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In this issue...

COMEDIAN FRANK SKINNER CHATS EXCLUSIVELY ABOUT HIS DOCTOR WHO ROLE – IN DWM 478!

FRANK SKINNER – Mummy on the Orient Express guest star, and life-long Doctor Who fan – speaks about his role in the new series, playing Perkins.

“I don’t know how I’ll feel when they say, ‘And that’s a wrap for Mr Skinner,’” Franks admits. “I’m sure I’ll go through a mix of emotions. When footballers are in cup finals, the managers always say, ‘Savour every moment,’ and that’s what I’m doing. Every moment is ‘wowee’!”

ALSO INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Extensive previews of Episodes 5 to 8 of the new series – Time Heist, The Caretaker, Kill the Moon and Mummy on the Orient Express. DWM talks exclusively to writers STEVEN MOFFAT, STEPHEN THOMPSON, GARETH ROBERTS, PETER HARNESS and JAMIE MATHIESON.Doctor Who showrunner STEVEN MOFFAT answers readers’ questions in his exclusive column.DWM talks to BILLY HANSHAW, the man who inspired the brand new title sequence for this year’s series of Doctor Who.DWM investigates the nature of ‘spoilers’ and asks if they really spoil anything?Into the Dalek writer PHIL FORD talks about getting to know a Dalek from the inside out!In-depth reviews the Twelfth Doctor’s first four adventures: Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, Robot of Sherwood and Listen.As audio company Big Finish celebrates its 15th anniversary with an epic audio adventure, The Worlds of Doctor Who, DWM talks to its stars including COLIN BAKER, LOUISE JAMESON, LALLA WARD, CHRISTOPHER BENJAMIN, TREVOR BAXTER and JAMIE GLOVER.The Doctor and Clara’s comic strip adventures continue in The Eye of Torment written by Scott Gray, illustrated by Martin Geraghty.The Time Team comment on the 2008 Tenth Doctor adventure Turn Left.Jacqueline Rayner finds unexpected inspiration for her Relative Dimensions column at the breakfast table…A look back at August’s Doctor Who World Tour which saw PETER CAPALDI and JENNA COLEMAN travel round the globe to promote the new series.The Watcher eloquently explains why Doctor Who belongs in the Autumn in Wotcha!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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