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As with the television series, the [[William Hartnell]] version of the Doctor was '''the original comic strip Doctor'''. However, the actor's portrayal of the character was often lost in ''[[TV Comic]]'', the dominant publication to feature [[First Doctor]] stories. At a superficial level, the character wasn't called "the Doctor", but "Dr. Who". Yet at a basic level, the comics were hampered by the inclusion of two children as his companions. Though they may well have made it easier for kids — the primary target audience for the comic strips — to relate to the Doctor, they made it almost impossible for a well-rounded portrayal of the First Doctor's many qualities. Especially profound was the loss of the Doctor's inherent "grumpiness"; with no adults around, the Doctor had no target for his anger. Thus, the comic First Doctor was reduced to being just a grandfather with a time-space ship.
{{First pic|Klepton Parasites First Appearance.jpg|The first appearance of [[the Doctor]] in the comic medium. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Klepton Parasites (comic story)|The Klepton Parasites]]'')}}
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As with the television series, the [[William Hartnell]]'s [[First Doctor]] was '''the original comic strip Doctor'''.


However, even these two points were somewhat in doubt.
The first ''Doctor Who'' comics to be printed were those featured in ''[[TV Comic]]''. Consistently labeled as little more than the series' title for the entire run, all but one of the original ''First Doctor'' stories were given titles much later by comic strip and ''Who'' historians. The original comics introduced the characters of the Doctor's grandchildren, [[John Who|John]] and [[Gillian Who|Gillian]], who served as the strip's replacements to [[Susan Foreman]]. The strip introduced them as having lived on [[20th century]] [[Earth]] before meeting their grandfather, but never expounded on their origins before the comic, nor their relation to Susan. Because of this, stories exploring the Doctor's family or history on [[Gallifrey]] have almost consistently "forgotten" about John and Gillian, and the lack of an acceptable "gap" for these stories to take place has often confounded fans interested in the timeline of the Doctor's life (an issue that would continue on through the [[Fourth Doctor comic stories|Fourth]] and [[Fifth Doctor comic stories|Fifth Doctor's comic adventures]]). Despite this, John and Gillian's adventures have not gone totally ignored by other stories, being briefly mentioned in such things as the [[BBC Audio]] story ''[[A Sting in the Tale (audio story)|A Sting in the Tale]]'' and the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] story ''[[The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas (short story)|The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas]]''.


The comic [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] wasn't actually much of a time-travel device. As almost every story was set in the far future, it was little more than a simple spaceship. That threw the First Doctor's inclination towards historical adventures out the window. In addition, his status as "grandfather" was a point of incredulity, as well. How could he be the grandfather to [[John and Gillian]]? What was their relationship to the never-referenced [[Susan Foreman|Susan]]? How did the stories told in the comic strips relate to the television series? These were all questions left completely unanswered.
The First Doctor also appeared in a series of ''[[Give-a-Show Projector]]'' stories in [[1965 (releases)|1965]], which featured the only comics to date of him battling the [[Dalek]]s. He would later be featured in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' adventures both in their main series and in specials.


Worse still, the comic First Doctor was deprived even of the [[Dalek]]s. Since [[Terry Nation]] had licensed the comic Daleks to appear only by themselves from [[1965]] to [[1967]], the comic First Doctor never encountered them. He was forced instead to repeatedly face the ''TV Comic'' "substitute", the [[Trod]]s.
== Comic strip companions of the First Doctor ==
=== Regular ===
* [[John Who|John]] and [[Gillian Who|Gillian]] ([[TV Comic]])
* [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] (''[[Give-a-Show Projector]]'', ''[[Doctor Who annual|Doctor Who Yearbook]]'', ''[[Prisoners of Time]]'')
 
=== One-off ===
* [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] (''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'')
* [[Ben Jackson]] and [[Polly Wright]] (''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'')
* [[Vicki Pallister]] (''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', ''[[Prisoners of Time]]'')
* [[Steven Taylor]] (''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'')
* [[Dodo Chaplet]] (''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'')
 
== List ==
Many of the early comic strip stories did not have individual story titles so there is no "correct" title for many of the strips. Commentary and listings from older sources may use variant titles.
* The titles given below conform to widely accepted titles (as referenced by [[Jean-Marc Lofficier]] and revised by [[John Ainsworth]] (comic historian)). The titles below were also adopted and used by ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' and throughout ''[[Doctor Who Classic Comics]]'' (to which John Ainsworth was a major contributer).
* The titles used below are firstly taken from the strip itself or from titles given by the preceding issue. In some cases the writer/artist has been able to provide a title for a given piece of work.
 
