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The Monstrons land on Skaro, intent on either enslaving or destroying the Daleks with their Engibrain robots. They set up base in an extinct volcano…

Art by Richard Jennings

Part One

The Monstrons land and built a base inside an extinct volcano. However, the Daleks detect movement in the sector and send out a patrol…

Illustration from the original Dalek Chronicles

Part Two

The Dalek patrol is captured by the Monstrons and frozen inside a block of ice. A second patrol is destroyed by a force field.

Part Three

The Monstrons attack the Dalek city with anti-visibility thrusters, driving the Daleks beneath ground. They order the Engibrains to enter and destroy the city.

Part Four

The Engibrains enter and devastate the city. The Emperor is apparently destroyed when the ceiling collapses on top of him. Finally, the Monstrons seal the city in liquid metal.

Part Five

With the city sealed, the Monstrons return to their base. However, Daleks still survive beneath the ground, and they discover that the Emperor has fallen through into an old watercourse. However, before they can rescue him, he is attacked by a giant electric eel.

Part Six

The Daleks rescue the Emperor, then use the eel to repower themselves. Meanwhile, aboard the Monstron ship, the Dalek captive raises the temperature of its casing to melt the ice…

Part Seven

The Dalek aboard the Monstron ship breaks free, but is send plunging down into the volcano by the Monstrons. As the Emperor and his Daleks emerge from the ruined city by the Lake of Mutations, the Dalek inside the volcano uses its gun to trigger a volcanic eruption, destroying the Monstrons and their Engibrains.

The Lake of Mutations – CGI render from the Altered Vistas production of Menace of the Monstrons.

• This story was originally published in issues 40-46 of TV Century 21.
• The Monstrons plans are extremely inconsistent, as they first plan to send back the captured Dalek with an Engibrain hidden inside, then plan to enslave the Daleks, then set out to destroy them.
• The Lake of Mutations puts in its first appearance in the strip.
• This strip is also known by the title Attack of the Monstrons and, together with The Archives of Phryne, as The Quest (Dalek Annual 1977).
• Altered Vistas CGI adaptation of The Menace of the Monstrons was released in September 2005 and is available from their site: www.alteredvistas.co.uk.