Seventh Doctor comic stories

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Somewhat after the broadcast of the Doctor Who television story Time and the Rani, Doctor Who Magazine's Seventh Doctor comic stories began. While the cancellation of the Doctor Who television series was undoubtedly bad news for Sylvester McCoy's longevity in the role, it was an unexpected boon to the Seventh Doctor's comic life. With no new Doctor on the horizon, the Seventh Doctor lived on in the pages of DWM for years after the transmission of McCoy's final regular appearance on TV in Survival in 1989.

In fact, the Seventh Doctor became the first incarnation of the Doctor to be in two regular comic publications simultaneously. Pre-figuring the Tenth Doctor's later "double-duty" in DWM and Doctor Who Adventures, the Seventh Doctor was, briefly, in both DWM and The Incredible Hulk Presents, another Marvel publication.

Several different approaches were taken by DWM during this era. At first, they told stories which had no obvious connection to the television series. Frobisher briefly ushered in the new Doctor's era, before scampering off. The Doctor then travelled around either on his own or with one-off companions.

After the television series ended, and the Virgin New Adventures series began, there was an effort to try to fit the comic stories into the novels' continuity. This period, though, came to a definitive end when DWM killed off Ace in Ground Zero — an act that deliberately returned DWM to its own, separate continuity.

By this stage, however, DWM had taken the editorial decision to consider the Seventh Doctor as a "past" incarnation. They began to use the comic space to tell stories of the other incarnations, which gave modern artists and writers the chance to feature Doctors and companions who hadn't really been a part of the DWM strip before. Thus, though the Seventh Doctor had a much longer reign in comics than television, it was a few years shorter than the gap between Survival and the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie, where the Seventh Doctor regenerated into the Eighth on-screen. By contrast, the Eighth Doctor's era ended only when the Ninth Doctor's began in the 2005 episode Rose.

Comic strip companions of the Seventh Doctor

Regular

• Ace (Doctor Who Magazine, Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor)
• Bernice Summerfield (Doctor Who Magazine)

One-off

• Frobisher (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Olla (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Susan (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Sarah Jane Smith (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Peri (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Ly-Chee (The Incredible Hulk Presents)
• Melanie Bush (Doctor Who Magazine)

Seventh Doctor comic stories

Doctor Who Magazine

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in	Released
A Cold Day in Hell!	Simon Furman	Frobisher, Olla, Ice Warriors	133-133	8 October 1987-14 October 1988
Redemption!		Olla	134	11 February 1988
The Crossroads of Time		Death's Head	135	10 March 1988
Claws of the Klathi!	Mike Collins		136-138	14 April-19 June 1988
Culture Shock!	Grant Morrison		139	14 July 1988
Keepsake	Simon Furman		140	11 August 1988
Planet of the Dead	John Freeman	First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Katarina, Sara, Jamie, Adric	141-142	8 September-8 October 1988
Echoes of the Mogor!	Dan Abnett		143-144	10 November-8 December 1988
Time and Tide	Richard Alan and John Carnell		145-146	12 January-19 February 1989
Follow That TARDIS!	John Carnell	The Monk	147	9 March 1989
Invaders from Gantac!	Alan Grant		148-150	13 April-8 June 1989
Nemesis of the Daleks	Richard Alan and Steve Alan	Abslom Daak, Daleks	152-155	10 August-9 November 1989
Stairway to Heaven	Paul Cornell and John Freeman		156	14 December 1989
Hunger from the Ends of Time!	Dan Abnett		157-158	11 January-8 February 1990
Train-Flight	Andrew Donkin and Graham S. Brand	Sarah	159-161	8 March-10 May 1990
Doctor Conkerer!	Ian Rimmer		162	14 June 1990
Fellow Travellers	Andrew Cartmel	Ace	164-166	9 August-4 October 1990
Distractions	Dan Abnett		168	29 November 1990
The Mark of Mandragora		Ace, Captain Muriel Frost, The Brig, UNIT, Mandragora Helix	169-172	27 December 1990-21 March 1991
Party Animals	Gary Russell	Fourth Doctor, Ace, Death's Head, Dr Ivan Asimoff, Freefall Warriors	173	18 April 1991
The Chameleon Factor	Paul Cornell	Ace, Second Doctor, Ben, Polly	174	16 May 1991
The Good Soldier	Andrew Cartmell	Ace, Cybermen	175-178	13 June-5 September 1991
A Glitch in Time	John Freeman	Ace	179	3 October 1991
Evening's Empire (incomplete)	Andrew Cartmel	Ace, Colonel Muriel Frost, UNIT	180	31 October 1991
The Grief	Dan Abnett	Ace	185-187	19 March-14 May 1992
Ravens	Andrew Cartmel		188-190	11 June-6 August 1992
Memorial	Scott Gray	Ace	191	3 September 1992
Cat Litter	Marc Platt		192	1 October 1992
Pureblood	Dan Abnett	Benny, Sontarans	193-196	29 October 1992-21 January 1993
Emperor of the Daleks!	Paul Cornell	Sixth Doctor, Peri, Benny, Abslom Daak, Daleks, Davros	197-202	18 February-8 July 1993
Final Genesis	Scott Gray	Ace, Benny, Silurians	203-206	5 August-8 October 1993
Time & Time Again	Paul Cornell	First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Susan, Jamie, Zoe, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, Frobisher, Ace, Benny, White Guardian, Black Guardian	207	25 November 1993
Cuckoo	Dan Abnett	Ace, Benny	208-210	23 December 1993-17 February 1994
Uninvited Guest	Scott Gray		211	17 March 1994
Ground Zero		Ace, Susan, Sarah, Peri, Threshold	238-242	11 April-1 August 1996
The Last Word	Gareth Roberts	Ace, Benny, Timewyrm	305	31 May 2001

