The first comic strip appearance of the Daleks came in the Dalek Book 1965 (which was actually released in 1964), an annual-style publication that featured an enviable six strips featuring Skaro’s finest.

This book tells the story of the Daleks’ attempted invasion of the Solar System, and fits well with continuity later established in the TV Century 21 strip. Many of the stories also fit with ideas later mentioned in the Curse of the Daleks stage play, making its stories a valuable addition to alternative Dalek continuity.

ARTISTS: Richard Jennings, John Wood, A.B. Cornwell
WRITERS: David Whitaker/Terry Nation.

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Jeff Stone infiltrates the Dalek city on Skaro and takes back to Earth a secret document detailing the anatomy of a Dalek.

This strip is interesting as it isn’t really a comic strip in the traditional sense of the word at all, more a pictorial guided tour of the Dalek city with a cutaway of a Dalek halfway through strung together with an exceptionally loose narrative.

Looking for Daleks on Mars, Mary, Jeff and Andy discover a plot to infiltrate the Earth with android replicas, an idea that would later find currency in the series itself - first through Nation’s own The Chase, then through his The Android Invasion and finally through Resurrection of the Daleks.

Captured by the Daleks, Andy and Mary must survive the savage two-headed Horrorkon monsters on the planet Gurnian, but the Horrorkons prove unusual allies.

This story features the wonderfully bizarre Marsh Dalek, seen above on its long, stilt-like legs.

The two-headed and ferocious Horrorkons are clearly the ancestors of the Terrorkons who would later terrorise the pages of the TV21 Dalek strip.

The Daleks sue for peace, but on the moon, a naughty sneaky Dalek task force prepares to bombard the Earth with moon dust.

On 23 January 1965, the Daleks made their first appearance in their own full colour comic strip on the back page of the lavish new children's weekly comic TV Century 21. Written largely by David Whitaker, who was Doctor Who’s original script editor, and illustrated by such legendary comic strip artists as Richard Jennings, Ron Turner and Eric Eden, this popular one-page strip ran for sixteen stories over one hundred and four instalments, and finally concluded on the brink of the Daleks' planned attack on the inhabitants of Earth, which ties in very nicely with the continuity established in The Dalek Book (see above).

Please note that, on their original publication, the sixteen stories that comprise the Daleks strip did not have individual titles and are presented here in this format purely for ease of reference.

ARTIST: Richard Jennings
ISSUES: 1-3
COVER DATES: 23 January 1965 - 6 February 1965
REPRINTS: Doctor Who Weekly, Issue 33 (black & white), Doctor Who Monthly, Issues 180-182

The war between the Dals and the Thals has raged for generations. War Minister Zolfian and Chief Scientist Yarvelling have devised a way to finally bring the conflict to an end using neutron bombs and killing machines. But when their plans go disastrously awry, it looks like the end of all life on Skaro. Could anything survive?

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
A good but not outstanding start to the strip. Jennings has yet to perfect his Daleks, which are very oddly proportioned, but the rest of the art is glorious.

ARTIST: Richard Jennings
ISSUES: 4-10
COVER DATES: 13 February 1965 - 8 May 1965
REPRINTS: Doctor Who Holiday Special 1974 (black & white), Doctor Who Weekly, Issues 33-34 (black & white), Doctor Who Monthly, Issues 183-188

An alien spaceship lands on Skaro. The Daleks see its potential and plan to steal the ship away. However, the ship belongs to slave traders, and with both slaves and masters eager to stay alive, a dangerous game of intrigue begins.

ARTIST: Richard Jennings
ISSUES: 11-17
COVER DATES: 3 April 1965 - 15 May 1965
REPRINTS: Doctor Who Holiday Special 1973 (black &  white, with title given as Dalek Duel), Doctor Who Weekly, Issues 35-36 (black & white), Doctor Who Monthly, Issues 189-193

When his casing becomes strengthened following a freak accident, Dalek worker Zeg challenges the Emperor’s authority.