The listing below shows ''first'' publication details only. Reprint details can be found by following the story links.
 
=== ''TV Comic'' ===
{| {{prettytable}}
|-
! Title || Featuring || Printed in || Released
|-
|''[[The Klepton Parasites (comic story)|The Klepton Parasites]]''
|[[John Who|John]], [[Gillian Who|Gilliam]], [[Klepton]]s
|[[TVC 674|674]]-[[TVC 683|683]]
|[[9 November (releases)|9 November]] [[1964 (releases)|1964]]-[[11 January (releases)|11 January]] [[1965 (releases)|1965]]
|-
|''[[The Therovian Quest (comic story)|The Therovian Quest]]''
|rowspan=2|John, Gillian
|[[TVC 684|684]]-[[TVC 689|689]]
|[[16 January (releases)|16 January]] - [[22 February (releases)|22 February]] 1965
|-
|''[[The Hijackers of Thrax (comic story)|The Hijackers of Thrax]]''
|[[TVC 690|690]]-[[TVC 692|692]]
|[[1 March (releases)|1]] - [[15 March (releases)|15 March]] 1965
|-
|''[[On the Web Planet (comic story)|On the Web Planet]]''
|John, Gillian, [[Zarbi]]
|[[TVC 693|693]]-[[TVC 698|698]]
|[[22 March (releases)|22 March]] - [[26 April (releases)|26 April]] 1965
|-
|''[[The Gyros Injustice (comic story)|The Gyros Injustice]]''
|rowspan=12|John, Gillian
|[[TVC 699|699]]-[[TVC 704|704]]
|[[3 May (releases)|3 May]] - [[7 June (releases)|7 June]] 1965
|-
|''[[Challenge of the Piper (comic story)|Challenge of the Piper]]''
|[[TVC 705|705]]-[[TVC 709|709]]
|[[14 June (releases)|14 June]] - [[12 July (releases)|12 July]] 1965
|-
|''[[Moon Landing (comic story)|Moon Landing]]''
|[[TVC 710|710]]-[[TVC 712|712]]
|[[19 July (releases)|19 July]] - [[2 August (releases)|2 August]] 1965
|-
|''[[Time in Reverse (comic story)|Time in Reverse]]''
|[[TVC 713|713]]-[[TVC 715|715]]
|[[9 August (releases)|9]] - [[23 August (releases)|23 August]] 1965
|-
|''[[Lizardworld (comic story)|Lizardworld]]''
|[[TVC 716|716]]-[[TVC 719|719]]
|[[30 August (releases)|30 August]] - [[20 September (releases)|20 September]] 1965
|-
|''[[The Ordeals of Demeter (comic story)|The Ordeals of Demeter]]''
|[[TVC 720|720]]-[[TVC 723|723]]
|[[27 September (releases)|27 September]] - [[18 October (releases)|18 October]] 1965
|-
|''[[Enter: The Go-Ray (comic story)|Enter: The Go-Ray]]''
|[[TVC 724|724]]-[[TVC 727|727]]
|[[25 October (releases)|25 October]] - [[15 November (releases)|15 November]] 1965
|-
|''[[Shark Bait (TVC comic story)|Shark Bait]]''
|[[TVC 728|728]]-[[TVC 731|731]]
|[[22 November (releases)|22 November]] - [[13 December (releases)|13 December]] 1965
|-
|''[[A Christmas Story (comic story)|A Christmas Story]]''
|[[TVC 732|732]]-[[TVC 735|735]]
|[[20 December (releases)|20 December]] 1965 - [[10 January (releases)|10 January]] [[1966 (releases)|1966]]
|-
|''[[The Didus Expedition (comic story)|The Didus Expedition]]''
|[[TVC 736|736]]-[[TVC 739|739]]
|[[22 January (releases)|22 January]] - [[12 February (releases)|12 February]] 1966
|-
|''[[Space Station Z-7 (comic story)|Space Station Z-7]]''
|[[TVC 740|740]]-[[TVC 743|743]]
|[[19 February (releases)|19 February]] - [[12 March (releases)|12 March]] 1966
|-
|''[[Plague of the Black Scorpi (comic story)|Plague of the Black Scorpi]]''
|[[TVC 744|744]]-[[TVC 747|747]]
|[[19 March (releases)|19 March]] - [[9 April (releases)|9 April]] 1966
|-
|''[[The Trodos Tyranny (comic story)|The Trodos Tyranny]]''
|John, Gillian, Trods
|[[TVC 748|748]]-[[TVC 752|752]]
|[[16 April (releases)|16 April]] - [[14 May (releases)|14 May]] 1966
|-
|''[[The Secret of Gemino (comic story)|The Secret of Gemino]]''
|rowspan=4|John, Gillian
|[[TVC 753|753]]-[[TVC 757|757]]
|[[21 May (releases)|21 May]] - [[18 June (releases)|18 June]] 1966
|-
|''[[The Haunted Planet (comic story)|The Haunted Planet]]''
|[[TVC 758|758]]-[[TVC 762|762]]
|[[25 June (releases)|25 June]] - [[23 July (releases)|23 July]] 1966
|-
|''[[The Hunters of Zerox (comic story)|The Hunters of Zerox]]''
|[[TVC 763|763]]-[[TVC 767|767]]
|[[30 July (releases)|30 July]] - [[27 August (releases)|27 August]] 1966
|-
|''[[The Underwater Robot (comic story)|The Underwater Robot]]''
|[[TVC 768|768]]-[[TVC 771|771]]
|[[3 September (releases)|3]] - [[24 September (releases)|24 September]] 1966
|-
|''[[Return of the Trods (comic story)|Return of the Trods]]''
|John, Gillian, Trods
|[[TVC 772|772]]-[[TVC 775|775]]
|[[1 October (releases)|1]] - [[22 October (releases)|22 October]] 1966
|-
|''[[The Galaxy Games (comic story)|The Galaxy Games]]''
|rowspan=2|John, Gillian
|[[TVC 776|776]]-[[TVC 779|779]]
|[[29 October (releases)|29 October]] - [[19 November (releases)|19 November]] 1966
|-
|''[[The Experimenters (comic story)|The Experimenters]]''
|[[TVC 780|780]]-[[TVC 783|783]]
|[[26 November (releases)|26 November]] - [[17 December (releases)|17 December]] 1966
|}
 
