Issue Description

"CROESO!"

Designing Doctor Who: Special make-up and prosthetics for the new series are Neill Gorton's responsibility – DWM caught up with this enthusiastic model-maker...

Eric Saward Interview (Part 2) – Waving, Not Drowning: There should have been another way! In the second part of his revealing interview, former script editor Eric Saward reveals the worst episode ever (apparently, it's one of his) and tells us why some writers are better than others. Just don't mention shape-changing robots...

The Telesnap Archive – Marco Polo (Part 7): Assassin at Peking – Will Tegana be unmasked at long (long, long, long) last as the assassin? And will our heroes ever get their flying caravan back again? Find out in the final part of our Telesnap Archive of the lost 1964 classic Marco Polo.

Happy Times and Places? (Part 2) 1985-1995 – Mad Magazine: Continuing this special feature celebrating 25 years of Doctor Who Magazine, Marcus Hearn takes us through the 80s and into the 90s – as DWM learned to survive with no TV series to support it...

'Are you tired of playing Dr. Who?': Despite playing the role of the original Doctor for three years, William Hartnell agreed to very few interviews. Now, thanks to a letter sent to Lynn Young in 1965, we can learn a little more about man who was Doctor Who – in his own words...

Comic Strip – The Flood (Part 2): Heavy Metal – Camden has some unusual visitors (even by its own standards!} as The Flood continues...

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, DWMail, Coming Up, The Time Team: Revenge of the Cybermen and Terror of the Zygons, DWM Reviews & Production Notes #7 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.

Please first Sign In before leaving a review.

Status: Not in Collection