Anatomy of the Dalek

 was a small pamphlet printed on Skaro for the use of Daleks going through "re-education training". Jeff Stone picked up a copy while sneaking around the city's so-called "Anatomy Room". It carried valuable, "Dalek-eyes-only" information about Dalek anatomy, which Stone was able to transport back to his human colleagues on Earth. (COMIC: City of the Daleks)

"Anatomy of a Dalek"
The reader is meant to believe the fold-out cross-sectional poster - on what would otherwise have been pages 54 and 55 of The Dalek Book - is the pamphlet Jeff Stone finds in the final panel of pages 53. The only problem is that the poster is called Anatomy of a Dalek, and the comic calls it Anatomy of the Dalek. So is this out-of-universe poster meant to be the same thing as the in-user pamphlet? Well, yes. But it was possible to enjoy either thing without reference to the other. You could stick the poster up on your wall and never miss a thing within the comic. You could read the comic and completely skip over the poster.

Perhaps the most important thing to remember about "Anatomy of a Dalek" is that it was the the first cross-sectional view of a Dalek that had ever been publicly released. Some of its terms were later reused on-screen or other narrative sources.

Contents:
 * 1) Eye
 * 2) Shutter
 * 3) Insulator discs
 * 4) Voice machine and translator unit
 * 5) Transmitter
 * 6) Safety valves
 * 7) Recording screens
 * 8) Computer
 * 9) Recording cells
 * 10) War Computer
 * 11) Outer casing
 * 12) Neutitron skin
 * 13) Super-sensory bands
 * 14) Blast Gun
 * 15) Dynamatic unit
 * 16) Sucker Cup
 * 17) Rod
 * 18) Control chamber
 * 19) Control column
 * 20) Gravity Compensator
 * 21) "Sense" globe
 * 22) Atractavon
 * 23) Motive ball
 * 24) Solar battery
 * 25) Flotation Tanks
 * 26) Dalek Fenders

It must be noted that Anatomy of a Dalek is at odds with depictions of the Dalek interior in other media, particularly those seen on-screen. For instance, Anatomy has the Dalek mutant contained within a yellow globe inside the base unit, while on-screen Dalek mutants as seen in TV: Resurrection of the Daleks and Dalek onward, are found with no secondary casing within the grating section immediately beneath the dome. This, combined with the complex array of machinery within the casing, also clashes with The Daleks, in which the First Doctor and his companions remove an exposed mutant from its casing, where its place is taken by Ian Chesterton. An adult human male, Ian, while finding the casing "very cramped" with "not much room" for his legs, is able to just about fit inside and operate it himself.

The Dalek Pocketbook
A similar cutsection with the same descriptions but a slightly edited version of the Dalek War Machine illustration, also titled "Anatomy of a Dalek", was included in The Dalek Pocketbook and Space Travellers Guide.

Inside a Dalek
Terry Nation's Dalek Special contains a different cutsection of a Dalek with slats. The damaged New Dalek Paradigm Supreme Dalek from TV: The Wedding of River Song appears to be based on it, especially the strainer-like piece under its dome.