Nemesis of the Daleks (comic story)

Nemesis of the Daleks
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Daak
Main enemy:	Emperor Dalek
Main setting:	Hell, the 26th century
Key crew
Publisher:	Marvel Comics
Editor:	Richard Starkings
Writer:	Richard Starkings (as Richard Alan) John Tomlinson (as Steve Alan)
Artist:	Lee Sullivan
Letterer:	Zed
Release details
Number of parts:	4
Printed in:	DWM 152-155
Release date:	10 August - 9 November 1989
Reprinted in:	Nemesis of the Daleks, Daleks: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection
Format:	Comic - 4 parts
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Nemesis of the Daleks was a Seventh Doctor comic published in Doctor Who Magazine.

Summary

The Doctor materialises on the planet Hell, which has been conquered by the Daleks. Abslom Daak and his fellow mercenaries have been shot down over the planet, and only Daak has survived. He and the Doctor join forces to find out what the Daleks are doing here, and they find that the native Helkans have been put to work mining the poisonous helkogen gas from beneath the surface of the planet. The Doctor, Daak and a party of Helkans hijack a shuttle and head for the Death Wheel the Daleks are constructing in orbit, but they fail to transmit the proper security codes and are captured. Daak escapes, and discovers that the Daleks are building a genocide machine with which they will be able to gas entire planets. Daak rescues the Doctor and the Helkans, and while fleeing, they locate the Death Wheel's reactor core. Daak sends the Doctor and the Helkans to safety while he pilots a Dalek anti-gravity disc into the reactor, destroying it, blowing up the Death Wheel, and saving the planet at the cost of his own life.

Plot

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Characters

• Seventh Doctor
• Abslom Daak
• The Daleks
• Emperor Dalek
• Ogrons

References

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Notes

• Richard Alan and Steve Alan were the pen-names used by Richard Starkings and John Tomlinson.
• The design of the Dalek Emperor was a combination of the Imperial Emperor from Remembrance of the Daleks and the Gold Emperor from The Dalek Chronicles. [1]
• Harma is referred to as "Haama" in "Part Two".
• An image of Abslom Daak taken from this story is reused to depict him in the television story Time Heist.
• A Dalek with a claw extension similar to that designed for NOTVALID: Dr. Who and the Daleks features in a panel set on the Dalek Death Wheel.

Continuity

• Many of this story's elements, including Abslom Daak, the Star Tigers, planet Hell and more, would go on to be revisited in COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!.
• The Doctor believes the the Dalek Emperor to Davros. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) Later, however, he realizes this assessment to be incorrect. (COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!)
• The Doctor is still aiming for Maruthea. (COMIC: Echoes of the Mogor!, Time and Tide, Invaders from Gantac!) He will finally reach Maruthea in COMIC: Party Animals.
• The Daleks employ Ogrons as a slave labour force. (TV: Day of the Daleks)

External links

• Nemesis of the Daleks at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer - Synopses of all the Abslom Daak comics
• NZDWFC - Guide to the Abslom Daak comics with synopses
• Altered Vistas - Synopses of the Seventh Doctor Comics