=== ''TV Comic'' annuals ===
{| {{prettytable}}
|-
! Title || Featuring || Printed in || Released
|-
|''[[Prisoners of the Kleptons (comic story)|Prisoners of the Kleptons]]''
|[[John Who|John]], [[Gillian Who|Gillian]], [[Klepton]]s
|rowspan=2|[[TV Comic Annual 1966|Annual 1966]]
|rowspan=2|[[1 September (releases)|1 September]] [[1965 (releases)|1965]]
|-
|''[[The Caterpillar Men (comic story)|The Caterpillar Men]]''
|rowspan=3|John, Gillian
|-
|''[[Deadly Vessel (comic story)|Deadly Vessel]]''
|rowspan=2|[[TV Comic Annual 1967]]
|rowspan=2|1 September [[1966 (releases)|1966]]
|-
|''[[Kingdom of the Animals (comic story)|Kingdom of the Animals]]''
|}


The best the ''TV Comic'' First Doctor could muster by way of resembling himself was a lone story that tied in with an atypical television adventure: ''[[On the Web Planet|Dr. Who and the Zarbi on the Web Planet]]''.
=== ''TV Comic'' holiday specials ===
{| {{prettytable}}
|-
! Title || Featuring || Printed in || Released
|-
|''[[Prisoners of Gritog (comic story)|Prisoners of Gritog]]''
|rowspan=3|[[John Who|John]], [[Gillian Who|Gillian]]
|[[TV Comic Holiday Special 1965]]
|[[1 July (releases)|1 July]] [[1965 (releases)|1965]]
|-
|''[[Guests of King Neptune (comic story)|Guests of King Neptune]]''
|rowspan=2|[[TV Comic Holiday Special 1966]]
|rowspan=2|1 July [[1966 (releases)|1966]]
|-
|''[[The Gaze of the Gorgon (comic story)|The Gaze of the Gorgon]]''
|}


It really wasn't until ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' began publishing a handful of original First Doctor stories that the William Hartnell portrayal was really seen in comics. Consequently, most of the First Doctor's companions didn't have their comic debuts until the early 1990s. By then, thirty years after the fact, it was really a case of "too little, too late". Comic readers are ''still'' waiting for the First Doctor to encounter the Daleks.
=== ''Doctor Who'' annuals ===
{| {{prettytable}}
|-
! Title || Featuring || Printed in
|-
|''[[Mission for Duh (comic story)|Mission for Duh]]''
|
|[[Doctor Who Annual 1967]]
|}


