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Titan returned to the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' franchise when it was announced in late [[2013 (production)|2013]] that its American subsidiary had picked up the North American licence to publish original comics based upon ''Doctor Who'' after the expiry of [[IDW Publishing]]'s contract with [[BBC Worldwide]].<ref>[http://www.sfx.co.uk/2014/01/21/titan-wins-doctor-who-comics-licence/ Edwards, Richard. "Titan Wins Doctor Who Comics Licence." ''SFX Magazine''. 21 January 2014.]</ref> | Titan returned to the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' franchise when it was announced in late [[2013 (production)|2013]] that its American subsidiary had picked up the North American licence to publish original comics based upon ''Doctor Who'' after the expiry of [[IDW Publishing]]'s contract with [[BBC Worldwide]].<ref>[http://www.sfx.co.uk/2014/01/21/titan-wins-doctor-who-comics-licence/ Edwards, Richard. "Titan Wins Doctor Who Comics Licence." ''SFX Magazine''. 21 January 2014.]</ref> | ||
Titan Comics then began their ''Doctor Who'' run in [[July (releases)|July]] of [[2014 (releases)|2014]] with the publication of ''[[Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor]]'', followed by the launch of ''[[Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor]]'' in [[October (releases)|October]] 2014.<ref>[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=51164 Sunu, Steve. "Titan Follows the Tenth & Eleventh Doctors in New 'Doctor Who' Series. comicbookresources.com. 28 Feburary 2014.]</ref> Many issues of the second year of ''Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor'' featured the [[War Doctor]] instead of the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as the headlining Doctor. ''[[Doctor Who: The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor]]'' featured an original story with the [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]], [[Eleventh Doctor|Eleventh]], and [[Twelfth Doctor]] and a serialised story with those Doctors, which led into ''[[Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor]]''. | Titan Comics then began their ''Doctor Who'' run in [[July (releases)|July]] of [[2014 (releases)|2014]] with the publication of ''[[Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor]]'', followed by the launch of ''[[Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor]]'' in [[October (releases)|October]] 2014.<ref>[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=51164 Sunu, Steve. "Titan Follows the Tenth & Eleventh Doctors in New 'Doctor Who' Series. comicbookresources.com. 28 Feburary 2014.]</ref> Titan hoped to publish a Twelfth Doctor story featuring the [[Dalek]]s, but it never materialised. Concept pages were commissioned and drawn by [[Brian Williamson]].<ref>https://downthetubes.net/daleks-debut-at-last-in-titan-comics-doctor-who-time-lord-victorious-tie-in/</ref> | ||
Many issues of the second year of ''Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor'' featured the [[War Doctor]] instead of the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as the headlining Doctor. ''[[Doctor Who: The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor]]'' featured an original story with the [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]], [[Eleventh Doctor|Eleventh]], and [[Twelfth Doctor]] and a serialised story with those Doctors, which led into ''[[Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor]]''. | |||
All three series have been published concurrently in North American comic book shops, with digital editions available for purchase in Europe and the United States. In the United Kingdom, ''[[Doctor Who Comic (2015)|Doctor Who Comic]]'', which had all three of these ongoing series inside, launched in [[February (releases)|February]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]]. It was companioned by ''[[Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS]]'', which reprinted miniseries stories, but eventually grew to print main series stories, succeeding ''Doctor Who Comic''. | All three series have been published concurrently in North American comic book shops, with digital editions available for purchase in Europe and the United States. In the United Kingdom, ''[[Doctor Who Comic (2015)|Doctor Who Comic]]'', which had all three of these ongoing series inside, launched in [[February (releases)|February]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]]. It was companioned by ''[[Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS]]'', which reprinted miniseries stories, but eventually grew to print main series stories, succeeding ''Doctor Who Comic''. | ||
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Titan Comics also republished [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] ''Doctor Who'' comic stories in ''[[The Tenth Doctor Archives]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Doctor Archives]]'', and ''[[Doctor Who Archives: Prisoners of Time]]''. | Titan Comics also republished [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] ''Doctor Who'' comic stories in ''[[The Tenth Doctor Archives]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Doctor Archives]]'', and ''[[Doctor Who Archives: Prisoners of Time]]''. | ||
== Reader's Guides == | |||
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Titan Comics Reader's Guide 2018.jpg|2018 Reader's Guide | |||
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Titan Comics Reader's Guide 2023.jpg|2023 Reader's Guide | |||
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== List of series == | == List of series == | ||
=== Ongoing === | === Ongoing === | ||
{| {{Prettytable}} | |||
!Title | |||
!Start | |||
!Finish | |||
!Notes | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor]]'' | |||
| rowspan="2" | [[23 July (releases)|23 July]] [[2014 (releases)|2014]] | |||