Doctor Who Magazine specials

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in
Plastic Millenium	Gareth Roberts	Mel, Nestene Consciousness, Autons	DWMS Winter 1994
Seaside Rendezvous	Paul Cornell	Ace, Ogri	DWMS Summer 1991
Evening's Empire	Andrew Cartmel	Ace, Col. Muriel Frost, UNIT	DWCC Autumn Holiday Special
Flashback	Scott Gray	Benny, First Doctor	DWMS Winter 1992
Younger and Wiser		Benny	DWMS Summer 1994

Death's Head Vol 1

• Time Bomb! (DH 8)

The Incredible Hulk Presents

• Once in a Lifetime (IHP 1)
• Hunger from the Ends of Time! (IHP 2-3)
• War World! (IHP 4)
• Technical Hitch (IHP 5)
• A Switch in Time! (IHP 6)
• The Sentinel! (IHP 7)
• Who's That Girl! (IHP 8-9)
• The Enlightenment of Ly-Chee the Wise (IHP 10 featuring Ly-Chee)
• Slimmer! (IHP 11)
• Nineveh! (IHP 12)

Doctor Who Yearbook

• Under Pressure (Doctor Who Yearbook 1992 featuring Ace)
• Metamorphosis (Doctor Who Yearbook 1993 featuring Ace)
• A Religious Experience (Doctor Who Yearbook 1994)

 IDW Publishing

Miniseries

• The Forgotten (TF 4 featuring Ace, the first ten Doctors (save the War Doctor), and numerous other companions)

Doctor Who (2012)

• Dead Man's Hand (DW12 15 featuring Matrix projections of the first eleven Doctors and the War Doctor)

Prisoners of Time

• Cat and Mouse (POT 7 featuring Ace)
• Endgame (POT 12 featuring Ace, the first eleven Doctors (save the War Doctor), and numerous other companions)

Titan Comics

Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor

• Operation Volcano (7D 1-3 featuring Ace)

Back-up strips

• Prologue: The Seventh Doctor (10DY2 13 featuring Ace)
• Hill of Beans (7D 1-3 featuring Ace)

Miniseries

• The Lost Dimension (TLD 8)

External links

• Altered Vistas - In the Comics - The Seventh Doctor
• Doctor Who Magazine strips featuring the Seventh Doctor at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• Incredible Hulk Presents strips featuring the Seventh Doctor at the Doctor Who Reference Guide