But which will triumph, the Emperor’s cunning and intelligence or Zeg’s great strength?

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
And suddenly the strip is firing on all cylinders with one of the best and most popular stories in the entire run. Zeg is a great character and his battle with the Emperor is imaginative, tense and exciting which makes for some great cliffhanger endings. The Black Dalek makes his first appearance here too.

ARTIST: Richard Jennings
ISSUES: 18-24
COVER DATES: 22 May 1965 - 3 July 1965
REPRINTS: Doctor Who Weekly, Issues 36-37 (black & white abridged), Doctor Who Classic Comics, Issues 1 & 2

The Daleks make it into space in their now-familiar saucers. Their first target for conquest is the planet Alvega, closest of all worlds to Skaro. However, the unusual inhabitants of Alvega have other ideas.

Soon it is a fight to the death between the Daleks and a life form different to them in every way.

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
You might expect the Daleks’ first foray into conquest to be a fairly standard affair, but this is far from it. The Amarylls and the controlling Root are memorable and beautifully depicted. The final showdown with a lone Dalek is masterfully done and we’re rooting for the Daleks all the way!

ARTIST: Richard Jennings
ISSUES: 25-32
COVER DATES: 10 July 1965 - 28 August 1965
REPRINTS: Reprinted in the 1977 Dalek Annual under the title The Envoys of Evil, Doctor Who Weekly, Issues 37-39 (black & white), Doctor Who Classic Comics, Issues 2 & 3.

The Daleks land on the planet Solturis declaring peace. It's an unlikely claim, but the locals have no reason to disbelieve - apart from old Lurr, who has seen a vision of the future, showing destruction and slavery beneath the Daleks. But who will listen to his claims?

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
A solid story. Here we’re rooting for the humans. What an odd and schizophrenic strip The Daleks is...

ARTIST: Richard Jennings
ISSUES: 33-39
COVER DATES: 4 September 1965 - 16 October 1965
REPRINTS: Reprinted in Doctor Who Weekly, Issues 39-40 (black & white), Doctor Who Classic Comics, Issues 4 & 5.

The Emperor’s plans for universal conquest are disrupted when he receives an urgent call from Skaro - a new and deadly threat faces the Daleks, one that could spell the end of the Dalek race!

ARTIST: Richard Jennings
ISSUES: 40-46
COVER DATES: 23 October 1965 - 4 December 1965
REPRINTS: Reprinted in the 1977 Dalek Annual, then in Doctor Who Weekly, Issues 40-42 (black & white), Doctor Who Classic Comics, Issues 4 & 5.

An alien vessel lands on Skaro and, with the Daleks in disarray, the cruel Monstron invaders and their Engibrain robots are soon able to shatter the Daleks’ supremacy.

With the Dalek city destroyed and the Emperor lost, what hope remains for the survival of the Dalek race?

ARTIST: Eric Eden
ISSUES: 52-58
COVER DATES: 15 January 1966 - 26 February 1966
REPRINTS: Doctor Who Monthly, Issues 54-55 (black & white), Doctor Who Classic Comics, Issue 6

Intent on finding weapons to defeat the Mechanoids, the Daleks discover a planet concealed behind an invisible barrier. Little do they know that the planet is Phryne, and that the inhabitants guard the secrets of a hundred worlds. But the Daleks will not be content until all secrets are theirs. Even if it means exterminating everything...

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
And suddenly it becomes clear that the Dalek-Mechanoid war is an exercise in delay, motivating the action but never being the action. Still, the ending of this impressively illustrated strip, with Skardal on a collision course for Mechanus, seems to promise that the war is finally hotting up...

ARTIST: Ron Turner
ISSUES: 63-69
COVER DATES: 2 April 1966 - 14 May 1966
REPRINTS: Reprinted in the 1978 Dalek Annual, then Doctor Who Monthly, Issues 61-66, 68, Doctor Who Classic Comics, Issue 12.

