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Looks good to me! And, regarding the similarity — indeed! In fact, if you throw in War of the Daleks’s statement that the Daleks' travel machines' designs were stolen by Davros from other scientists as detailed in the OP, all you'd need to reconcile the two accounts is to fudge the timeline a bit and either imagine all the Kaleds were blue, or that all the blue humanoids in the comics weren't blue, for the two stories to coexist.

After all, the Dalek Prime in Genesis of Evil only says that it climbed into a Dalek War Machine of its own accord. It's imaginable that it might just have climbed out of a certain bunker when it confronted Yarvelling and Zolfian, and that it just didn't want knowledge that the Daleks hadn't created themselves to get out ever again.

Although my favored option is still just War of the Daleks’s clear implication of Genesis of Evil being the natural timeline which Davros's meddling with history collapsed, all adjustments regarding what the Kaleds looked like aside.

Let's not lose track of the original topic, though — do The Dalek Tapes say anything of note about the Dalek Emperor which differs from what is said in the original comics or in the John Peel novels?

…Oh, and having recently rewatched The Dead Planet, I note that while the Thals know of the Daleks' ancestors as the Dals, the Daleks themselves, when describing their history to the Doctor, speak about "their Dalek forefathers" instead, saying that "there were two races on Skaro — the Thals, and us, the Daleks". So the name of the Dalek's humanoid forefathers isn't actually a discrepancy between Genesis of Evil and The Dead Planet at all.

…Should that make the TV story the "first mention" of the Humanoid Dalek page's infobox, I wonder?