Issue Description

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE...

fanta'stic: Christopher Eccleston promised us “the trip of a lifetime” and that's exactly what he gave us. Benjamin Cook reports from the set on Chris' last day, as we pay tribute to the Ninth Doctor...

Comic Strip – A Groatsworth of Wit (Part 1 of 2) : The Ninth Doctor begins his final story, as he and Rose visit Soho and meet a man out of time...

2005 Season Survey – The Results: Time's up! Your votes have been counted, re-counted and checked by a massive bank of whirring computers. And now, at long last, we can reveal what were your favourite bits of the 2005 series of Doctor Who. Tom Spilsbury asks for a drumroll – and quiet at the back please...

Under the Tree: Find out what gifts Santa might be leaving under your Christmas tree next month in our festive Off the Shelf special.

The Fact of Fiction – The Unquiet Dead: Our Ninth Doctor tribute continues with a trip back to Cardiff 1869...

Preview – Series One DVD Box Set: We preview the goodies stuffed inside the new Complete First Series box set...

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, Matrix Data Bank, DWMail, The Time Team – The Androids of Tara and The Power of Kroll, Further Adventures, Off the Shelf, Production Notes with Steven Moffat

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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