The Third Doctor's first season continues with another comic: "The Mysterious Meteorite".
A large ferrous meteorite lands near an airfield which of course attracts UNIT's attention. Standard Operating Procedure dictates that the Brigadier enlists the help of the Doctor and so he does. Our beloved Time Lord investigates the large iron mass. Finding it safe, he declares it fit for a museum.
The iron giant is transported via truck to its new home but small hole opens on it from which escapes a cloud of iron filings. No ordinary filings, they are sentient and quite hungry. And so they attach themselves to metal where they dine like a king. Bridges, storage tanks, airplanes, guns - anything made of metal becomes part of their smorgasbord. You can see where this would cause problems.
The Doctor is ably assisted by Liz Shaw in what I think is a first for these TV comics and they discover that the iron filings are alive. By chance they dined on a tank full of Rust-Oleum, er, an anti-corrosive liquid which provides a cure for infection by the wee iron beasties.
A fairly standard TV comics adventure notable for the presence of Liz which makes me wonder why she wasn't in earlier comics. She was present in Spearhead From Space so why did it take so long for her to appear in print? While she does lend a hand here, she doesn't exactly put her scientific genius to work. And wasn't she an expert on meteorites?
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