The Planet of the Daleks (comic story)

The Planet of the Daleks
Doctor:	Third Doctor
Companion(s):	"Finney"
Main enemy:	Daleks
Main setting:	Skaro
Key crew
Publisher:	Polystyle
Writer:	Dennis Hooper
Artist:	Gerry Haylock
Release details
Number of parts:	8
Printed in:	TV Action 55-62
Release date:	4 March - 22 April 1972
Reprinted in:	DWCC 6
Format:	Comic
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The Planet of the Daleks was a Third Doctor comic story published in TV Action.

Summary

A burglar, Finney, attempts to steal the TARDIS. Accidentally causing a fire, the Doctor use the Ship to escape with Finney. The TARDIS is drawn to the Dalek's home planet by their time vector machine where the Doctor is apparently transformed into a humanoid Dalek. However, the Doctor is in fact unharmed and attempts to destroy the Daleks by piloting the TARDIS into a star. When the attempt fails, the Doctor and Finney escape into the wilderness of the Dalek's home world but find themselves trapped between the creatures and a giant prehistoric beast.

Characters

• Third Doctor
• "Finney"

Worldbuilding

• The Daleks have dinosaur-like creatures on the planet of their base-of-operations.
• The Doctor believes that plunging the TARDIS into the heart of a sun will kill everyone onboard.

Notes

• The story never makes explicit which planet features as the Daleks' base-of-operations. The implication of previous stories is Skaro, but the living jungle vegetation stands at odds with its depiction in TV: The Daleks and TV: The Evil of the Daleks. The planet's biome, if not for the presence of dinosaurs, resembles that of Mechanus, Kembel and Mira.
• Picking up right after the events of *Sub Zero, the final issue of which was released the previous week, The Planet of the Daleks creates a very rare instance of one Dalek story immediately following another one. The TV series later did something similar with Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks in 1973.
• From Issue 59, the strip is extended to three pages. The first appears on the front cover in colour, with the second and third in black-and-white.

Original print details

(Publication with page count and closing captions)

• TVA 55 (2 pages) More Next Week!
• TVA 56 (2 pages) More next week!
• TVA 57 (2 pages) More Next Week!
• TVA 58 (2 pages) Will Dr. Who join with the Daleks to destroy Earth? Find out in Next Week's Countdown!
• TVA 59 (3 pages) Will Dr. Who survive the searing heat of the Sun? Find out in next week's exciting adventure!
• TVA 60 (3 pages) Discover if Dr. Who has a chance for survival in next week's TV ACTION!
• TVA 61 (3 pages) Can Dr. Who stem the Dalek advance with a Dinosaur charge? See TV ACTION next week!
• TVA 62 (3 pages) Another new Dr. Who Story next week!

Continuity

• The Daleks seek revenge after the Doctor destroyed their Earth invasion force from Antarctica. (COMIC: *Sub Zero)
• The Daleks plot to turn the Doctor into a humanoid Dalek. The methods employed to transform the Doctor mimic those employed during their efforts to discover the Dalek factor (TV: The Evil of the Daleks) and their Antarctic-based invasion. (COMIC: *Sub Zero)

External links

• The Planet of the Daleks at the Doctor Who Reference Guide