Daleks and Mechanoids are poised on the brink of war, but the Zerovians fear the victors will sweep aside all other species in the galaxy. Their answer is to dispatch robot agent 2K. His mission: to stop the war. But against the might of both the Daleks and the Mechanoids, what can one robot do?

ARTIST: Ron Turner
ISSUES: 70-75
COVER DATES: 21 May 1966 - 25 June 1966
REPRINTS: Doctor Who Classic Comics, Issue 14

The Terrorkons, savage and insatiable carnivores that inhabit the Lake of Mutations. A natural defence for the Dalek city. But the Lake also houses the Daleks’ missile defence system.

When one of those missiles falls into the claws of a Terrorkon, the Daleks face the total devastation of their city.

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
Perhaps it’s the comedown from a run of brilliant strips, or a continuation of the disappointment that there will be no war in space, but this strip feels tired and not a little flat, despite some strong artwork from Turner. The idea of the Daleks building their missile defence system in such deadly waters is frankly ludicrous, and the Terrorkon is finally defeated not by Dalek ingenuity but by a chance attack from a giant eel! An unsatisfying tale.

ARTIST: Ron Turner
ISSUES: 76-85
COVER DATES: 2 July 1966 - 3 September 1966
REPRINTS: Doctor Who Classic Comics,  Issues 15 & 16

Hidden deep within Skaro’s Northern pole, frozen for centuries, are the last three survivors of the original Dalek race.

When they are accidentally revived, the Daleks are keen to learn their ancient secrets - especially the location of a planet known as Earth...

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
The longest story from The Daleks is also one of the best, with a surprise reappearance of the humanoid Daleks and even a mention of Yarvelling. The contrast between what the Daleks once were and what they have become is nicely done, as is the sudden mention of planet Earth, which effectively moves the strip into its final phase as the Daleks begin to increasingly turn their attentions towards the planet and its location.

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
An interesting premise is given one of the strangest treatments resulting in one of the oddest strips from the sequence. I think this is probably the poorest strips of the run, the whole idea of the Daleks being threatened from within having been done to death and, most successfully, with Duel of the Daleks.

ARTIST: Ron Turner
ISSUES: 90-95
COVER DATES: 8 October 1966 - 12 November 1966
REPRINTS: Doctor Who Classic Comics, Issue 18

The emissaries of Jevo must stop the deadly flowers of Arides from pollinating. To get there in time, they must cross the Unknown Regions. But that is where Skaro lies, and the Daleks have no interest in preserving life. When the emissaries are captured by the Daleks, only a dangerous trick offers a chance of freedom... but will it work long enough to save the universe?

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
Although it would seem to be nobody’s favourite, Emissaries of Jevo isn’t bad at all, just a little pedestrian. The concept of deadly plants had, of course, been used before and with greater success with the Amarylls, but the idea of the Jevoans tricking the Daleks and the Daleks then taking their revenge is neat, and the contrast between the two species is well characterised, even if the Jevoans are rather lacking in characterisation and the threat posed by the plants never feels particularly real or pressing.

ARTIST/WRITER: Leo Baxendale.

ISSUE: 72
COVER DATE: 6 November 1965.

A very small cameo appearance for two Daleks in Issue 72 of Wham! (6 November 1965 - one week before The Daleks’ Master Plan began its epic run on TV). This issue is a Fireworks Special, and teaches children the fun they can have with potentially lethal explosives.

In case you can’t see one of the Daleks even when you squint at the cover here (the other one is in the crowd of children almost in the centre of the cover), click on the image to enlarge the section with that Dalek on it.

Interestingly, the Dalek is being pursued and shot at by a helicopter which says U.N.C.L.E. on the side of it. Is this some comment on the respective fortunes of the two shows?

As with most annuals, the actual year of publication was the year before the cover date. This volume contained five strips featuring the Daleks, and also starred the Mechanoids.

In a rare piece of continuity with the television series, we also see the Mechanoids’ city on Mechanus and encounter the Fungoids, with their aversion to light, though their shape has changed somewhat from their one and only television appearance.

