Merry Christmas in the TARDIS

 

Back on the old Observation Deck, I once had something to say about Doctor Who comics and that got me thinking about the place it all started, TV Comic. Except it got a bit twisted and I've never had all the information available, so it went on a back burner and just fermented in the drafts.

Daleks sell out?

 

Not bad for cyborgs approaching their Sixtieth birthday! In the dying hours of the old Deck, I mentioned that Panini's Doctor Who Magazine had sneakily released a bookazine comic collection, The Daleks. This assembles a remastered version of 104 pages of Sixties strips from the legendary TV Century 21. 

Written variously by Alan Fennell, David Whittaker, Angus Allan and Terry Nation, it sported art by Richard Jennings, Eric Eden and Ron Turner. The origins of the Daleks on Skaro were explored in the wake of the war on Skaro and expanded into a wider galaxy. 

The comic Daleks gave us an Emperor with a bubble-head and flying platforms, along with a distinctive typeface that shouted Dalek murder machine. 

Now, the strips have been collected by DWM before, back in the Marvel days, but The Dalek Chronicles mag can change hands for a couple of hundred quid. But the new bookazine has sold out on official mail order sources and is itself selling on eBay for three-times the price. That's some sharp inflation. Still cheaper than Chronicles though.