Sixth Doctor comic stories

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The vast majority of Sixth Doctor comic stories were published in Doctor Who Magazine in the mid-1980s and began on the heels of the transmission of The Twin Dilemma.

The Sixth Doctor's comic book history has unique aspects. He is the only Doctor to star in a series of Doctor Who but not to appear in a comic strip in a Doctor Who annual. He is also the only Doctor to be featured in "incentive comic books" given away with the purchase of food, the first Doctor to be the subject of an original graphic novel and the only Doctor to have comics written by the actor who portrayed him.

DWM launched the Sixth Doctor's comic strip adventures with the Doctor travelling on his own. His first story introduced a new companion, Frobisher — the shape-changing Whifferdill who often assumed the form of a penguin. Image rights were later obtained for Nicola Bryant, which allowed Peri to become the first humanoid televised companion regularly used in the pages of DWM. The writers even went to the trouble of trying to explain her earlier absence. Apparently, she took time away from the TARDIS to explore New York City. Since she remained the companion up to the final story of the regular run, the 1980s Sixth Doctor comics all happened somewhere between The Twin Dilemma and Mindwarp.

Because the Sixth Doctor's era began at the end of season 21, and the Seventh Doctor's DWM start was delayed by Grant Morrison's epic death-of-Jamie McCrimmon story line, the Sixth Doctor's regular era in DWM comics contains significantly more stories than his televised run. Moreover, he has a few additional stories which were published after Colin Baker was no longer incumbent in the role.

Nevertheless, the Sixth Doctor has one of the briefer comic runs of all the Doctors, with only the Fifth Doctor and Ninth Doctor appearing in fewer total comic stories.

Comic strip companions of the Sixth Doctor

Regular

• Frobisher (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Peri Brown (Doctor Who Magazine)

One-off

• Jamie McCrimmon (Doctor Who Magazine)

• Melanie Bush (Prologue: The Sixth Doctor)

List

Doctor Who Magazine

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in	Released
The Shape Shifter	Steve Parkhouse	Frobisher, Josiah W. Dogbolter, Hob	88-89	12 April - 10 May 1984
Voyager		Frobisher, Astrolabus	90-94	14 June - 11 October 1984
Polly the Glot		Frobisher, Ivan Asimoff, Astolabus	95-97	8 November 1984 - 10 January 1985
Once Upon a Time Lord		Frobisher, Astrolabus	98-99	7 February - 7 March 1985
War-Game	Alan McKenzie	Frobisher	100-101	4 April - 9 May 1985
Funhouse			102-103	13 June - 11 July 1985
Kane's Story		Peri, Frobisher, Skeletoids	104	8 August 1985
Abel's Story		Peri, Frobisher, Abel Gantz, Skeletoids	105	12 September 1985
The Warrior's Story			106	10 October 1985
Frobisher's Story			107	14 November 1985
Exodus		Peri, Frobisher	108	12 December 1985
Revelation!		Peri, Frobisher, Cybermen	109	16 January 1986
Genesis!	Alan McKenzie (adapted by John Ridgway)		110	13 February 1986
Nature of the Beast!	Simon Furman	Peri, Frobisher	111-113	13 March - 8 May 1986
Time Bomb	Jamie Delano	Frobisher	114-116	12 June - 7 August 1986
Salad Daze	Simon Furman	Peri	117	11 September 1986
Changes	Grant Morrison	Peri, Frobisher	118-119	9 October - 13 November 1986
Profits of Doom!	Mike Collins		120-122	11 December 1986 - 12 February 1987
The Gift	Jamie Delano		123-126	12 March - 11 June 1987
The World Shapers	Grant Morrison	Peri, Frobisher, Jamie	127-129	9 July - 10 September 1987
Emperor of the Daleks!	Paul Cornell	Seventh Doctor, Benny, Peri, Abslom Daak, Harma, Salander, Davros, Dalek Emperor	197-202	18 February - 8 July 1993
Time & Time Again		Seventh Doctor, Ace, Benny, First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Susan, Jamie, Zoe, Adric, Frobisher, White Guardian, Black Guardian	207	25 November 1993
Up Above the Gods	Richard Alan	Davros	227	8 June 1995

Doctor Who Magazine Specials

Title	Writer	Featuring
The Age of Chaos	Colin Baker	Frobisher, Peri

Doctor Who Marvel Adventure Comic

• The Doctor Who Marvel Adventure Comic was a series of six mini-issues given away with the purchase of Golden Wonder bread. The monochromatic pamphlet contained somewhat edited versions of a few stories that had already appeared in the pages of Doctor Who Magazine. They cause some complications for people truly obsessed about canon, as there are some significant changes to some of the stories. For instance, Peri is completely removed from the DWMAC version of one of the stories.

IDW Publishing

Miniseries

• The Forgotten (TF 4 featuring Peri Brown, 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

• Façades (POT 6 featuring Peri Brown and Frobisher)
• Endgame (POT 12 featuring Peri Brown, Frobisher and Melanie Bush, the first eleven Doctors (save the War Doctor), and numerous other companions)

Titan Comics

Miniseries

• The Lost Dimension (TLD 2 and 8)

Back-up strips

• Prologue: The Sixth Doctor (11DY2 11 featuring Melanie Bush)

External links

• Altered Vistas - In the Comics - The Sixth Doctor
• Doctor Who Magazine - Sixth Doctor Strips at the Doctor Who Reference Guide