February 21st, 2024
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Doctor Who The Return of The Daleks Back-Up Tales Vol. 1
Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk and www.hive.co.uk and www.uk.bookshop.org
Available to order from www.amazon.com
Discover timeless tales of the Daleks, Cybermen, Silurians and many more in this brand-new collection from Panini Comics!
These ‘back-up tales’, taken from the early days of Doctor Who Weekly, are a highly sought-after and much-loved slice of Doctor Who comicbook history – and they’re now back in print for the first time in decades. Featuring the work of British comicbook legends Steve Moore and David Lloyd, each strip has been digitally restored to the highest quality, ensuring that these thrilling stories can be enjoyed at their absolute best.
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Nick
February 22nd, 2024 - 11:21amAwesome – about time these are released! Roll on Vol 2!
anon
February 21st, 2024 - 8:45pmI’ll wait until I have a listing of what’s in it before forking out again!
Anon
February 21st, 2024 - 1:18pmWhy isn’t this available on panini’s website? I don’t like ordering these from Amazon as they never seem to get stock in in time. My last few orders took weeks to arrive
Rich
February 21st, 2024 - 1:07pmSorry Rory, that comment was adressed to Anon
Bookcollector
February 21st, 2024 - 12:53pmThis will feature some unreleased material but it will feature seven previously released stories.
abslom daak – dalek killer
Star tigers
Throwback (Kroton)
Ship of fools (Kroton)
Return of the daleks
Death world
Black legacy
But this is volume one, it is a full reprint of all back up strips so I don’t mind having them reprinted again. Would have preferred though for this to have been released before the dalek/cyberman volumes though.
Phil
February 21st, 2024 - 12:48pmThe back-up strips in Dr Who Weekly/ early DW monthly are probably the best DW comic strips ever created. I am keeping my fingers crossed that these releases will be comprehensive and include Alan Moore’s contributions!
daz
February 21st, 2024 - 11:57amTo be fair. The sales of those dalek collections last year probably resulted in these being greenlit for this year.
Rory
February 21st, 2024 - 10:56amGood to see these released. Now, could they get onto the TV Comic/Action strips as well?
Even the DW Adventures strips.
I want it all.
Lottie
March 13th, 2024 - 8:16pm1000% agree
Koth
February 21st, 2024 - 10:19amWhats the story list in this? Anyone know yet?
rich
February 21st, 2024 - 7:22amBrill, but i bought a Dalek book from them last year because it had half this stuff in.
Anon
February 21st, 2024 - 9:22amNot half, volume one had only one unpublished story (return of the daleks), volume two had one story (the first Cushing story) and cybermen had two unpublished stories (death world and black legacy) so hardly half considering the number of back up strips. Is it annoying that they didn’t do this first before releasing expensive collections with only a few newly published stories? Yes it is. But the vast majority of the back up strips have not been reprinted so I’m very happy this is coming out.
EVAN MARSHALL
February 21st, 2024 - 9:27amI think it only had one back-up strip in each of those Dalek volumes last year, so you’ll be getting a *lot* more here. However, I do appreciate that you and many of the rest of us but those volumes of reprints just for the back-up strips as we thought it might be the only way we could own them in cleaned-up, restored, reprint form. It would have been nice if they’d let us know that we didn’t need to as they were bringing this out. But then, I guess, half their sales for those volumes would have disappeared.
Ah well, we’ll just have to write off the money we wasted on the three reprint volumes (two Daleks and one Cybermen) and celebrate that these new volumes are happening.
Rory
February 21st, 2024 - 10:54amQuite glad I waited now. It was tempting to get the Dalek and Cybermen books just for the new content, but I had more pressing calls on my wallet. I’ll definitely pick up these.
Rich
February 21st, 2024 - 1:04pmRory, the Absolom daak stuff was also in The Daleks book that I bought
Anon
February 21st, 2024 - 4:15pmYes the daak stuff was there but it had been collected previously in nemesis of the daleks.