Above The Anti-Dalek Force run into their adversaries once again in Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! – a story in Terry Nation’s Dalek Annual 1976. Art by Edgar Hodges.
In the 1970s, as the Daleks became a regular fixture of the television series once again, their renewed popularity ensured that, just as in the previous decade, their machinations and misdeeds were chronicled in prose.
If a Doctor Who-related story was commissioned for a mainstream publication, you could be sure the Daleks would be the featured monster. Indeed, if it came to a choice between a story with the Daleks and no Doctor, and a story with the Doctor and no Daleks, the story with the Daleks would win. For example, when commissioned to write a story for a special Radio Times publication celebrating Doctor Who’s tenth anniversary (published in December 1973), Terry Nation chose to focus almost entirely on the Daleks, including the Doctor only in a short prologue.