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shortly thereafter had their own comic books as well. Some of these comics were used as the basis for a
British TV Annual, a hardcover collection produced in time for Christmas, which also made the claim that man would venture into space in 1970 and would have a
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from being destroyed by an approaching comet. Later episodes' television listings seem to indicate that Captain Video and other characters on the show were indeed capable of routine
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by the neck, fixing to drown him." The scene Violet describes portends later developments in the novel.
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