Plenty of the story is as you remember it, though, albeit told from the viewpoint of Ian Chesterton. Whitaker’s revisions are intriguing too, treating the book as if it were an entry point into the series for the reader and so coming up with a new way for the characters to meet (as well as coming up with an idea for a Dalek that would ultimately be realised in the TV show over 20 years later). With Whitaker’s imagination not limited by a TV budget Hack is also able to work on a larger scale than the original, and ramp up the horror in some scenes: the realisation of the Dalek mutants is satisfyingly unsettling. There are some of the same bold colours from Cushing’s movie but usually one colour dominates each painting, giving the images a sense of monochrome without painting in only greys. Hack’s approach to the art, which is the really distinctive element here, is a successful fusion of the monochrome TV original, Whitaker’s prose, and the Peter Cushing colourful movie version from 1965. You may have seen his art in the comics and TV title sequence of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. The difference with this re-release (there was an earlier one in 2011) is it’s in hardback with illustrations by American artist Robert Hack (who started working on the IDW Comic range in 2008). BBC Books has released a new edition of ‘ Doctor Who and the Daleks’, David Whitaker’s adaptation of the first Dalek story that was originally published in 1964 (under the title ‘Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks’) and the first Doctor Who novel ever published.
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