|[[7 March (releases)|7 March]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]] | |||
|46 issues across three years. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor]]'' | |||
|[[10 January (releases)|10 January]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]] | |||
|43 issues across three years. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor]]'' | |||
|[[15 October (releases)|15 October]] [[2014 (releases)|2014]] | |||
|[[14 March (releases)|14 March]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]] | |||
|44 issues across three years. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor]]'' | |||
|[[14 April (releases)|14 April]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]] | |||
|[[9 August (releases)|9 August]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]] | |||
|15 issues, not including the original miniseries. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor]]'' | |||
|[[26 September (releases)|26 September]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]] | |||
|[[20 May (releases)|20 May]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]] | |||
|17 issues across two years. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Doctor Who (2020)|Doctor Who Comic]]'' | |||
|[[18 November (releases)|18 November]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]] | |||
|Ongoing | |||
| | |||
|} | |||
=== Miniseries === | === Miniseries === | ||
{| {{Prettytable}} | |||
!Title | |||
!Start | |||
!Finish | |||
!Notes | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor]]'' | |||
|[[1 April (releases)|1 April]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]] | |||
|[[2 December (releases)|2 December]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]] | |||
|5 issues. Followed by an ongoing series. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor]]'' | |||
|[[4 November (releases)|4 November]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]] | |||
|[[16 March (releases)|16 March]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]] | |||
|5 issues. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor]]'' | |||
|[[23 March (releases)|23 March]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]] | |||
|[[28 September (releases)|28 September]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]] | |||
|5 issues. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Doctor Who: The Third Doctor]]'' | |||
|[[14 September (releases)|14 September]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]] | |||
|[[27 February (releases)|27 February]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]] | |||
|5 issues. | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Ghost Stories (comic story)|Ghost Stories]]'' | |||
|[[26 December (releases)|26 December]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]] (digital) | |||
|[[22 May (releases)|22 May]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]] (diginal) | |||
|8 digital issues. | |||
|- | |||
|[[5 April (releases)|5 April]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]] (print) | |||
|[[5 July (releases)|5 July]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]] (print) | |||
|4 print issues. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor]]'' | |||
|[[6 June (releases)|6 June]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]] | |||
|[[1 August (releases)|1 August]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]] | |||
|3 issues. | |||
|- | |||
|[[Doctor Who: The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor]]'' | |||
|[[11 July (releases)|11 July]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]] | |||
|[[12 September (releases)|12 September]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]] | |||
|3 issues. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Holiday Special]]'' | |||
|[[13 November (releases)|13 November]] ([[2019 (releases)|2019]] | |||
|[[18 December (releases)|18 December]] [[2019 (releases)|2019]] | |||
|2 issues. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Time Lord Victorious (Titan)|Time Lord Victorious]]'' | |||
|[[2 September (releases)|2 September]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]] | |||
|[[7 October (releases)|7 October]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]] | |||
|2 issues. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Doom's Day (series)|Doom's Day]]'' | |||
|[[5 July (releases)|5 July]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] | |||
|[[26 July (releases)|26 July]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] | |||
|2 issues. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor]]'' | |||
|[[3 July (releases)|3 July]] [[2024 (releases)|2024]] | |||
|Ongoing. | |||
|4 issues. | |||
|} | |||
=== | === Events === | ||
{| {{Prettytable}} | |||
!Title | |||
!Start | |||
!Finish | |||
!Notes | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'' | |||
|[[19 August (releases)|19 August]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]] | |||
|[[23 September (releases)|23 September]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]] | |||
|4 issues. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'' | |||
|[[6 July (releases)|6 July]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]] | |||
|[[16 November (releases)|16 November]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]] | |||
|5 issues. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'' | |||
|[[30 August (releases)|30 August]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]] | |||
|[[1 November (releases)|1 November]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]] | |||
|8 issues, encompassing an issue each of the ''[[Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor|The Tenth Doctor]]'', ''[[Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor|The Eleventh Doctor]]'', and ''[[Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor|The Twelfth Doctor]]'', and 4 specials. | |||
