The Dalek Master

Being quite a prolific artist, Ron Turner’s work covered several decades. While I enjoy a lot of his earlier strips and artwork, to most people it is his stylised and cinematic depictions of the Daleks that he is probably best known, and most of his later works still involved those bad lads from Skaro.

Although the TV21 Dalek strip had ended in 1967, the so called Dalek Chronicles appeared in a bound volume produced by Marvel in 1995 and Ron was commissioned to do the cover.

Early in 1997, he drew a full colour six-part Dalek strip for Doctor Who Magazine called Return of the Elders. Another story, Deadline to Doomsday was to follow. Unfortunately only two pages were produced.

Ron died on 19 December 1998

More of Ron’s later work appeared posthumously as posters in the two of the Dalekmania calendars.

Without doubt, Ron Turner’s dramatic style and tremendous imagination made him one of Britain’s finest comic artists. A talent that is sadly missed.