Issue Description

STOP PRESS: THE BBC UNVEILS THE NINTH DOCTOR AT LONG LAST! CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON IS THE DOCTOR!

The Fact of Fiction – The Evil of the Daleks: Victorian Values – From Victorian London to Skaro – could it be the Final End? Alan Barnes is implanted with the Dalek Factor and holds up a mirror to...

The Telesnap Archive – Marco Polo (Part 1 ): The Roof of the World – Following the discovery of the missing telesnaps from the Season One classic, Marco Polo, DWM exclusively presents part one, with commentary from Marcus Hearn.

Comic Strip – Bad Blood (Part 5 of 5): High Noon! As Jodafra prepares the final stage of his cunning plan, the Doctor faces a race against time to stop him. Our latest comic strip, Bad Blood, reaches a bloody climax...

The Time Team: The Day of Armageddon - Rumble in the Jungle – Devious delegates and the dreaded Daleks... The Time Team return to Kembel to revisit the Day of Armageddon, the missing episode recently returned to the BBC Archive after nearly 40 years. Plus Andrew Pixley plays detective to determine which delegate is which!

Scheduled For Success (Part 3) – “Clash of the Titans” - Doctor Who and the Space War – The Doctor battles the crews of the Jupiter II, Moonbase Alpha and Ranger III as Andrew Pixley reaches the third instalment...

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, DWMail, Coming up…, DWM Reviews, Production Notes #2 – My Beautiful Balhoon – with Russell T Davies.

Doctor Who Magazine (1979)

Publisher

Panini Comics

Volume Description

AKA Doctor Who Weekly/Doctor Who Monthly

In October 1979 Marvel UK launched Doctor Who Weekly. The license to produce Doctor Who comic strips had been held by Polystyle since 1964, and the character had appeared almost continuously in their titles, starting in TV Comic then jumping to Countdown (later Countdown to TV Action and finally TV Action), then back to TV Comic. However, late in 1979 Polystyle lost the license to Marvel UK, and for the first time the Doctor had a regular title entirely devoted to himself.

It is the longest running TV tie-in magazine in the world, having an unbroken publication run of thirty-two years and counting (October 1979 to date). It began life as a weekly title, but switched to monthly production in September 1980 with its 44th issue, when its titled changed to Doctor Who - A Marvel Monthly. The title underwent further minor modifications over the next few years, becoming finally just Doctor Who Magazine as of #107.

Doctor Who Magazine contains a serialised monthly comic. It is ten oversized pages long. Each issue has features on the show, which have included news about current productions and releases, interviews with actors, retrospectives on past episodes, previews of upcoming episodes in production and reviews of licensed products.

In addition to the ongoing comic strip, early issues had back-up strips, both reprinting Marvel science fiction tales and providing new stories set in the Doctor Who Universe but not featuring the Doctor.

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