|} | |||
=== Spin-offs and other titles === | === Spin-offs and other titles === | ||
{| {{Prettytable}} | |||
!Title | |||
!Start | |||
!Finish | |||
!Notes | |||
|- | |||
|[[Free Comic Book Day]] specials | |||
|[[2 May (releases)|2 May]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]] | |||
|[[4 May (releases)|4 May]] [[2024 (releases)|2024]] | |||
|7 issues to date. | |||
|- | |||
|[[San Diego Comic-Con]] specials | |||
|[[11 July (releases)|11 July]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]] | |||
|[[22 July (releases)|22 July]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]] | |||
|3 issues. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Torchwood (2016)|Torchwood]]'' | |||
|[[4 August (releases)|4 August]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]] | |||
|[[14 February (releases)|14 February]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]] | |||
|12 issues across three miniseries. | |||
|- | |||
|''[[Once Upon a Time Lord (graphic novel)|Once Upon a Time Lord]]'' | |||
|[[7 November (releases)|7 November]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] | |||
|N/A | |||
|One-shot special. | |||
|} | |||
== UK Mix Magazines == | == UK Mix Magazines == | ||
* ''[[Doctor Who Comic (2015)|Doctor Who Comic]]'' ([[6 February (releases)|6 February]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]] - [[26 February (releases)|26 February]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]]) | * ''[[Doctor Who Comic (2015)|Doctor Who Comic]]'' ([[6 February (releases)|6 February]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]] - [[26 February (releases)|26 February]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]]) | ||
* ''[[Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS]]'' ([[17 December (releases)|17 December]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]] - | * ''[[Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS]]'' ([[17 December (releases)|17 December]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]] - [[5 November (releases)|5 November]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]]) | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:27, 20 November 2024
Titan Publishing Group — parent company to both Titan Books and Titan Comics — is a book and magazine publishing company which has enjoyed several different BBC Worldwide licenses to publish various DWU tie-in works.
In the 1990s, they published a number of Doctor Who scripts in the Doctor Who: The Scripts series, and thus gave fans their first glimpse at "official" versions of the scripts of some of the show's more popular serials, including the first publication of the unproduced script for The Masters of Luxor. These books were produced for the UK market but also received limited distribution in North America.
Torchwood[[edit] | [edit source]]
From 2008 to 2010, Titan published Torchwood The Official Magazine, featuring behind-the-scenes articles and original comic strips and short stories based on the spinoff. Publications spun-off from the magazine included a graphic novel compiling the story arc COMIC: Rift War and the hardcover publication Torchwood The Official Magazine Yearbook in 2008. As with the script books, the magazine and spin-off publications were primarily produced for the UK market but were imported to North America by speciality retailers.
From the summer of 2010 to early 2011, Titan's American branch published Torchwood: The Official Comic, which ran for six issues and reprinted most of the magazine's comic strips and short stories for North American audiences.[1] The first issue was cover-dated September 2010, but distributed in the summer. This comic was distributed in North America but not in the UK.
In issue #24 of Torchwood Magazine, Titan announced that due to BBC Worldwide realigning its promotions for Torchwood related to the 2011 broadcast of TV: Miracle Day, it was discontinuing publication of the magazine effective with issue #25. The US Torchwood comic was also cancelled before it was able to reprint all of the magazine's comic strips and short stories.
Titan once again began publishing Torchwood material with the advent of Torchwood (2016), a wholly original comic book.
Doctor Who comics[[edit] | [edit source]]
Titan returned to the Doctor Who franchise when it was announced in late 2013 that its American subsidiary had picked up the North American licence to publish original comics based upon Doctor Who after the expiry of IDW Publishing's contract with BBC Worldwide.[2]
Titan Comics then began their Doctor Who run in July of 2014 with the publication of Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor and Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor, followed by the launch of Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor in October 2014.[3] Titan hoped to publish a Twelfth Doctor story featuring the Daleks, but it never materialised. Concept pages were commissioned and drawn by Brian Williamson.[4]
Many issues of the second year of Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor featured the War Doctor instead of the Eleventh Doctor as the headlining Doctor. Doctor Who: The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor featured an original story with the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctor and a serialised story with those Doctors, which led into Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor.
All three series have been published concurrently in North American comic book shops, with digital editions available for purchase in Europe and the United States. In the United Kingdom, Doctor Who Comic, which had all three of these ongoing series inside, launched in February 2015. It was companioned by Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS, which reprinted miniseries stories, but eventually grew to print main series stories, succeeding Doctor Who Comic.
