Nemesis of the Daleks (comic story)

Nemesis of the Daleks was a Seventh Doctor comic published in Doctor Who Magazine.

Summary
The Doctor materialises on the planet Hell, which has been conquered by the Daleks. Abslom Daak and his fellow mercenaries have been shot down over the planet, and only Daak has survived. He and the Doctor join forces to find out what the Daleks are doing here, and they find that the native Helkans have been put to work mining the poisonous helkogen gas from beneath the surface of the planet. The Doctor, Daak and a party of Helkans hijack a shuttle and head for the Death Wheel the Daleks are constructing in orbit, but they fail to transmit the proper security codes and are captured. Daak escapes, and discovers that the Daleks are building a genocide machine with which they will be able to gas entire planets. Daak rescues the Doctor and the Helkans, and while fleeing, they locate the Death Wheel's reactor core. Daak sends the Doctor and the Helkans to safety while he pilots a Dalek anti-gravity disc into the reactor, destroying it, blowing up the Death Wheel, and saving the planet at the cost of his own life.

Plot
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Characters

 * Seventh Doctor
 * Abslom Daak
 * The Daleks
 * Emperor Dalek
 * Ogrons

Continuity

 * Many of this story's elements, including Abslom Daak, the Star Tigers, planet Hell and more, would go on to be revisited in COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!.
 * The Doctor recognises the Dalek Emperor as Davros, placing this story after the events of TV: Remembrance of the Daleks, where Davros was shown to have become the Emperor and surrendered even more of his humanoid form. The "Emperor", however, does not recognise the name, and the Doctor concludes that he has lost even more of his former humanity. A similar idea of Davros losing himself to his Emperor persona would later be explored in AUDIO: Terror Firma. In contrast, however, COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks! attempted to retcon the events of this story by purporting that the Doctor had been wrong, and that the Emperor in this story was the Golden Emperor at a point prior to Davros's takeover of Skaro.
 * The Doctor is still aiming for Maruthea, as previously established in COMIC: Echoes of the Mogor!, COMIC: Time and Tide and COMIC: Invaders from Gantac!. He will finally reach Maruthea in COMIC: Party Animals.
 * The Daleks employ Ogrons as a slave labour force, as previously shown in TV: Day of the Daleks.
 * An image of Abslom Daak taken from this story is reused to depict him in the television story TV: Time Heist.
 * A Dalek with a claw extension similar to that designed for TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks features in a panel set on the Dalek Death Wheel.