Issue Description

In this issue...

STEVEN MOFFAT REVEALS SECRETS ABOUT PETER CAPALDI'S FIRST SERIES IN DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE #476

Showrunner and head writer Steven Moffat gives DWM readers an exclusive guide to the new series of Doctor Who...

'Oh, it's a proper blockbuster this episode,' writes Steven about one of the brand new adventures, 'so many explosions that Peter Capaldi came in on his day off to watch the Daleks blowing up! I like a Doctor who revels in the destruction of evil in his downtime…'

Also in this issue:

Doctor Who's production designer Michael Pickwoad on how to create entire worlds.Former script editor Andrew Cartmel talks to the writers he employed on what could have been Doctor Who's very last season: Ben Aaronovitch, Ian Briggs, Marc Platt and Rona Munro.Terrance Dicks – script editor, writer and novelist supreme – talks about his work on Target's Doctor Who books.DWM pays tribute to the life and times of director Derek Martinus, the man who introduced the Cybermen, Ice Warriors and Autons to Doctor Who.The Fact of Fiction takes a detailed look at the 1982 Fifth Doctor adventure, Kinda.The Crystal Throne ­– the brand new comic strip adventure starring Vastra, Jenny and Strax continues.The Time Team watch the Doctor meet River Song for the first time in Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead.Jacqueline Rayner and her family get World Cup fever as they wait for the start of the new series in Relative Dimensions.The Watcher poses more questions and reveals dubious secrets from the archives in Wotcha!Reviews and previews of the latest CDs and books.Official news, the DWM crossword, prize-winning competitions 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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