Dalek Book

Status: Completed

The separate licensing of the Doctor and the Daleks, made possible largely because Dalek creator Terry Nation owned their copyright while the BBC owned the Doctor, meant that the Doctor did not appear in these books, though he is mentioned in the first one, and his granddaughter Susan Foreman does appear in the first, while his later travelling companion Sara Kingdom, who was also owned by Terry Nation, made her comic strip debut in the third. Similarly, because of the Daleks being licensed to appear here and in TV21's Dalek Chronicles, the Doctor was initially unable to encounter them either in his weekly TV Comic strip or the World Distributors Doctor Who Annuals; it was only after the Daleks' solo ventures came to an end that they would menace the Time Lord in comics...