Given these facts, it is perhaps not surprising that, as a matter of ''Doctor Who Magazine'' continuity, the entirety of the First Doctor's ''TV Comic'' run was [[Retroactive continuity|retconned]] out of existence as a dream of the [[Eighth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Land of Happy Endings (comic story)|The Land of Happy Endings]]'')
=== ''Doctor Who Magazine'' ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Title || Writer || Featuring || Printed in || Released
|-
|''[[Timeslip (comic story)|Timeslip]]''
|[[Dez Skinn]]
|[[Second Doctor]], [[Third Doctor]], [[Fourth Doctor]], [[K9 Mark II]]
|[[DWM 17|17]]-[[DWM 18|18]]
|[[31 January (releases)|31 January]] - [[7 February (releases)|7 February]] [[1980 (releases)|1980]]
|-
|''[[Funhouse (comic story)|Funhouse]]''
|[[Alan McKenzie]]
|[[Sixth Doctor]], [[Frobisher]]
|[[DWM 102|102]]-[[DWM 103|103]]
|[[13 June (releases)|13 June]] - [[11 July (releases)|11 July]] [[1985 (releases)|1985]]
|-
|''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]''
|[[Paul Cornell]]
|Seventh Doctor, [[Ace]], Benny, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, [[Fifth Doctor]], Sixth Doctor, [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]], [[Adric]], Frobisher, [[White Guardian]], [[Black Guardian]]
|[[DWM 207|207]]
|[[25 November (releases)|25 November]] [[1993 (releases)|1993]]
|-
|''[[Food for Thought (comic story)|Food for Thought]]''
|[[Nicholas Briggs]]
|[[Ben Jackson|Ben]], [[Polly Wright|Polly]]
|[[DWM 218|218]]-[[DWM 220|220]]
|[[29 September (releases)|29 September]] - [[24 November (releases)|24 November]] [[1994 (releases)|1994]]
|-
|''[[Operation Proteus (comic story)|Operation Proteus]]''
|[[Gareth Roberts]]
|Susan
|[[DWM 231|231]]-[[DWM 233|233]]
|[[28 September (releases)|28 September]] - [[23 November (releases)|23 November]] [[1995 (releases)|1995]]
|-
|''[[Happy Deathday (comic story)|Happy Deathday]]''
|[[Scott Gray]]
|Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Izzy Sinclair]]
|[[DWM 272|272]]
|[[19 November (releases)|19 November]] [[1998 (releases)|1998]]
|-
|''[[Death to the Doctor! (comic story)|Death to the Doctor!]]''
|[[Jonathan Morris]]
|Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Eighth Doctor, [[Ninth Doctor]], [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Steven Taylor|Steven]], [[Dodo Chaplet|Dodo]], [[Jo Grant|Jo]], [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brig]], [[Romana I]], K9 Mark II, Frobisher, Izzy, [[Rose Tyler|Rose]], [[Martha Jones|Martha]]
|[[DWM 390|390]]
|[[13 December (releases)|13 December]] - [[2007 (releases)|2007]]
|}


== Comic strip companions of the First Doctor ==
==== DWM Specials ====
=== Major ===
{| class="wikitable"
* [[John and Gillian]]
|-
! Title || Writer || Featuring || Printed in
|-
|''[[Flashback (comic story)|Flashback]]''
|rowspan=2|[[Scott Gray]]
|[[Seventh Doctor]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]
|[[DWMS Winter 1992]]
|-
|''[[Are You Listening? (comic story)|Are You Listening?]]''
|[[Vicki Pallister|Vicki]], [[Steven Taylor|Steven]]
|[[DWMS Summer 1994]]
|}


=== Minor ===
=== ''Doctor Who Yearbooks'' ===
* [[Susan Foreman|Susan]]
{| class="wikitable"
* [[Ian Chesterton]]
|-
* [[Barbara Wright]]
! Title || Writer || Featuring || Printed in
* [[Ben Jackson]]
|-
* [[Polly Wright|Polly]]
|''[[A Religious Experience (comic story)|A Religious Experience]]''
* [[Vicki]]
|[[Tim Quinn]]
* [[Steven Taylor|Steven]]
|[[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]], [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]]
|[[Doctor Who Yearbook 1994]]
|}


