Hi sorry not to have been touch since earlier in the year, but am still an avid reader of your blog.
Treated myself to the recently reissued glossy collection of TV21 Dalek stories.
It follows the usual line that the stories were leading up to the 22nd Century invasion of Earth from Dr Who.
As I mentioned, I tried my hand at the outline of a plot for the Daleks to invade the Earth of 2068 in the TV21 Universe.
I have not go very far with it. Fanderson published a special TV21 edition a while back with a story by Stephen Baxter where the Astrans invade Earth. It ends with a reference to the Daleks.
I have found a 1965 cover featuring the Daleks in which the planet Oric appeals to the World President for help against a possible Dalek invasion.
The strip mentions the Daleks planning to invade Oric but no more is heard of this plotline.
I wonder if Alan Fennell did after all plan for his Daleks to invade his 21c Earth. Perhaps he changed his mind because this was too close to the TV and Film Dr Who invasion.
Such a shame.
Wishing you a safer and better 2021,
Ralph Morton
I'm not sure if the new volume includes it, but Ron Turner did illustrate a follow-up story to the Dalek Chronicles for Dr. Who magazine. I have found scans of 8 pages from this on the internet, not sure if there are more, as sadly he died before the strip was concluded.
ReplyDeleteRM, can't say whether The Daleks invaded Oric or not, but you can see the follow up adventure on Crivens if you type 'The Daleks Are Coming' into my blog's search box. The two pages of the then unfinished strip are also there (unlettered), but the strip was concluded by another artist around three years or so ago and published in an issue of Vworp Vworp!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info guys. Hopefully Ralph will read this.
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