Issue Description

I THINK MY BRAIN MAY HAVE MELTED. WE WERE ALL EXPECTING A MEDIA FRENZY TO SURROUND DOCTOR WHO'S LONG AWAITED RETURN TO BBC ONE, BUT THE SCALE OF THE MADNESS HAS BEEN STAGGERING.

Set Report – Episode 1: DWM takes you behind the scenes of Rose in the first of our exclusive reports from the set of the new Doctor Who series. Thrill to Billie Piper's 'lift acting', seagull attacks, sugary tea and Auton burps...

New Series Preview: Episode 2 – The End of the World

Comic Strip – The Love Invasion (Part 1): DWM proudly presents the first-ever comic strip appearance of the Ninth Doctor and Rose, as sinister happenings in Swinging London spoil a spot of Sixties shopping…

New Series Preview: Episode 3 – The Unquiet Dead

How to Build a TARDIS: Benjamin Cook talks to Edward Thomas and Bryan Hitch about reshaping the Doctor's iconic time machine for a new generation. Welcome to the TARDIS of 2005 – it's bigger on the inside...

New Series Preview: Episodes 4 & 5 – Aliens of London and World War Three.

Interview – Simon Callow: Our Mutual Friend – He's a renowned Charles Dickens expert, and played the man more than any other actor – so who else but Simon Callow could portray the playwright when he bumps into Doctor Who this month? Benjamin Cook caught up with the actor on set for The Unquiet Dead to find out about his great expectations...

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, DWMail, The Time Team – Horror of Fang Rock and The Invisible Enemy, Further Adventures, After Image, Off the Shelf, Next Issue, Production Notes 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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