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|''[[Yonder... The Yeti (comic story)|Yonder... The Yeti]]'' | |''[[Yonder... The Yeti (comic story)|Yonder... The Yeti]]'' | ||
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|''[[Cybermen: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection]]'' | |''[[Cybermen: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection]]'' | ||
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|[[DWM 40|40]]-[[DWM 43|43]] | |[[DWM 40|40]]-[[DWM 43|43]] | ||
|''[[Business as Usual (comic story)|Business as Usual]]'' | |''[[Business as Usual (comic story)|Business as Usual]]'' | ||
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|''[[Star Death (comic story)|Star Death]]'' | |''[[Star Death (comic story)|Star Death]]'' | ||
|[[Rassilon]], [[Time Lord]]s | |[[Rassilon]], [[Time Lord]]s | ||
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|''[[Voyage to the Edge of the Universe (comic story)|Voyage to the Edge of the Universe]]'' | |''[[Voyage to the Edge of the Universe (comic story)|Voyage to the Edge of the Universe]]'' | ||
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|''[[The Greatest Gamble (comic story)|The Greatest Gamble]]'' | |''[[The Greatest Gamble (comic story)|The Greatest Gamble]]'' | ||
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These are comics that do not feature [[the Doctor]] and were not published as backup comics in DWM regular issues. | These are comics that do not feature [[the Doctor]] and were not published as backup comics in DWM regular issues. | ||
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|''[[Character Assassin (comic story)|Character Assassin]]'' | |''[[Character Assassin (comic story)|Character Assassin]]'' | ||
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|''[[Oblivion (graphic novel)|Oblivion]]'' | | rowspan="2" |''[[Oblivion (graphic novel)|Oblivion]]'' | ||
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|[[DWM 318|318]] | |[[DWM 318|318]] | ||
|''[[Me and My Shadow (comic story)|Me and My Shadow]]'' | |''[[Me and My Shadow (comic story)|Me and My Shadow]]'' | ||
|[[Fey Truscott-Sade|Feyde]] | |[[Fey Truscott-Sade|Feyde]] | ||
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|[[Imaginary Enemies (comic story)|''Imaginary Enemies'']] | |||
|[[Amy Pond|Amy]], [[Rory Williams|Rory]], [[Mels]] | |||
|''[[Hunters of the Burning Stone (graphic novel)|Hunters of the Burning Stone]]'' | |||
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Revision as of 20:00, 5 July 2024
In the early days of Doctor Who Magazine, short backup comic stories appeared in addition to the issue's main story. These strips typically did not include the Doctor other than as a "presenter", and tended to focus on other characters within the wider Doctor Who universe. Most backup comic stories were published prior to 1982, and so were printed in issues that otherwise featured the Fourth Doctor.
The term "DWM backup comic story" does not actually designate a formalised series. There was never a masthead featuring the term, and there was no particular consensus as to which strips could be considered "backups".
On this wiki, the term means any strip appearing in any issue of DWM or its predecessors which:
- is set in the DWU
- doesn't feature the Doctor, or at least doesn't use them as the main protagonist
- isn't clearly a part of the main strip's narrative
- has no other series name
- is original to the pages of DWM
Therefore, strips under the Tales from the TARDIS banner or Dalek Chronicles reprints are not covered by this article. Also not considered here are the occasional stories which are integral to the main strip's narrative, like Darkness, Falling, Me and My Shadow and Unnatural Born Killers, or the various long-running series of three-panel comic strips such as Doctor Who? and The Daft Dimension.
Early history
Because the format of Doctor Who Weekly originally included a greater concentration of comic strips, the magazine's comic staff was initially comprised of two creative teams. One group — Dave Gibbons, Pat Mills and John Wagner — was assigned to the "main" strip. This was the strip that was often featured on early covers and involved the Fourth Doctor.
It then fell to another team — initially Alan Moore, Steve Moore and David Lloyd — to make strips that didn't involve the Doctor. These tended to feature well-known villains, such as the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Sontarans and others. During this period, the Doctor often served as "host" of the stories, appearing in the opening and closing frames as a kind of narrator. Though many of the individual characters slipped into obscurity, the series did produce at least a couple of stand-outs. Both Abslom Daak and Kroton originated in the backups, but went on to be used in the main strip.
Appearing regularly through issue 59, the strip was initially absent in DWM #60, and was effectively cancelled after The Fires Down Below in DWM #64. Secondary stories that appeared thereafter were not original, but rather reprints from TV Century 21 or, more rarely, TV Comic.
Latter day "backups"
Disregarding "special issues" of DWM, non-Doctor stories were incredibly rare after 1982. In fact, the next time a non-Doctor story appeared in a regular issue of DWM was in issue 183's Conflict of Interests —with the next occasion over a hundred issues after that.
These latter-day stories generally didn't fit the mould of a "backup story", however, in that they were the only comic story in the issue. Thus, they weren't so much "backups" as the main story of the issue. Nevertheless, because there are so few of this kind of story, this wiki has simply elected to consider them the thematic heirs of the early 1980s stories.
List
Other comics
These are comics that do not feature the Doctor and were not published as backup comics in DWM regular issues.
DWM special issues
DWM | Title | Featuring | Collected In |
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Winter 1981 | Minatorius | Time Lords | |
Summer 1982 | The Fabulous Idiot | Ivan Asimoff | |
Summer 1982 | A Ship Called Sudden Death | Freefall Warriors | |
Holiday 1992 | City of Devils | Sarah Jane, K9, Silurians |
DWM Main Comics
The following served as the main comic story in the issues they were published. However, the Doctor was not present, making them akin the earlier backup stories.
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