ARTISTS/WRITERS: Richard Jennings, John Wood, A.B. Cornwell, Wiggins.

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Threatened by a mechanical planet, Earth rearms the Daleks who, after repelling the threat, vow to once more conquer Earth.

Which is no more than you would expect of them, really.

Brit is forced by two stowaways to land on Skaro. The men intend to steal the Daleks’ treasure, which is protected by a hideous Dredly monster. No really...

Unispace agent Meric investigates an underwater city full of Dalek copies of Earth leaders.

To tie in with the launch of the first Amicus film Doctor Who and the Daleks in 1965, Dell Comics released a        31-page comic strip adaptation of the film in 1966 under the banner Movie Classic. ‘Everywhere! Watching and waiting... The incredible robots, the Daleks!!’ announced the cover. Well, indeed.

Again, actually released in 1966 in time for Christmas that year, the Dalek Outer Space Book is most notable for seeing the appearance of Sara Kingdom, who featured in Doctor Who’s The Daleks’ Master Plan. She has the strength of ten men. Apparently.

ARTISTS: Richard Jennings, John Wood, Leslie Waller, Art Sanson.
WRITER: Terry Nation.

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The Daleks kidnap two Earth astronauts and send them on a quest for a mineral hidden in the caves of Skaro which will enhance their firepower.

Sara Kingdom rescues a top scientist from a Dalek slave colony. His knowledge of metallurgy makes him a valuable asset to the Daleks.

Jeff Stone (remember him?) discovers the wreck of a Dalek submarine.

But, of course, as Daleks can travel underwater without harm anyway (as shown in The Dalek Invasion of Earth), the likelihood of them wasting resources to develop a submarine is about as likely as sparrows developing an aeroplane.

The Dalek Emperor orders that a gigantic, static casing should be built for him in the heart of the Dalek city after one Dalek dares to criticise him.

The Daleks place a device in Earth’s orbit that allows them to read human minds.

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
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ARTIST: John Canning.
WRITER: Roger Noel Cook

ISSUES: 792 - 795.
COVER DATES: 18 February 1967 - 11 March 1967.
REPRINTS: Doctor Who Classic Comics Issue 11.

The Doctor infiltrates the Dalek base in a casing he has built himself, determined to destroy the Daleks. This he does by ordering the garrison to self-destruct. Ruthless, isn’t he?

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
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ARTIST: John Canning.
WRITER: Roger Noel Cook

ISSUES: 803 - 806.
COVER DATES: 6 May 1967 - 27 May 1967.
REPRINTS: Doctor Who Classic Comics Issue 20.

The Doctor derails a super-train carrying a giant exterminator gun that the Daleks plan to use against the Earth.

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
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ARTIST: Patrick Williams
WRITER: Roger Noel Cook

The Doctor, John and Gillian defeat a squad of Daleks by throwing rocks at them. I kid you not. Perhaps it should have been called Attack on the Daleks instead.

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
Not the most auspicious end to the Daleks’ comic strip career in the 1960s, which had seen the Daleks enjoy their first peak of popularity in every medium.

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Countdown, launched on the week ending 20 February 1971, is regarded as the last of the really lavish children’s titles.

Doctor Who joined its pages at its inception, with the Daleks finally appearing in the strip the following year, when the publication had become Countdown for TV Action!.

ARTIST: Gerry Haylock.
WRITER: Dennis Hooper.

ISSUES: 47 - 54.
COVER DATES: 8 January 1972 - 26 February 1972.
REPRINTS: Doctor Who Classic Comics Issue 5.

The Daleks hijack an atomic submarine, then stage an attack on Sydney, planning to convert the survivors into Daleks. As you can see to the side here, their plan gets surprisingly advanced.

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
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ARTIST: Gerry Haylock.
WRITER: Dennis Hooper.

