![]() ![]() Harvey futilely attempted to stop Doomlord, but was unable to convince anyone else of the alien's existence. In this way, he could move freely amongst human society, leaving only a trail of missing persons as he abandoned each identity for a new one. He would then disintegrate their corpse with his energiser ring, and then use another alien ability – to shapeshift his form to resemble his absorbed victim, and thus impersonate them flawlessly. Over the next few issues, Harvey pieced together what was happening - Doomlord had the power to murder people, and absorb their memories and personality by touch. 'Bob' arranged a meeting with a local Member of Parliament and then disappeared. At the local police station, he discovered Bob alive, laughing at his friend's 'dream' – however, Bob was wearing the alien's "energiser ring". He then knocked Harvey unconscious, who awoke to find himself alone. He described himself as "Doomlord – servant of Nox, master of life, bringer of death!" Doomlord then killed Bob by seemingly merely grasping Bob's head in his hands. ![]() The meteor was in fact a spaceship bringing a sinister robed alien to Earth. The story tells of how journalist Howard Harvey and a policeman friend, Bob Murton, witnessed an apparent meteor falling into local woods. Like many of the strips then published in Eagle, it was made up of black-and-white photographs featuring models and actors, with text boxes and speech and thought balloons. ![]() ![]() The strip originally appeared as a 13-part story in the first 13 issues of the re-launched Eagle, and was science horror in tone. ![]()
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