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It’s crunch time for Dalek maker Julian Vince, who is about to lose his entire collection of Doctor Who related items, and many personal effects, including family mementos and more.
We previously featured a crowdfunder to cover storage fees and save his life’s work – Daleks, photos, props and more – from destruction last month, but the fundraising target hasn’t been met.
The items in store include an original backdrop of the Dalek city featured in the first Daleks TV story, and other incredible rarities.
Right now, Julian is trying to urgently raise just £1500 before Friday (14th March 2025), just to get him back in the storage before it permanently closes down, and his property in the units is destroyed, as they need everything removed.
The only thing Julian has freely available to sell is a 100 per cent genuine Derek Dodd “Dalek gun” that featured in the 1966 Doctor Who story, “The Power of the Daleks”
“I need exactly £1500 – more would help – as the ‘entrance fee’ to get back into my units and try and save things as quickly as possible,” Julian tells downthetubes. “Then I might just save some things. Otherwise it is hopeless. I need money I don’t have, and can’t get anything else out to sell as it’s all trapped in the units.”
Julian sold the Derek Dodd-created Dalek last year, but the little gun is for sale, which is small, but totally 100% genuine. “I bought them as a lot when Derek’s family sold his things off a few years ago,” Julian explains. “This little gun is the only thing I have left now, which is a genuine 1966 original prop.“
If you want to grab this extremely rare Doctor Who item contact Julian by email as soon as possible juliangenesis21ATgmail.com (replace AT with @). Or support the GoFundMe
• The Daleks in Print Facebook Page features decades of Dalek and Doctor Who work by Julian Vince. Since the 1970s, his work has been seen in publications ranging from Fanzines, to official books, dvds, posters, cards and more
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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