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A weekly rummage in the attic of sci-fi
Look! It's, uh, Dr.Who, offering a set of six super badges! The early '70s found Jon Pertwee's dandy Time Lord - looking like a slightly sinister ragdoll, it must be said - fronting this promotional campaign for Kellogg's. The giveaway gifts included an official UNIT squaddie badge, entitling the bearer to suffer a ghastly fate at the scaly hands of some alien uggo with designs on the Earth.
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Nick Setchfield is the Editor-at-Large for SFX Magazine, writing features, reviews, interviews, and more for the monthly issues. However, he is also a freelance journalist and author with Titan Books. His original novels are called The War in the Dark, and The Spider Dance. He's also written a book on James Bond called Mission Statements.