Issue Description

In issue 469 Doctor Who Magazine talks exclusively to the Twelfth Doctor – Peter Capaldi!

“I was five when the show started,” Peter tells DWM. “I don’t remember Doctor Who not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The Beatles, National Health spectacles, and fog. And it runs deep. It’s in my DNA...”

ALSO INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Doctor Who's executive producer Steven Moffat talks candidly to DWM in an in-depth interview.A look at 60s monster-makers Shawcraft, with never-before-seen colour photos.A preview of The Moonbase DVD with exclusive images.The Curse of Fenric – an in-depth guide to the classic Seventh Doctor adventure.Steven Moffat answers readers' questions on The Day of the Doctor.Pay the Piper – the Doctor and Clara in Part 2 of the latest comic strip.Author Jacqueline Rayner writes about a world inspired by Doctor Who.The Time Team watch Series Two of Torchwood.The opportunity to vote in the Ultimate Doctor Who survey – with a huge prize at stake!Reviews of all the latest DVDs and Cds.Competitions, puzzles, and much more!

Start the new year with DWM 469, out Thursday 9 January, price £4.99!

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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