Issue Description

Doctor Who Magazine 421

There are Vampires, Silurians and life-changing choices to be made, in Doctor Who Magazine 421!

DWM previews four fantastic forthcoming episodes of Doctor Who – The Vampires of Venice, Amy’s Choice, The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood.

There are exclusive interviews with writers Toby Whithouse, Simon Nye, Chris Chibnall and Steven Moffat, and never-before-seen photos!

Talking about the new-look reptile people of The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood, Chris Chibnall reveals, “These new creatures don’t negate the original Silurians, they’re a different exploration of the same idea.

They’re close cousins. And once you see Neve McIntosh (who plays Silurians Alaya and Restac) and Matt Smith acting their socks off together, I’m hoping you’ll feel the idea paid off…”

Also this issue:

It’s educational!

Head writer Steven Moffat gets his head flushed down the loo and tells us what else happened when Matt Smith and Karen Gillan went back to school with the Doctor Who team, in Production Notes!

It’s bigger on the inside!

It’s the most incredible ship in the entire universe – the Doctor’s trusty TARDIS! Join the Watcher as he leads you through his indispensible in-depth guide to the Time Lord’s astonishing time and space machine.

It’s all very, very colourful!

They’re bigger than before. And they’ve had a paint job! Writer Mark Gatiss, actors Nick Briggs and Barnaby Edwards and designer Ed Thomas explain just how and why the brand new Daleks have come about.

It’s absolutely super!

The Eleventh Doctor and Amy visit a jungle planet that’s full of scarysurprises, as they make their DWM comic strip debut in Supernature, written by Jonathan Morris with art by Mike Collins.

It’s a mystery!

Just who is the smart, sexy and teasingly enigmatic River Song? DWM catches up with the actress who plays her, Alex Kingston, and finds out exactly what she knows about the secrets of her elusive character.

It’s the bloke who was Demon Headmaster!

DWM meets the Terrence Hardiman, who chats candidly about his sinister role in The Beast Below – and what it’s like to be best known for terrifying children!

It’s written down in front of you!

Just how is a Doctor Who script translated from script to screen? DWM finds out just how it done as it talks to Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Caitlin Blackwood and Steven Moffat about bringing The Eleventh Hour to life.

It’s stuffed to the gills!

There’s also a host of prize-winning competitions, DVD and audio previews, reviews of The Eleventh Hour, The Beast Below and the latest CDs, DVDs and games, all the very latest official news, and much, much more!

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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