Return of the Elders (comic story)

Return of the Elders
Featuring:	Daleks
Main setting:	Outer Solar System
Key crew
Publisher:	Marvel Comics
Editor:	Gary Gillatt
Writer:	John Lawrence
Artist:	Ron Turner
Release details
Number of parts:	6
Printed in:	DWM 249-254
Release date:	13 February - 3 July 1997
Cover date:	12 March - 30 July 1997
Format:	Comic
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Return of the Elders was a comic story published by Marvel Comics as a backup comic in Doctor Who Magazine issues 249-254. It was written by John Lawrence as a continuation of The Daleks, the final story of which, The Road to Conflict, had been published thirty years prior.

Summary

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Plot

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Characters

• Golden Emperor
• Commander Trent
• Johnson
• Kaslan
• Elders
• Black Dalek
• Red Dalek

Worldbuilding

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Notes

• Following the publication of DWMS The Dalek Chronicles, for which Ron Turner created the cover, Turner became interested in continuing the TV Century 21 series. During a lull in work, he produced a sample page for a new The Daleks story. Ron Turner's agent, John Lawrence, then submitted the page to the editor at Doctor Who Magazine.
• A follow-up to this story, Deadline to Doomsday, was left incomplete at Ron Turner's death. The two pages were published unlettered and without the horizontal title bar in DWM 276.
• The original TV Century 21 series led into Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., but this story establishes that the Dalek fleet was repelled without invading. However, Kaslan is aware that the Daleks will invade and be opposed by "another" in the future.

Continuity

• The Daleks finally discovered the location of Earth from the wreckage of the Starmaker. (COMIC: The Road to Conflict)

External links

• Dalek Links - Synopsis of Return of the Elders