== List ==
=== IDW Publishing ===
Many of the early comic strip stories did not have individual story titles so there is no 'correct' title for many of the strips. Commentary and listings from older sources may use variant titles.
==== Miniseries ====
* The titles given below conform to widely accepted titles (as referenced by [[Jean-Marc Lofficier]] and revised by [[John Ainsworth]] (comic historian)). The titles below were also adopted and used by ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' and throughout ''[[Doctor Who Classic Comics]]'' (to which John Ainsworth was a major contributer).
{| class="wikitable"
* The titles used below are firstly taken from the strip itself or from titles given by the preceding issue. In some cases the writer/artist has been able to provide a title for a given piece of work.
|-
''The listing below shows ''first'' publication details only. Reprint details can be found by following the story links.''
! Title || Writer || Featuring || Printed in || Released
|-
|''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]''
|[[Tony Lee]]
|[[Second Doctor]], [[Third Doctor]], [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Ninth Doctor]], [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]], [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]], [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]], [[Jo Grant|Jo]], [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|The Brig]], [[John Benton|Benton]], [[Mike Yates|Yates]], [[Romana II]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]], [[Peri Brown|Peri]], [[Ace]], [[Rose Tyler|Rose]], [[Martha Jones|Martha]], [[Auton]]s, [[Judoon]], [[Clockwork Droid]]s, [[Kaldor android]]s, [[Es'Cartrss]]
|[[TF 1]] - [[TF 6|6]]
|[[20 August (releases)|20 August]] [[2008 (releases)|2008]] - [[21 January (releases)|21 January]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]]
|}


=== Doctor Who annuals ([[DWAN]]) ===
==== ''Doctor Who'' (2012) ====
* ''[[Mission for Duh]]'' (''Doctor Who Annual 1967'')
* ''[[Dead Man's Hand (comic story)|Dead Man's Hand]]'' (DW12 15 featuring Matrix projections of the first eleven Doctors and the War Doctor)


=== TV Comic ([[COMIC]]) ===
{| class="wikitable"
* ''[[The Klepton Parasites]]'' (TV Comic issues 674-683)
|-
* ''[[The Therovian Quest]]'' (TV Comic issues 684-689)
! Title || Writer || Featuring || Printed in || Released
* ''[[The Hijackers of Thrax]]'' (TV Comic issues 690-692)
|-
* ''[[On the Web Planet]]'' (TV Comic issues 693-698)
|''[[Dead Man's Hand (comic story)|Dead Man's Hand]]''
* ''[[The Gyros Injustice]]'' (TV Comic issues 699-704)
|[[Tony Lee]]
* ''[[Challenge of the Piper]]'' (TV Comic issues 705-709)
|[[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Clara Oswald|Clara]]
* ''[[Moon Landing]]'' (TV Comic issues 710-712)
|[[DW12 13]] - [[DW12 16|16]]
* ''[[Time in Reverse]]'' (TV Comic issues 713-715)
|[[18 September (releases)|18 September]] - [[4 December (releases)|4 December]] 2013
* ''[[Lizardworld]]'' (TV Comic issues 716-719)
|}
* ''[[The Ordeals of Demeter]]'' (TV Comic issues 720-723)
* ''[[Enter: The Go-Ray]]'' (TV Comic issues 724-727)
* ''[[Shark Bait (TVC comic story)|Shark Bait]]'' (TV Comic issues 728-731)
* ''[[A Christmas Story]]'' (TV Comic issues 732-735)
* ''[[The Didus Expedition]]'' (TV Comic issues 736-739)
* ''[[Space Station Z-7 (comic story)|Space Station Z-7]]'' (TV Comic issues 740-743)
* ''[[Plague of the Black Scorpi]]'' (TV Comic issues 744-747)
* ''[[The Trodos Tyranny]]'' (TV Comic issues 748-752)
* ''[[The Secret of Gemino]]'' (TV Comic issues 753-757)
* ''[[The Haunted Planet]]'' (TV Comic issues 758-762)
* ''[[The Hunters of Zerox]]'' (TV Comic issues 763-767)
* ''[[The Underwater Robot]]'' (TV Comic issues 768-771)
* ''[[Return of the Trods]]'' (TV Comic issues 772-775)
* ''[[The Galaxy Games]]'' (TV Comic issues 776-779)
* ''[[The Experimenters]]'' (TV Comic issues 780-783)


