The Gyros Injustice

Yeah, this isn't a particularly good comic. Featuring the First Doctor and his grandchildren Gillian and John (always an amusing facet of the franchise), the earliest comic book TARDIS crew encounters some robots called Gyros that are keeping some sick people away from food. They spend most of the comic investigating what the robots are doing with said food, only to find it is a sort of quarantine situation. The Gyros capture Gillian and so the Doctor and John go to some sort of volcanic region where they rescue her. There really isn't a lot compelling to the story, even though it feels as though it could have been an early take on pandemics and how an advanced race might get stuck in a situation where they have to control it, like in the Girl Who Waited but done in the style of the Daleks. Instead it feels more like Galaxy 4 - interesting ideas and some creative visuals, but failing to realize its potential.

I don't think these TV comics were equipped for that sort of thing though. These stories are told two pages at a time, so the pacing is fragmented as the story basically has to constantly reset itself across an already short 8 pages total. That probably explains why these stories aren't rated all that well.