ISSUES: 55 - 56 (Countdown), 57 - 58 (TV Action in Countdown), 59 - 62 (TV Action + Countdown).
COVER DATES: 4 March 1972 - 22 April 1972.
REPRINTS: Doctor Who Classic Comics Issue 6.

Using a Time Vector Generator, the Daleks divert the TARDIS to Skaro, intent on turning the Doctor into a Dalek. The Doctor escapes, but is forced to fight for his life in the jungle.

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
It was part way through this strip, which follows on directly from the previous story and which sees a return to the Daleks’ metal city on Skaro complete with authentic architecture, that Countdown changed its name, with the strip thereafter presented largely in black and white.

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On the week ending 1 September 1973, the Doctor Who comic strip returned to the pages of what might be considered its ancestral home: TV Comic. This was following the merger with TV Action in August 1973 (mergers being a regular feature of comics in the 1970s).

Doctor Who rejoined the publication with Issue 1133.

The Daleks returned the following year in Issue 1155...

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ARTIST: Steve Parkhouse
WRITER: Geoff Rowley

ISSUE: 161 (UK Edition)
COVER DATE: None given (1975)

The Doctor, Hairy and Squarer land aboard a space ark where geniuses (including all the previous Doctors) are held in suspended animation. Unfortunately the Doctor is attacked by a self-knitting scarf, and Hairy’s attempts to save him don’t go to plan. Or something.

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
The Daleks only make a cameo appearance in three frames of the five page strip, two of which are reprinted above. It is interesting to see the name Steve Parkhouse attached to the strip. He would later write some of the best and most ambitious comic strips for Doctor Who Magazine.

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Doubtless encouraged by a Dalek story on television every year between 1972 and 1975, World Distributors’ resurrected the Dalek annual in the late 1970s. Just as the television Daleks went quiet for four years. This can hardly have helped sales.

As with most annuals, the cover date is a year in advance of the actual year of release.

ARTIST/WRITER: Edgar Hodges.

The Daleks melt the polar ice caps intent on threatening the world’s cities with disastrous flooding. It seems a slightly tame plan for Daleks, don’t you think, though perhaps it was intended as an extremely prescient warning about global warming.

ARTIST: Leo Baxendale
WRITER: Leo Baxendale
ISSUE: Not available (1976)

Ah, the sort of comedy that made Crackerjack (“Crackerjack!!!”) seem sophisticated by comparison.

Under no circumstances should this strip be confused with the same titled Doctor Poo that appeared in Viz during the 1990s. That strip isn’t quite so innocent in its humour...

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ARTIST: Unknown
WRITER: Uknown

ISSUE: 26 November 1977

This one page spoof, featuring Doctor Boo and his lovely assistant Squeelia, has the Doctor accidentally unleashing Saturnian sobbing gas. When the Daleks (here renamed Wahleks) start crying they also start to rust, so the Doctor finishes them off with rust remover. Hysterical. Apparently.

ARTIST: Gerry Haylock
WRITER: Dick O’Neil
ISSUE: TV Comic Winter Special 1977

The TV Comic Winter Special 1977 reprinted the Third Doctor story The Threat from Beneath, with Baker’s likeness (and I use the word loosely) painted over Pertwee’s features. The credits are naturally the same as its previous outing:

Click here to see a sample page from this strip.

With both the 1977 and 1978 Annuals making up their comic strip quota with reprints of the Dalek Chronicles strips from TV21, it was left to the final 1979 annual to provide some original    material...

ARTIST/WRITER: Walter Howarth.

In the Pacific Ocean, Japanese fishermen find scientists hideously mutilated by the Daleks and turned into savage psychopaths.

ARTISTS: Paul Neary & David Lloyd
WRITER: Steve Moore
ISSUES: 1 - 4
COVER DATES: 17 October 1979 - 7 November 1979
REPRINTS: Doctor Who Classic Comics Issues 23 & 24. Also reprinted in colour in the first issue of the US Marvel publication Doctor Who, with colour (or color if you prefer to keep American) by Andy Yanchus. Cover and panel shown below.

