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Though the strips featured the credit "by [[Terry Nation]]", writer [[David Whitaker]] also contributed. The editor of ''TV Century 21'' said that he had a heavy hand in the writing of the ''[[Genesis of Evil (comic story)|Genesis of Evil]]'' story, although this is unlikely.

The first reprints of the [[World Distributors (Manchester), Ltd|World Distributors]] first reprinted some ''The Daleks'' comics in [[1976 (releases)|1976]] and [[1977 (releases)|1977]] in ''[[Terry Nation's Dalek Annual 1977]]'' and ''[[Terry Nation's Dalek Annual 1978]]'' under new titles (sometimes different from those later agreed upon by ''Who'' scholars; for example, ''[[The Penta Ray Factor (comic story)|The Penta Ray Factor]]'' was instead printed as ''The Envoys of Evil''). These reprints erased the title panel and final caption-box of each comic, replacing them with new narration to give the appearance of a flowing narrative rather than a page-by-page serial. In the process, the crossover references to other ongoing ''[[TV Century 21]]'' storylines were often elided.

Issues [[DWM 33|33]] to [[DWM 42|42]] of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' presented a multi-part comic story called ''[[The Dalek Tapes (comic story)|The Dalek Tapes]]'', which was essentially a reprint of the first few ''The Daleks'' stories, although with even more numerous alterations; not only were the original caption boxes removed or reworded, but a new framing device was added (presenting the Dalek history as a series of accounts found by [[the Doctor]] on a "[[twilight]] [[world]]") and on at least one occasion, a wholly new panel of art was inserted.

It was only in [[1994 (releases)|1994]] that an effort was made by [[Marvel Comics]] to reprint the whole series, with no new material (save for a [[The Dalek Chronicles Found! (short story)|in-universe prose prelude]]). The result was a graphic novel called ''[[DWMS The Dalek Chronicles|The Dalek Chronicles]]'', whose only edit to the stories was again to remove most of the caption-boxes referencing non-DW-related elements of the ''[[TV Century 21]]'' shared universe.

In [[2020 (releases)|2020]] [[Panini Comics|Panini]] digitally restored the strips, most from the original art boards, and reprinted them as a graphic novel in bookazine format called ''[[The Daleks (graphic novel)|The Daleks]]'', now indeed including the caption-boxes.