The Dalek Chronicles ( comic story ) The Daleks ( retroactively re - named The Dalek Chronicles ) was a single - paged comic strip that portrayed a history of the Dalek s . It lasted one hundred and four episodes . There were no appearances by the Doctor . History . The episodes of the Dalek comic strip first appeared in the " TV Century 21 " ( " TV21 " for short ) comics magazine between 1965 and 1967 . The Dalek comic strip was reprinted many times in different forms by " Doctor Who Magazine " ( in this form it was sometimes known as " The Dalek Tapes " ) before appearing in 1994 as graphic novel form from Marvel Comics , as a single volume , unedited and in full colour , priced at £3 . 99 ( UK ) . Authorship . Though the strips featured the credit " by Terry Nation " , the scripts were written largely or entirely by David Whitaker . The editor of " TV21 " said that he had a heavy hand in the writing of the " Genesis of Evil " story . At different times , Richard Jennings , Eric Eden and Ron Turner did the art duties . Ron Turner produced the artwork for the series . Storyline . The strip did not " soften " the nature of the Daleks in any way and made them just as evil ( if not more so ) than in the television stories . Interestingly , although the strip described the Thal s , they never appeared in the comic . Stories shifted from sympathetic humanoid protagonists ( no human s appeared until the last story , in which the Daleks discover Earth ) to the Emperor Dalek , who served as the hero ( of sorts ) of most of the stories . The strip detailed the history of the Dalek s from their creation on Skaro , to their discovery of space flight , their conquests , their war with the Mechanoid s , tying into " The Chase " . Given that the strips concluded with the Daleks ' discovery of Earth , that would mean the whole comic was , in effect , a prelude to " The Dalek Invasion of Earth " . " The Dalek Chronicles " gave an account of the creation of the Daleks very different from " Genesis of the Daleks " and a somewhat different account recounted , but not seen in " The Daleks " . The " TV 21 " strips portrayed humanoid Dalek s as diminutive blue men with large heads , similar in appearance to " Dan Dare " s Mekon and generally opposed to the Thals ( though at least one Dalek wanted peace ) . According to the comic , these humanoid Daleks had created war machines and neutron bomb s . The bombs were accidentally detonated by a meteorite fall . The explosion that followed created mutant Daleks who would use the war machines as their shells . For more information on this from a " Doctor Who " universe perspective , see Creation of the Daleks and Humanoid Dalek s . Later stories in the Dalek comic told of the expansion of the Dalek Empire and a lengthy war against the Mechanoid s and other enemies . In the last published comic in this series , the Daleks learned the location of Earth , which they proposed to invade . Although much of the material in these strips directly contradicted what was shown on television later , some concepts , such as flying Daleks , Daleks acquiring human characteristics and turning against their masters and the design of the Dalek Emperor did show up later on in the programme . The last story , " The Road to Conflict " , concerned the Daleks ' first encounters with humans and their discovery of the tempting planet Earth . A followup story , " Return of the Elders " , ran in " Doctor Who Magazine " 249 - 254 , written by John Lawrence , with art by Ron Turner . Stories by " TV Century 21 " issue . Notes . Although there was no individual titles given to the stories , there is a general consensus on " episode titles " proposed by John Ainsworth ( based on his research and discussions with those involved in the original strips ) , which were accepted for use by " Doctor Who Magazine " and other sources . Some earlier publications may refer to " stories " by differing titles . On some occasions , the title of the individual " story " were taken from the preceding issue ' s " coming next time " closing caption . Title graphics . The title image occupied the first panel on the page for the first 75 issues . From issue 76 onward the title ran along the length of the page above the comic . Reprint title graphics . The first set of reprints from World Distributors in the years 1976 and 1977 only used a series title graphic on the first page . On subsequent pages , as with most reprints of the series , both the title and the news box were replaced with narration . Where divided into parts , only the first part ' s title box carried the series title " The Daleks " . The Amazing World of Doctor Who ' s title box ( not shown ) read " The Daleks in A New Start " . From 1980 to 1994 , Marvel UK reprinted the series . The first block of reprints went uninterrupted from " Doctor Who Magazine " Issues 30 - 42 and used the title " The Dalek Tapes " . Those included the standard elements of the tape graphic and the series title , however sizing , placement , and the presence of the other elements varied . Tape number didn ' t alway receive a special font and the episode title was originally placed in the news box . When the series was revisited , it carried the second TV21 title graphic on every page of " Eve of War " . The image was resized to fill the news box as well , avoiding the need to supply any new narration . " The Archives of Phryne " only carried the graphic on the first page in the issue because it had been originally reprinted in a Dalek Annual . The third set reproduced the 1978 Dalek Annual ' s reprints of the Skardal arc in original colour and featured the same whimsical lettering in the title box . Later reprints focused on better quality reproduction of the material . The graphic novel features the comics with original TV21 title and news panels intact . External links . Altered Vistas Fan - made CGI versions of The Dalek Chronicles available worldwide .