On the planet Anhaut, movie studio owner Glax unwittingly resurrects the Daleks who were defeated 800 years previously. The actor playing the role of the man who defeated them and a former Dalek agent thwart the Dalek invasion.

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
The Dalek Annuals aside, this strip, which was a backup strip in the first four issues of Doctor Who Weekly, was the first time the Daleks had appeared in a comic strip without the Doctor since the days of TV Century 21 in 1966.

ARTISTS: Steve Dillon, David Lloyd
WRITER: Steve Moore
ISSUES: 44 - 46
COVER DATES: September 1980 - November 1980
REPRINTS: This strip was reprinted in the Marvel comic Captain Britain (Issues 9 - 11, September - November 1985), then in the ‘graphic novel’ Abslom Daak Dalek Killer, released by Marvel in 1990. The cover and contents are shown at the bottom of this page.

Daak and Salander recruit Harma the Ice Warrior and Daak’s old rival Mercurius. They go on to defeat a Dalek space commando unit.

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
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ARTIST: Ian Jackson
WRITER: Mark Rodgers
ISSUE: 24
COVER DATE: 23 March - 3 April 1987.

The Daleks, renamed Butcher-leks and wearing the traditional hat and apron of a butcher, perhaps in a bid to avoid BBC copyright lawyers, put in an appearance in “funny” comic Oink! where every major character appears to be a pig. That in itself isn’t much of a selling point for the apparently controversial comic, though Colin Baker’s Doctor works surprisingly well with a porcine makeover. So to the plot...

The Daleks... er, sorry, I mean the Butcher-leks, invade Earth but are repelled by Earth  humour, represented by the latest ‘hilarious’ issue of Oink! I kid you not...

Oink! was a British comic for children published from 3 May 1986 until 22 October 1988. It set out to be deliberately anarchic, reminiscent of Viz but for children.

WRITER/ARTIST: Shaky Kane (aka Michael Coulthard)
ISSUES: Unknown
COVER DATES: Unknown
REPRINTS: Reprinted in Deadline USA by Dark Horse comics, and also cCollected in Shaky Kane’s A-Men by Wishbone Studios, Summer 2002

Surely one of the strangest cameos ever for the Daleks, as they are worn as cybernetic enhancing hats!

SCRIPT: Unknown
ART: Unknown

ISSUE: 14
COVER DATE: November 1988

A brief, one-panel appearance for a Dalek outside the Baxter Building, New York home of the Fantastic Four.

SCRIPT: Unknown
ART: Unknown

ISSUE: 8
COVER DATE: January 1989

The Doctor is fleeing from assorted monsters, including Daleks, Cybermen and Ice Warriors when he realises he has dropped the TARDIS key. Going through his pockets, he finds a copy of Doctor Who Magazine, but it turns out to belong to the monsters who want it back. To make amends, he can buy his own copy in future.

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
Hardly a subtle advertisement, but one that - if this strip was at all representative - surely wouldn’t help the magazine to sell on the strength of its comic strip!
 

ARTIST: Lee Sullivan.
WRITER: Paul Cornell.

ISSUES: 197 - 202.
COVER DATES: 17 March 1993 - 4 August 1993.

The Daleks plan to use Abslom Daak, who isn’t dead after all, to destroy the Doctor, who has abducted Davros from his trial on Skaro. The Doctor, however, is instead forced into helping the Daleks recover Davros, who has set up base on Spiridon reviving the vast frozen army held there.

ALTERED VISTAS SAYS:
Can’t you just tell that 1993 was anniversary year? The epic Emperor of the Daleks is both a direct sequel to Nemesis of the Daleks, again featuring Abslom Daak, and introducing Davros in his comic strip debut, and a revision and negation of that story’s events. I can only guess that Paul Cornell likes it as little as I do. You can read a fuller synopsis and find out how this story fits into the chronology of Doctor Who comic strips by clicking here.

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