=== TV Comic Annuals ([[COMIC]]) ===
==== ''Prisoners of Time'' ====
* ''[[Prisoners of the Kleptons]]'' (TV Comic Annual 1966)
{| class="wikitable"
* ''[[The Caterpillar Men]]'' (TV Comic Annual 1966)
|-
* ''[[Deadly Vessel]]'' (TV Comic Annual 1967)
! Title || Writer || Featuring || Printed in || Released
* ''[[Kingdom of the Animals]]'' (TV Comic Annual 1967)
|-
|''[[Unnatural Selection (comic story)|Unnatural History]]''
|rowspan=2|[[Scott & David Tipton]]
|[[Ian Chesterton|Ian]], [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]], [[Vicki Pallister|Vicki]], [[Zarbi]], [[The Animus]]
|[[POT 1]]
|[[28 February (releases)|28 February]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]]
|-
|''[[Endgame (POT comic story)|Endgame]]''
|[[Second Doctor]], [[Third Doctor]], [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Ninth Doctor]], [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Eleventh Doctor]], all captured companions, [[Adam Mitchell|Adam]], {{Ainley|c}}
|[[POT 12]]
|[[20 November (releases)|20 November]] 2013
|}


=== TV Comic Holiday Specials ([[COMIC]]) ===
=== Titan Comics ===
* ''[[Prisoners of Gritog]]'' (TV Comic Holiday Special 1965)
==== ''Doctor Who: The First Doctor'' ====
* ''[[Guests of King Neptune]]'' (TV Comic Holiday Special 1966)
{| class="wikitable"
* ''[[The Gaze of the Gorgon]]'' (TV Comic Holiday Special 1966)
|-
! Title || Writer || Featuring || Released
|-
|''[[In-Between Times (comic story)|In-Between Times]]''
|[[Paul Cornell]]
|[[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]], [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]]
|[[26 September (releases)|26 September]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]]
|}


=== Doctor Who Magazine ([[DWM]]) ===
==== Miniseries ====
* ''[[Operation Proteus (comic story)|Operation Proteus]]'' (DWM issues 231-233 features [[Susan Foreman|Susan]])
* ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'' ([[TLD 8]])
* ''[[Food for Thought]]'' (DWM issues 218-220 features [[Ben Jackson]] and [[Polly Wright|Polly]])


== Seventh/First crossovers ==
==== Back-up strips ====
No doubt inspired by [[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', the Seventh/First "non-crossover" comic story deserves special mention. The basic setup of this type of story follows the pattern established in ''Remembrance'': the [[First Doctor]] does something in the past that the [[Seventh Doctor]] later revisits. The Doctors don't cross paths. The Seventh Doctor doesn't "de-age" into the First. It's just a simple look into the past. There have been three examples of this kind of story.
* ''[[Day of the Tune (comic story)|Day of the Tune]]'' ([[12D 9]], a flashback featuring the first Four Doctors)
=== Doctor Who Magazine Special ([[DWMS]]) ===
* ''[[Prologue: The First Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The First Doctor]]'' ([[10DY2 12]] featuring [[Susan Foreman]])
* ''[[Flashback (comic story)|Flashback]]'' ([[DWMS Winter 1992|Winter 1992]], features [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] and the Seventh Doctor viewing a holographic recording of the First Doctor before he left [[Gallifrey]])
* ''[[Are You Listening?]]'' ([[DWMS Summer 1993|Summer 1993]], features [[Steven Taylor|Steven]] and [[Vicki]], resolved in the Seventh Doctor story ''[[Younger and Wiser]]'')


=== Doctor Who Yearbook ([[DWY]]) ===
==== ''The Many Lives of Doctor Who'' ====
* ''[[A Religious Experience]]'' ([[Doctor Who Yearbook 1994|1994]], principally features a story with the First Doctor, [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] and [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]], but ends with a latter-day visit to the setting of the First Doctor story by the companionless Seventh Doctor.)
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Title || Writer || Featuring || Printed in || Released
|-
|''[[The Path of Skulls (comic story)|The Path of Skulls]]''
|[[Richard Dinnick]]
|[[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]], [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]]
|[[13D 0]]
|[[26 September (releases)|26 September]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]]
|}


