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Panini has also begun to reprint the early Doctor Who Magazine strips in trade paperback format.Īt the height of 'Dalekmania' in the 1960s, a comic strip featuring the Daleks written by David Whitaker but credited to Terry Nation appeared in the Gerry Anderson TV Century 21 comic magazine. Two short-lived spin-off series, Miranda from Comeuppance Comics and Faction Paradox from Mad Norwegian Press, have also appeared, both featuring characters who had debuted in Doctor Who novels.ĭoctor Who Magazine, which is now owned by Panini Comics, continues to produce new comic-strip adventures. The publishers of Doctor Who Magazine have also produced a number of special issues, annuals, and other publications containing comics. In the 'Flood Barriers' feature in the trade paperback Doctor Who: The Flood, it is revealed the comic strip was given the opportunity to show the regeneration of the Eighth Doctor into the Ninth Doctor. When Doctor Who Magazine was published by Marvel, some characters occasionally crossed over between the Doctor Who comic and other titles published by Marvel UK these include the froglike Venusian businessman Josiah Dogbolter and the robotic bounty hunter Death's Head. Marvel Premiere #57 (December 1980) was the first Doctor Who comic published in North America. Selected stories were reprinted in North America by Marvel Comics, which was also the publisher of Doctor Who Magazine at the time. Creators who have worked on the Doctor Who Magazine strip include such notables as writer Alan Moore and artists Dave Gibbons, Mike McMahon, and John Ridgway.

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The comic strip has usually featured the current Doctor in a series of adventures independent of the novels and the audios, and with another companion, though several crossovers with the worlds of the audio and literary Doctor Who and the comics have occurred. This began as a Marvel Comics publication under the name Doctor Who Weekly in 1979 (soon changing to Doctor Who Monthly), and the magazine continued to be published after the programme ceased production in 1989.

The regular Doctor Who Annuals from World Distributors published comics most years from the first annual until they ceased publication in 1985.Ī comic strip also regularly appeared in the pages of Doctor Who Magazine. Their place within established continuity has challenged fans ever since, although attempts have been made to reconcile their existence in various spin-off fiction venues. īoth the First and Second Doctors were, for a time, shown travelling with two youngsters named John and Gillian who are identified as the Doctor's grandchildren. All these titles were produced by a company called Polystyle Publications (formally TV Publications), which held the rights to publish a Doctor Who comic until May 1979 when the last installment of the strip appeared. The strip appeared almost every week: first in TV Comic, then in Countdown and TV Action before returning to TV Comic. Paul Scoones, a historian of the Doctor Who comic strip, writes:įirst launched in the pages of TV Comic in November 1964, the comic strip version of Doctor Who is just one year younger than the television series on which it is based.

The first phase has become known as the ‘Polystyle era’ (1964-1979) of Doctor Who comic strips. Comic strip adventures of the Doctor appeared almost from the beginning of the television series.