Titan released a limited-run five-issue series Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor (released April-December 2015) to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Ninth Doctor's first appearance in the episode Rose. A year later, it was renewed as an ongoing series. The Ninth Doctor miniseries was followed by similar five-issue miniseries Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor (released November 2015 - March 2016), Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor (released March-September 2016), Doctor Who: The Third Doctor (released September 2016 - February 2017) and Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor (released June - August 2018).
The ongoing Doctor Who comic books have crossed over in three miniseries events: Four Doctors in August - September 2015, Supremacy of the Cybermen in July - November 2016, and The Lost Dimension in August - October 2017. Titan has also published a few one-shots for special occasions: Free Comic Book Day 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 as well as San Diego Comic-Con specials in 2015, 2016, and 2017. The Twelfth Doctor also re-encountered Grant and Lucy Fletcher in Ghost Stories, a digital (later physical) comic miniseries from 2016 to 2017.
Titan Comics also republished IDW Doctor Who comic stories in The Tenth Doctor Archives, The Eleventh Doctor Archives, and Doctor Who Archives: Prisoners of Time.
Reader's Guides[[edit] | [edit source]]
List of series[[edit] | [edit source]]
Ongoing[[edit] | [edit source]]
Title | Start | Finish | Notes |
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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor | 23 July 2014 | 7 March 2018 | 46 issues across three years. |
Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor | 10 January 2018 | 43 issues across three years. | |
Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor | 15 October 2014 | 14 March 2018 | 44 issues across three years. |
Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor | 14 April 2016 | 9 August 2017 | 15 issues, not including the original miniseries. |
Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor | 26 September 2018 | 20 May 2020 | 17 issues across two years. |
Doctor Who Comic | 18 November 2020 | Ongoing |
Miniseries[[edit] | [edit source]]
Title | Start | Finish | Notes |
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Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor | 1 April 2015 | 2 December 2015 | 5 issues. Followed by an ongoing series. |
Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor | 4 November 2015 | 16 March 2016 | 5 issues. |
Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor | 23 March 2016 | 28 September 2016 | 5 issues. |
Doctor Who: The Third Doctor | 14 September 2016 | 27 February 2017 | 5 issues. |
Ghost Stories | 26 December 2016 (digital) | 22 May 2017 (diginal) | 8 digital issues. |
5 April 2017 (print) | 5 July 2017 (print) | 4 print issues. | |
Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor | 6 June 2018 | 1 August 2018 | 3 issues. |
Doctor Who: The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor | 11 July 2018 | 12 September 2018 | 3 issues. |
Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Holiday Special | 13 November (2019 | 18 December 2019 | 2 issues. |
Time Lord Victorious | 2 September 2020 | 7 October 2020 | 2 issues. |
Doom's Day | 5 July 2023 | 26 July 2023 | 2 issues. |
Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor | 3 July 2024 | Ongoing. | 4 issues. |
Events[[edit] | [edit source]]
Title | Start | Finish | Notes |
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Four Doctors | 19 August 2015 | 23 September 2015 | 4 issues. |
Supremacy of the Cybermen | 6 July 2016 | 16 November 2016 | 5 issues. |
The Lost Dimension | 30 August 2017 | 1 November 2017 | 8 issues, encompassing an issue each of the The Tenth Doctor, The Eleventh Doctor, and The Twelfth Doctor, and 4 specials. |
Spin-offs and other titles[[edit] | [edit source]]
Title | Start | Finish | Notes |
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Free Comic Book Day specials | 2 May 2015 | 4 May 2024 | 7 issues to date. |
San Diego Comic-Con specials | 11 July 2015 | 22 July 2017 | 3 issues. |
Torchwood | 4 August 2016 | 14 February 2018 | 12 issues across three miniseries. |
Once Upon a Time Lord | 7 November 2023 | N/A | One-shot special. |
UK Mix Magazines[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Doctor Who Comic (6 February 2015 - 26 February 2016)
- Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS (17 December 2015 - 5 November 2020)
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ ComicVine entry for 'Torchwood: The Official Comic'
- ↑ Edwards, Richard. "Titan Wins Doctor Who Comics Licence." SFX Magazine. 21 January 2014.
- ↑ Sunu, Steve. "Titan Follows the Tenth & Eleventh Doctors in New 'Doctor Who' Series. comicbookresources.com. 28 Feburary 2014.
- ↑ https://downthetubes.net/daleks-debut-at-last-in-titan-comics-doctor-who-time-lord-victorious-tie-in/
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