Issue Description

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine celebrates 50 years of the Doctor's deadliest enemies – the Daleks! The mag comes complete with a FREE, giant double-sided poster, and is choc-full of Dalek-related content.

Inside the issue, you'll find…

We Are the Daleks – An in-depth feature looks at why the Daleks remain Doctor Who's number-one monsters after 50 years.1960s Dalek voice artist DAVID GRAHAM comes face to face with his modern equivalent NICHOLAS BRIGGS!Discover surprising facts and see rare images from the first ever Dalek story in The Fact of Fiction.Anatomy of a Dalek – find out what lurks within the metal casing!Doctor Who's showrunner STEVEN MOFFAT reveals the secrets of being a successful writer in Production Notes.The Blood of Azrael – the second part of a new comic strip adventure for the Doctor and Clara.Model-maker extraordinaire MIKE TUCKER and members of the Model Unit talk exclusively to DWM about their work on Doctor Who, Red Dwarf and more.The Time Team travels back to ancient Rome to witness The Fires of Pompeii.Jacqueline Rayner recalls her favourite moments from Doctor Who's 50th anniversary in Relative Dimensions.A review of the recently rediscovered The Web of Fear on DVD.The Watcher champions a little-known Dalek story by the writer who created them, Terry Nation, in Wotcha!.Reviews and previews of the latest DVDs, CDs and books.Prize-winning competitions, official news and much more!

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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