Appearing in "When the Star-Creature Strikes!"[]
Featured characters:
Supporting characters:
Villains:
- The Lurker from Loch Ness (is blown up)
Other characters:
- Mr McNab (drowns)
Location:
- Loch Ness
Items:
- Button torn from Mr McNab's coat
Vehicles:
- Spaceship disguised as prehistoric monster
Synopsis for "When the Star-Creature Strikes!"[]
Captain Britain hears the story of the green scaly alien who runs the giant mechanical Loch Ness Monster. To save humanity from its evil scheme, he makes the Monster blow up. On the shore of the loch, Jacko Tanner finds a button torn from someone's coat in the shed where the cable of the bathysphere was kept. Because Mr McNab is missing a button from his coat, Jacko decides that it was he who cut the cable of the bathysphere and tried to kill him and Courtney. Mr McNab panics, jumps into the lake and is sucked under by the whirlpool caused by the giant mechanical Loch Ness Monster exploding. The real Loch Ness Monster is fine, but Brian, Jacko and Courtney don't notice it because they're all on their way to town (probably off down the pub), having decided that the explosion was caused by "detonation equipment left over from a previous expedition."
Notes[]
- Published by Marvel UK in the week ending August 3rd, 1977.
- A panel of this story is reprinted in Hulk Comic #36.
Trivia[]
Jacko and Courtney are the worst students ever. Courtney saw a monster on the sonar scanner, they all saw a random explosion occur in the loch, the local innkeeper tried to kill them, and they decide that nothing about this warrants further investigation? "Meh, it was probably some detonation equipment that decided to detonate itself. And Scottish people are notoriously homicidal. Well, let's get back to London and write up our findings."
Recommended reading[]
The next comic in this series.
Links and references[]
See also: Captain Britain trade paperback.