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• The Dalek Chronicles
  • Introduction
  • Genesis of Evil
  • Power Play
  • Duel of the Daleks
  • The Amaryll Challenge
  • The Pentaray Factor
  • Plague of Death
  • The Menace of the Monstrons
  • Eve of the War
  • The Archives of Phryne
  • Rogue Planet
  • Impasse
  • The Terrorkon Harvest
  • Legacy of Yesteryear
  • Shadow of Humanity
  • The Emissaries of Jevo
  • Road to Conflict
  • Return of the Elders
  • Deadline to Doomsday
• Other Dalek Chronicles Web sites
  • Altered Vistas
  • The Dalek Chronicles

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Between January 1965 and January 1967, the new glossy children’s comic TV Century 21 published on its back page a full colour comic strip charting the rise to power of the dreaded Daleks.

Although Terry Nation’s name appears on all bar the last twenty-nine of the strips, it is highly doubtful that he had anything to do with the actual writing, which appears to have been mainly handled by David Whitaker, Doctor Who’s first story editor, with additional input from Bob Furnell, editor of TV Century 21.

Illustrated by Richard Jennings, Eric Eden and Ron Turner, the strip ran for 104 instalments before finally concluding on the eve of the Daleks’ planned attack on Earth.

It is important to note that the titles given to individual stories were later inventions, intended solely for identification purposes. Indeed, even the general title The Dalek Chronicles is a later invention, and an early series of reprints in Doctor Who Weekly refer to them as The Dalek Tapes.