City of the Daleks (comic story)

City of the Daleks was a full-colour, painted comic story that detailed Jeff Stone's adventure on Skaro. Though short on plot, it affords an incredibly rich view of Dalek society, culture and technology. Written when The Daleks was the only televised story of which the public were aware, it offered the first in-depth exploration of the Dalek capital city. Many of its concepts about Dalek culture are highly unusual from the perspective of 21st century readers — such as the notion that Daleks were secretly behind the work of some of Earth's most important figures, like William Shakespeare and Albert Einstein.

Summary
Jeff Stone covertly lands on Skaro near an extinct volcano. He pops down inside and finds access to the lower levels of a Dalek city. He explores the city fully, and is detected only by a single Dalek. Nevertheless, he is able to rush out of the city and return to Earth to report his findings to his colleagues.

Characters

 * Jeff Stone
 * Dalek Emperor
 * Daleks

Continuity
to be added

Timeline
Precise dating is awfully difficult with this one, but there are a few clues. It must be after 1971, because Stone encounters a museum placard with that year on it. This Dalek city runs on electricity, not static electricity, so it's different from what the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan encountered. The Daleks, by this point, have thoroughly infested our Solar System, so that suggests a time period of at least the 2260s, the date of the first Dalek invasion of Earth by the original, pre-Time War Dalek Empire. (DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) One could arbitrarily assign it a chronological placement between the stories in this book – so between The Secret of the Mountain and The Humanoids – but its placement in the larger body of Doctor Who fiction is much harder. One can only guess at a point sometime after the 2290s when the Daleks return to Earth. (BFA: Lucie Miller)