The Three Aliens

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Episode 11 of The Trigan Empire

The Three Aliens
aka The Luminous Spheres
The Alien Invasion (The Collection)
De lichtende bollen (Dutch title)
The Luminous Orbs (Dutch title, translated)
A Tale of Invasion (Hawk reprint)

Written by Mike Butterworth
Illustrated by Don Lawrence

The Three Aliens was originally published in 7 instalments in issues 291 (12 August 1967) to 297 (23 September 1967) of Look and Learn magazine.

It was reprinted in 1975 in Vulcan comic.

It was reprinted in 1989 as A Tale of Invasion in Tales from the Trigan Empire (Hawk).

It was reprinted in 2007 in The Bumper Book of Look and Learn (Century).

It is reprinted in Volume 3 of The Trigan Empire—The Collection (the Don Lawrence Collection).

It is reprinted in Volume 1 of The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire (Rebellion).

Plot summary

A strange spaceship lands in a mountainous region of Hericon. Three glowing spheres emerge from the spaceship. The glowing spheres take possession of three sleeping gelfs. The next night, one of them moves into the herd’s shepherd. The other two move into Janno and Keren, who are on their way to Hericon.

When Kassar, the king of Hericon, falls asleep, the shepherd’s glowing sphere transfers into him. When Emperor Trigo is visiting, Janno’s sphere transfers into him. Freed from the spheres, Janno realises what has happened and the others try to kill him, but he escapes.

Trigo, Kassar, and Keren—possessed by the glowing spheres—seek to conquer the planet. Janno, Peric, and a troop of Trigan City officers decide to capture the three. They threaten to kill them if the glowing spheres do not leave. Therefore, the spheres transfer into three gelfs, who go on to live their lives apart from all other living beings.