Issue Description

In this issue...

STEVEN MOFFAT TALKS ABOUT THE SEASON FINALE IN DWM 479!

Head writer Steven Moffat talks about the return of the Cybermen in this year's final adventure.

"I really wanted to do a Cyberman story," says Steven, "because they were always my favourites when I was a kid, and I was quite surprised that one way or another I'd never used them in any of my own scripts, except as supporting characters. So I wanted to do a proper scary one..."

ALSO INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Extensive previews of Episodes 9 to 12 of the new series – Flatline, In the Forest of the Night, Dark Water and Death in Heaven. DWM talks exclusively to writers Jamie Mathieson, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Steven Moffat.DWM interviews Samuel Anderson, aka Danny PinkSteven Moffat answers readers’ questions in his exclusive columnDWM talks to Derrick Sherwin, Doctor Who's producer in the late 1960s.Kill the Moon writer Peter Harness talks in depth about the script for his episode.Reviews of the latest TV adventures: Time Heist, The Caretaker, Kill the Moon and Mummy on the Orient Express.DWM talks to the stars of the Eighth Doctor's latest audio series, Dark Eyes 3, including Paul McGann, Alex Macqueen & Georgia Moffett.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 episode The Stolen Earth.Jacqueline Rayner writes about the different ways of watching new episodes in Relative Dimensions.The results of the DWM 2013 Merchandise Poll are revealed.The Watcher tackles the controversial subject of last-minute edits 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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