Dalek (Dennis the Menace in Balloonatics)

When a hot air balloon featuring several celebrities was shot down over Beanotown, a wind-up Dalek was among those who decided to explore the town.

After the hot air balloon was repaired, the Dalek boarded it and left Beanotown. (COMIC: Dennis the Menace in Balloonatics)

Behind the scenes

Dennis the Menace in Balloonatics opened and closed issue 1 of BeanoMax. The "meta" of the story was that it explained why numerous celebrities and pop-culture figures would be appear throughout the rest of the issue.

This creates somewhat of a contentious discrepancy with The Invasion of Bash Street, one of the comics printed in the issue. In the story, a Bronze Dalek wanders into Bash Street School and has an encounter with "The Bash Street Kids." At the end of the comic, after the Dalek has been incapacitated by the children, the Tenth Doctor appears and takes the defeated Dalek away in the TARDIS.

It is thus possible read that the Dalek in Dennis the Menace in Balloonatics is the same Dalek in The Invasion of Bash Street. However, two discrepancies, unintended or not, make this unlikely. Firstly, the Dalek in Balloonatics is white with red Sense globes and a large wind-up key emerging from its back, while the Dalek in Bash Street appears to be a normal Bronze Dalek. Secondly, while the Bronze Dalek in Bash Street is defeated and taken away by the Doctor, the wind-up Dalek is seen racing back to the hot-air balloon at the end of the issue.