== Multi-Doctor appearances ==
== Parody ==
Since [[William Hartnell|Hartnell]] relinquished the role, the [[First Doctor]] has generally appeared in multi-Doctor comic stories, in which other versions of himself have appeared alongside him. They have taken one of three approaches. Either they've featured serious attempts at justifying the reappearance of the First Doctor, they've been flat parodies. or they've been a little bit of both.
* [[Dr. What and His Time Clock (comic story)|''Dr. What and His Time Clock'']]
=== Non-parodic ===
* [[Pugwash Ahoy! (comic story)|''Pugwash Ahoy!'']], a crossover with [[Captain Pugwash (series)|''Captain Pugwash'']]
* ''[[Timeslip]]''
* [[An Unearthly Child: The Unscreened Edition (comic story)|''An Unearthly Child: The Unscreened Edition'']] featuring [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]], and [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]].
* (the ''DWM'' version of) ''[[Funhouse (comic story)|Fun House]]''
* [[Doctor Ooh|''Doctor Ooh'']], published in ''Mad'' magazine
* ''[[Time & Time Again]]''
* ''[[Comic Relief Comic (comic story)|Comic Relief Comic]]'' (untitled story)
=== Parodic ===
* "[[Doctor Ooh]]"
* ''[[The Comic Relief Comic]]'' (untitled story)
* ''[[It's Bigger on the Inside!]]''
* ''[[It's Bigger on the Inside!]]''
* numerous editions of the three-panel cartoon, ''[[Doctor Who?]]''
* Numerous editions of the three-panel cartoon, ''[[Doctor Who? (comic series)|Doctor Who?]]''
 
=== Mixture ===
* ''[[Happy Deathday (comic story)|Happy Deathday]]'' (the story does fit into [[Eighth Doctor]]/[[Izzy]] continuity, but it takes place inside a video game Izzy's playing on the [[Time-Space Visualiser]]
* ''[[Death to the Doctor!]]''
== First Doctor-only parody ==
* "[[An Unearthly Child (The Unscreened Edition)]]" featured only the original TARDIS crew.


== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.alteredvistas.co.uk/html/first_doctor.html Altered Vistas - In the Comics - The First Doctor]
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Latest revision as of 20:47, 3 November 2024

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The first appearance of the Doctor in the comic medium. (COMIC: The Klepton Parasites)

As with the television series, the William Hartnell's First Doctor was the original comic strip Doctor.

The first Doctor Who comics to be printed were those featured in TV Comic. Consistently labeled as little more than the series' title for the entire run, all but one of the original First Doctor stories were given titles much later by comic strip and Who historians. The original comics introduced the characters of the Doctor's grandchildren, John and Gillian, who served as the strip's replacements to Susan Foreman. The strip introduced them as having lived on 20th century Earth before meeting their grandfather, but never expounded on their origins before the comic, nor their relation to Susan. Because of this, stories exploring the Doctor's family or history on Gallifrey have almost consistently "forgotten" about John and Gillian, and the lack of an acceptable "gap" for these stories to take place has often confounded fans interested in the timeline of the Doctor's life (an issue that would continue on through the Fourth and Fifth Doctor's comic adventures). Despite this, John and Gillian's adventures have not gone totally ignored by other stories, being briefly mentioned in such things as the BBC Audio story A Sting in the Tale and the Short Trips story The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas.

The First Doctor also appeared in a series of Give-a-Show Projector stories in 1965, which featured the only comics to date of him battling the Daleks. He would later be featured in Doctor Who Magazine adventures both in their main series and in specials.

Comic strip companions of the First Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Regular[[edit] | [edit source]]

One-off[[edit] | [edit source]]

List[[edit] | [edit source]]

Many of the early comic strip stories did not have individual story titles so there is no "correct" title for many of the strips. Commentary and listings from older sources may use variant titles.

  • The titles given below conform to widely accepted titles (as referenced by Jean-Marc Lofficier and revised by John Ainsworth (comic historian)). The titles below were also adopted and used by Doctor Who Magazine and throughout Doctor Who Classic Comics (to which John Ainsworth was a major contributer).
  • The titles used below are firstly taken from the strip itself or from titles given by the preceding issue. In some cases the writer/artist has been able to provide a title for a given piece of work.

The listing below shows first publication details only. Reprint details can be found by following the story links.

