Issue Description

In this issue...

Catch up with Paul McGann, as he discussed life after Eight – in Doctor Who Magazine 472!

“You know what? I don't expect to ever to be involved again,” the Eighth Doctor actor tells DWM. “But I expect I’ll be surprised one day by something. That's what Doctor Who's about. I expect to be surprised…”

Also in this issue:

DWM goes behind the scenes and talks exclusively with the director of the recent episodes Hide and The Time of the Doctor, Jamie Payne.John Levene recalls his time playing Cybermen, Yeti and UNIT regular Benton in an in-depth interviewMaster model-makers Mike Tucker and his team reveal their experiences of providing visual effects for 21st-century Doctor Who.Showrunner Steven Moffat answers readers’ questions.A detailed look at The Fact of Fiction of the 1982 Fifth Doctor adventure, Time-FlightThe Blood of Azrael ­– the Doctor and Clara in the Part 3 of their latest comic strip adventure.The Time Team take a trip to the Planet of the Ood.Jacqueline Rayner casts a critical eye over the Twelfth Doctor’s choice of apparel in Relative Dimensions.The Watcher ponders how Doctor Who companions sometimes know things that they oughtn’t and embarrasses another supporting artiste in Wotcha!Reviews of the latest DVDs, CDs, and books.Competitions, puzzles, 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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