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|image = City otd.jpg | |image = City otd.jpg | ||
|series = [[Dalek annual]]s | |series = [[Dalek annual]]s | ||
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|companions = | |companions = | ||
|main character = [[Jeff Stone]] | |main character = [[Jeff Stone]] | ||
|enemy = | |enemy = [[Dalek Emperor]] | ||
|setting = [[Skaro]], [[2400]] | |setting = [[Skaro]], [[2400]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = | ||
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|colourist = | |colourist = | ||
|letterer = | |letterer = | ||
| | |anthology = The Dalek Book | ||
|release date | |release date= 30 June 1964 | ||
|publisher = Souvenir Press | |publisher = Souvenir Press | ||
|format = full-colour, 6 pages plus fold-out cutaway, "[[Anatomy of a Dalek]]" | |format = full-colour, 6 pages plus fold-out cutaway, "[[Anatomy of a Dalek]]" | ||
|epcount = 1 | |||
|prev = The Secret of the Mountain (short story) | |prev = The Secret of the Mountain (short story) | ||
|next = The Humanoids (comic story) | |next = The Humanoids (comic story) | ||
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'''''City of the Daleks''''' was a full-colour, painted comic story that detailed [[Jeff Stone]]'s reconnaissance mission to [[Skaro]]. Though short on plot, it afforded an incredibly rich view of [[Dalek]] society, culture and technology. Written when ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'' was the only televised story of which the public were aware, it offered the first in-depth exploration of the Dalek capital city. | '''''City of the Daleks''''' was a full-colour, painted comic story that detailed [[Jeff Stone]]'s reconnaissance mission to [[Skaro]]. Though short on plot, it afforded an incredibly rich view of [[Dalek]] society, culture and technology. Written when ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'' was the only televised story of which the public were aware, it offered the first in-depth exploration of the Dalek capital city. | ||
Despite the fact that almost every panel contained new information about the Daleks, few of those innovations were carried forward in the Dalek mythos. This does, however, feature the debut of the [[Dalek lie detector]], which would eventually plague [[Romana II]] in ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]]''. | Despite the fact that almost every panel contained new information about the Daleks, few of those innovations were carried forward in the Dalek mythos. This does, however, feature the debut of the [[Dalek lie detector]], which would eventually plague [[Romana II]] in ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]''. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
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* [[Dalek]]s | * [[Dalek]]s | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* The city is awash with lifts that work via pressurised gas — very similar to the kind of technology employed by the [[Silurian]] tribe in ''[[The Hungry Earth (TV story)|The Hungry Earth]]''. | |||
* The city is awash with lifts that work via pressurised gas — very similar to the kind of technology employed by the [[Silurian]] tribe in ''[[The Hungry Earth]]'' | |||
* The city uses [[nuclear power plant]]s. | * The city uses [[nuclear power plant]]s. | ||
* Daleks require great amounts of vegetative matter. When mature, the plants are pulverised and turned into a gas form that Daleks then absorb through an intake valve. In essence, the story claims that Daleks are vegetarians. | * Daleks require great amounts of vegetative matter. When mature, the plants are pulverised and turned into a gas form that Daleks then absorb through an intake valve. In essence, the story claims that Daleks are vegetarians. | ||
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* Stone eventually makes it to the [[Emperor Dalek]]'s quarters. There, he discovers the Emperor taking his regular constitutional of a burst of [[revitalising ray]]s. | * Stone eventually makes it to the [[Emperor Dalek]]'s quarters. There, he discovers the Emperor taking his regular constitutional of a burst of [[revitalising ray]]s. | ||
* Quite separate from the "command and control" area of the city is a domed building dedicated to Dalek sciences and culture. There, Stone learns that [[Albert Einstein]] based his theories on "Dalek [[cosmology]]", that the Dalek Emperor wrote [[William Shakespeare]]'s body of work, and that Daleks invented the [[Wright Flyer]]. He also sees how Daleks can remove the ego from [[human]]s with their [[schizoid accelerator]] and insert a [[Skaro mesmeristor]] into their [[brain]]s so as to achieve complete control of them. | * Quite separate from the "command and control" area of the city is a domed building dedicated to Dalek sciences and culture. There, Stone learns that [[Albert Einstein]] based his theories on "Dalek [[cosmology]]", that the Dalek Emperor wrote [[William Shakespeare]]'s body of work, and that Daleks invented the [[Wright Flyer]]. He also sees how Daleks can remove the ego from [[human]]s with their [[schizoid accelerator]] and insert a [[Skaro mesmeristor]] into their [[brain]]s so as to achieve complete control of them. | ||
* Stone finds a booklet in this part of the city called ''[[Anatomy of the Dalek]]'' | * Stone finds a booklet in this part of the city called ''[[Anatomy of the Dalek]]''. | ||
* Taking one of the lifts deep into the bowels of the city, Stone discovers a workshop where Daleks are working on a plan to house Daleks in fake [[asteroid]]s so as to orbit the Solar System undetected. He also found finds Daleks using [[Dalek lie detector|a machine]] to extract the truth from a Dalek — the truth that he has seen Jeff Stone lurking around the Dalek city. | * Taking one of the lifts deep into the bowels of the city, Stone discovers a workshop where Daleks are working on a plan to house Daleks in fake [[asteroid]]s so as to orbit the Solar System undetected. He also found finds Daleks using [[Dalek lie detector|a machine]] to extract the truth from a Dalek — the truth that he has seen Jeff Stone lurking around the Dalek city. | ||
* Lastly, Stone finds exhibits in the Museum Stores: from [[Uranus]], a [[fossil]] of an ancient [[Uranian bird man]], and the [[Super Man]] of [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]], a race which left the Skaro [[star system]] in the pre-Dalek age. | * Lastly, Stone finds exhibits in the Museum Stores: from [[Uranus]], a [[fossil]] of an ancient [[Uranian bird man]], and the [[Super Man]] of [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]], a race which left the Skaro [[star system]] in the pre-Dalek age. | ||
== Notes == | |||
''to be added'' | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* The [[Second Doctor]] would later encounter the [[Dalek Emperor]] on Skaro. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'') | * The [[Second Doctor]] would later encounter the [[Dalek Emperor]] on Skaro. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'') | ||
* [[Jeff Stone]] doesn't find [[Dalek]] [[laughter]] to be a "pleasant sound". This sentiment would later be echoed by [[Team TARDIS]] when they heard [[Dalek (Resolution)|one Reconnaissance Dalek]] chuckling. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resolution (TV story)|Resolution]]'') | |||
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