appearance on television. It also featured the first comic appearance of the Doctor's car, Bessie, although the car wasn't actually named in the strip.
== Summary ==
After a meteorite crashes and is taken to a museum, unusual corrosion occurs nearby. The Third Doctor and Liz Shaw investigate and discover an extraterrestrial culprit.
== Plot ==
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== Characters ==
* Third Doctor
* Liz Shaw
* Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
* Professor Sinclair
* UNIT Sergeant
* Charlie
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Doctor drives Bessie.
* Siderite is a mineral composed of iron.
* BM Chemicals has storage tanks at Whitford.
* An aeroplane at West Barnton Airfield was due to take children to Holland for a school holiday.
== Notes ==
* This was Liz Shaw's first appearance in any comic strip.
* The "Third Doctor Comics" section of classicdoctorwhocomics titles this story The Mysterious Meteorite.
=== Original print details ===
:(Publication with page count and closing captions)
* TVC 960 (2 pages) Are these iron particles alive ? Follow Dr. Who next week.
* TVC 961 (2 pages) What has happened to the sergeant ? See next week.
* TVC 961 (2 pages) [No closing caption]
* TVC 962 (2 pages) But Dr. Who is unaware of one group of filings... For they left the meteorite before it was moved to the museum...
* TVC 963 (2 pages) A next exciting serial begins next week.
== Continuity ==
* UNIT once again investigates a fallen meteorite. (TV: )
== External links ==
Category:Stories set in England
Category:Stories set in the 1970s
Category:Third Doctor TVC comic stories
Category:1970 comic stories
Category:UNIT comic stories
Category:Third Doctor comic stories
Category:Five part comics