TV Comic[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title Featuring Printed in Released
The Klepton Parasites John, Gilliam, Kleptons 674-683 9 November 1964-11 January 1965
The Therovian Quest John, Gillian 684-689 16 January - 22 February 1965
The Hijackers of Thrax 690-692 1 - 15 March 1965
On the Web Planet John, Gillian, Zarbi 693-698 22 March - 26 April 1965
The Gyros Injustice John, Gillian 699-704 3 May - 7 June 1965
Challenge of the Piper 705-709 14 June - 12 July 1965
Moon Landing 710-712 19 July - 2 August 1965
Time in Reverse 713-715 9 - 23 August 1965
Lizardworld 716-719 30 August - 20 September 1965
The Ordeals of Demeter 720-723 27 September - 18 October 1965
Enter: The Go-Ray 724-727 25 October - 15 November 1965
Shark Bait 728-731 22 November - 13 December 1965
A Christmas Story 732-735 20 December 1965 - 10 January 1966
The Didus Expedition 736-739 22 January - 12 February 1966
Space Station Z-7 740-743 19 February - 12 March 1966
Plague of the Black Scorpi 744-747 19 March - 9 April 1966
The Trodos Tyranny John, Gillian, Trods 748-752 16 April - 14 May 1966
The Secret of Gemino John, Gillian 753-757 21 May - 18 June 1966
The Haunted Planet 758-762 25 June - 23 July 1966
The Hunters of Zerox 763-767 30 July - 27 August 1966
The Underwater Robot 768-771 3 - 24 September 1966
Return of the Trods John, Gillian, Trods 772-775 1 - 22 October 1966
The Galaxy Games John, Gillian 776-779 29 October - 19 November 1966
The Experimenters 780-783 26 November - 17 December 1966

TV Comic annuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title Featuring Printed in Released
Prisoners of the Kleptons John, Gillian, Kleptons Annual 1966 1 September 1965
The Caterpillar Men John, Gillian
Deadly Vessel TV Comic Annual 1967 1 September 1966
Kingdom of the Animals

TV Comic holiday specials[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title Featuring Printed in Released
Prisoners of Gritog John, Gillian TV Comic Holiday Special 1965 1 July 1965
Guests of King Neptune TV Comic Holiday Special 1966 1 July 1966
The Gaze of the Gorgon

Doctor Who annuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title Featuring Printed in
Mission for Duh Doctor Who Annual 1967

Doctor Who Magazine[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title Writer Featuring Printed in Released
Timeslip Dez Skinn Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, K9 Mark II 17-18 31 January - 7 February 1980
Funhouse Alan McKenzie Sixth Doctor, Frobisher 102-103 13 June - 11 July 1985
Time & Time Again Paul Cornell Seventh Doctor, Ace, Benny, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Susan, Jamie, Zoe, Adric, Frobisher, White Guardian, Black Guardian 207 25 November 1993
Food for Thought Nicholas Briggs Ben, Polly 218-220 29 September - 24 November 1994
Operation Proteus Gareth Roberts Susan 231-233 28 September - 23 November 1995
Happy Deathday Scott Gray Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Izzy Sinclair 272 19 November 1998
Death to the Doctor! Jonathan Morris Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Steven, Dodo, Jo, the Brig, Romana I, K9 Mark II, Frobisher, Izzy, Rose, Martha 390 13 December - 2007

DWM Specials[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title Writer Featuring Printed in
Flashback Scott Gray Seventh Doctor, Benny DWMS Winter 1992
Are You Listening? Vicki, Steven DWMS Summer 1994

Doctor Who Yearbooks[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title Writer Featuring Printed in
A Religious Experience Tim Quinn Seventh Doctor, Ian, Barbara Doctor Who Yearbook 1994

IDW Publishing[[edit] | [edit source]]

Miniseries[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title Writer Featuring Printed in Released
The Forgotten Tony Lee Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Ian, Barbara, Susan, Jamie, Zoe, Jo, The Brig, Benton, Yates, Romana II, Tegan, Turlough, Peri, Ace, Rose, Martha, Autons, Judoon, Clockwork Droids, Kaldor androids, Es'Cartrss TF 1 - 6 20 August 2008 - 21 January 2009

Doctor Who (2012)[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Dead Man's Hand (DW12 15 featuring Matrix projections of the first eleven Doctors and the War Doctor)
Title Writer Featuring Printed in Released
Dead Man's Hand Tony Lee Eleventh Doctor, Clara DW12 13 - 16 18 September - 4 December 2013

Prisoners of Time[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title Writer Featuring Printed in Released
Unnatural History Scott & David Tipton Ian, Barbara, Vicki, Zarbi, The Animus POT 1 28 February 2013
Endgame Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, all captured companions, Adam, The Tremas Master POT 12 20 November 2013

Titan Comics[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who: The First Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title Writer Featuring Released
In-Between Times Paul Cornell Susan, Ian, Barbara 26 September 2018

Miniseries[[edit] | [edit source]]

Back-up strips[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Many Lives of Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title Writer Featuring Printed in Released
The Path of Skulls Richard Dinnick Susan, Ian, Barbara 13D 0 26 September 2018

Parody[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

 
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