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. 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). You may have seen his art in the comics and TV title sequence of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
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. There are some of the same bold colours from Cushing’s movie but usually one colour dominates each painting,...
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. There are some of the same bold colours from Cushing’s movie but usually one colour dominates each painting,...
- 11/22/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
On the outside it looked like an old-fashioned paperback book. The words 'Doctor Who' were emblazoned in huge white-bordered blue letters on the rose-red background above the bold black proclamation 'And The Pyramids Of Mars'. Underneath them, a floppy-hatted, curly haired time traveller with an impressively long scarf who I had recently discovered on a Saturday tea-time show adorned the cover, along with a menacing, barrel-chested Egyptian mummy and a rifle wielding young woman who I was pretty sure wasn't the same girl who accompanied him on the television.
[ I soon discovered that this was in fact previous - and future - companion Sarah Jane Smith, rather than the current Time Lady, Romana (mercifully short for Romanadvoratrelundar), originally played by Mary Tamm, and then by Lalla Ward after controversially 'trying on' several forms before settling on that of Princess Astra from The Armageddon Factor. ]
On the inside, however, this slim tome that I'd found lurking in the revolving metal rack in my local public library on a chilly autumn day in 1978 was every bit as magical as the blue police box that I was rapidly growing to love. Its relative dimensions promised me a journey through time and space using the power of words alone,...
[ I soon discovered that this was in fact previous - and future - companion Sarah Jane Smith, rather than the current Time Lady, Romana (mercifully short for Romanadvoratrelundar), originally played by Mary Tamm, and then by Lalla Ward after controversially 'trying on' several forms before settling on that of Princess Astra from The Armageddon Factor. ]
On the inside, however, this slim tome that I'd found lurking in the revolving metal rack in my local public library on a chilly autumn day in 1978 was every bit as magical as the blue police box that I was rapidly growing to love. Its relative dimensions promised me a journey through time and space using the power of words alone,...
- 2/28/2011
- Shadowlocked
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