Issue Description

Doctor Who Magazine joins in the festive spirit with a bumper-sized 100-page Christmas issue. And to celebrate the fact that Christmas Day will see the broadcast of the 800th episode of Doctor Who, the mag comes complete with a HUGE double sided-poster – one side celebrating Matt Smith’s years as the Doctor, and the other featuring images from every single episode – all 800 of them! – since the series began.

ALSO INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

The Time of the Doctor – a preview of the Christmas Special, with exclusive new photographs.Steven Moffat talks exclusively to DWM in an in-depth interview.The life and times of Doctor Who‘s first writer, Anthony Coburn.DWM tells the previously unknown story of one of the men instrumental in the creation of Doctor Who: CE ‘Bunny’ Webber.The DWM Review of 2013.The Watcher’s Guide to the Eleventh Doctor.A look back at the Doctor Who Celebration at the ExCeL.A Christmas Carol – an in-depth guide to Matt Smith’s first Chrismas Special.Production Notes – showrunner Steven Moffat talks candidly about the biggest day of his career.Pay the Piper Part 1 – a brand new comic strip.Author Jacqueline Rayner looks back on Doctor Who‘s Christmas past.The Time Team watch 2007′s Voyage of the Damned.The Watcher’s Feindishly Festive Christmas Quiz!Competitions, puzzles, and much more!

It’s time for Christmas with DWM 468, out Thursday 12 December, price £5.99!

Doctor Who Magazine (1979)

Publisher

Panini Comics

Volume Description

AKA Doctor Who Weekly/Doctor Who Monthly

Publication history

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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