Issue Description

HOORAY! THE TENTH DOCTOR MAKES THE COVER OF DWM! HISTORY IS MADE!

Interview – David Tennant: The TARDIS has a new Tennant... and DWM has the first interview with him! Tenth Doctor David Tennant tells us about winning his dream role, donning that famous leather jacket and being compared unfavourably to a weasel. The cheek!

Comic Strip – The Cruel Sea (Part 1 of 4): The start of a new four-part adventure for the Ninth Doctor and Rose, from the pen of Dalek author Robert Shearman. Part One: All is not well on the red seas of Mars, which is a shame given that the Doctor fancies a holiday...

Interview – Russell T Davies (Part 1 of 2): Can you believe that it's been almost two years since Russell T Davies became Doctor Who's new executive producer? Since then he's overseen 13 new episodes (eight of which he wrote himself), been instrumental in casting two new Doctors, and is about to start work on another 28 adventures in time and space! Benjamin Cook asked Russell just when he finds to sleep...

Look Wright: As costume designer on Doctor Who, Lucinda Wright has been responsible for the look of the Ninth Doctor and Rose, recreating the styles of the 1940s and the 1980s, and forecasting the fashions of the year five billion. Benjamin Cook asks her where all this imagination comes from...

The Fact of Fiction – Revelation of the Daleks: We take an in-depth look at the classic 1985 serial – out on DVD this month.

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, DWMail, Next Issue, After Image, Further Adventures, Off the Shelf, 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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