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== Overview ==
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* The '''Sixth Doctor Comic Strip Stories''' were published in [[Doctor Who Magazine]] ([[DWM]]) throughout [[Colin Baker]]'s tenure as the [[Sixth Doctor]] and also provided Doctor Who stories to fans during the show's hiatus (between [[1985]] and [[1986]]).
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* The Doctor Who Magazine launched the Fifth Doctor's comic strip adventures with the Doctor travelling on his own.His first story introduced [[Frobisher]] the shape changing penguin companion who subsequently appeared with the [[Seventh Doctor]] and also appeared in two [[Big Finish - Doctor Who Audio Dramas]] and [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]].
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 (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]''.
* Image rights were later obtained for Nicola Bryant and the companion Peri joined the Doctor and Frobisher's  adventures.
* While most of the adventures occur within their own continuity, direct references to the television series make placing these adventures into on-screen continuity problematic.
* While Doctor Who Magazine mostly used the current Doctor in their regular comic strip adventures, subsequent Fifth Doctor comic strip stories have appeared from time to time in the regular magazine, specials and in other publications.


== Comic Strip Companions of the Sixth Doctor ==
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|''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.
* [[Frobisher]]
* [[Peri]]
* [[Jamie]] (only in [[The World Shapers]])


==Sixth Doctor Comic Strip Stories==
''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 Brown|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 (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'' and ''[[Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp]]''.
* '''[[The Shape Shifter]]''' (The Official Doctor Who Magazine issues 88-89 featuring [[Frobisher]]) [[DWM]]
* '''[[Voyager]]''' (The Official Doctor Who Magazine issues 90-94 featuring Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[Polly the Glot]]''' (The Official Doctor Who Magazine issues 95-97 featuring Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[Once Upon a Time Lord]]''' (The Official Doctor Who Magazine issues 98-99 featuring Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[War-Game]]''' (The Doctor Who Magazine issues 100-101 featuring Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[Funhouse]]''' (The Doctor Who Magazine issues 102-103 featuring Frobisher)[[DWM]]
* '''[[Kane's Story]]''' (The Doctor Who Magazine issues 104 featuring [[Peri]] and Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[Abel's Story]]''' (The Doctor Who Magazine issues 105 featuring Peri and Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[The Warrior's Story]]''' (The Doctor Who Magazine issue 106 featuring Peri and Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[Frobisher's Story]]''' (Doctor Who Magazine issue 107 featuring Peri and Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[Exodus]]''' (Doctor Who Magazine issue 108 featuring Peri and Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[Revelation]]''' (Doctor Who Magazine issue 109 featuring Peri and Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[Genesis]]''' (Doctor Who Magazine issue 110 featuring Peri and Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[Nature of the Beast]]''' (Doctor Who Magazine issues 111-113 featuring Peri and Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[Time Bomb]]''' (Doctor Who Magazine issues 114-116 featuring Peri and Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[Salad Daze]]''' (Doctor Who Magazine issues 117 featuring Peri with Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[Changes]]''' (Doctor Who Magazine issues 118-119 featuring Peri and Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[Profits of Doom]]''' (Doctor Who Magazine issues 120-122 featuring Peri and Frobisher) [[DWM]]
* '''[[The Gift]]''' (Doctor Who Magazine issues 123-126 featuring Frobisher and Peri) [[DWM]]
* '''[[The World Shapers]]''' (Doctor Who Magazine issues 127-129 featuring Frobisher, Peri, [[Jamie]]) [[DWM]]
* '''[[Up Above the Gods]]''' (Doctor Who Magazine issue 227 featuring [[Davros]]) [[DWM]]


===Doctor Who Magazine Specials ([[DWMS]])===
Because the Sixth Doctor's era began at the end of [[Season 21 (Doctor Who 1963)|season 21]], and the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s ''DWM'' start was delayed by [[Grant Morrison]]'s epic death-of-[[Jamie McCrimmon]] [[The World Shapers (comic story)|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.
* '''[[The Age of Chaos]]''' (Doctor Who Magazine Special XXXX)


==Continuity==
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.
*The Sixth Doctor and Peri appear in ''[[DWM]]:'' [[Emperor of the Daleks]] (which is part of the [[Seventh Doctor Comic Strip Stories]])
*The Sixth Doctor and Frobisher appear in ''[[DWM]]:'' [[Time & Time Again]] (also a [[Seventh Doctor Comic Strip Stories|Seventh Doctor Comic Strip Story]].
*Frobisher appears along side the Sixth Doctor in ''[[BFA]]:'' [[The Holy Terror]] and [[The Maltese Penguin]] and also in the ''[[PDA]]:'' [[Mission: Impractical]].


== External Links ==
== Comic strip companions of the Sixth Doctor ==
''to be added''
=== Regular ===
* [[Frobisher]] (''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'')
* [[Peri Brown]] (''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'')
One-off
* [[Jamie McCrimmon]] (''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'')


[[Category:Sixth Doctor comic stories|*]]
* [[Melanie Bush]] (''[[Prologue: The Sixth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Sixth Doctor]]'')
 
== List ==
=== ''Doctor Who Magazine'' ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Title || Writer || Featuring || Printed in || Released
|-
|''[[The Shape Shifter (comic story)|The Shape Shifter]]''
|rowspan=4|[[Steve Parkhouse]]
|[[Frobisher]], [[Josiah W. Dogbolter]], [[Hob]]
|[[DWM 88|88]]-[[DWM 89|89]]
|[[12 April (releases)|12 April]] - [[10 May (releases)|10 May]] [[1984 (releases)|1984]]
|-
|''[[Voyager (comic story)|Voyager]]''
|Frobisher, [[Astrolabus]]
|[[DWM 90|90]]-[[DWM 94|94]]
|[[14 June (releases)|14 June]] - [[11 October (releases)|11 October]] [[1984 (releases)|1984]]
|-
|''[[Polly the Glot (comic story)|Polly the Glot]]''
|Frobisher, [[Ivan Asimoff]], Astolabus
|[[DWM 95|95]]-[[DWM 97|97]]
|[[8 November (releases)|8 November]] [[1984 (releases)|1984]] - [[10 January (releases)|10 January]] [[1985 (releases)|1985]]
|-
|''[[Once Upon a Time Lord (comic story)|Once Upon a Time Lord]]''
|Frobisher, Astrolabus
|[[DWM 98|98]]-[[DWM 99|99]]
|[[7 February (releases)|7 February]] - [[7 March (releases)|7 March]] [[1985 (releases)|1985]]
|-
|''[[War-Game (comic story)|War-Game]]''
|rowspan=8|[[Alan McKenzie]]
|rowspan=2|Frobisher
|[[DWM 100|100]]-[[DWM 101|101]]
|[[4 April (releases)|4 April]] - [[9 May (releases)|9 May]] [[1985 (releases)|1985]]
|-
|''[[Funhouse (comic story)|Funhouse]]''
|[[DWM 102|102]]-[[DWM 103|103]]
|[[13 June (releases)|13 June]] - [[11 July (releases)|11 July]] [[1985 (releases)|1985]]
|-
|''[[Kane's Story (comic story)|Kane's Story]]''
|[[Peri Brown|Peri]], Frobisher, [[Skeletoid]]s
|[[DWM 104|104]]
|[[8 August (releases)|8 August]] [[1985 (releases)|1985]]
|-
|''[[Abel's Story (comic story)|Abel's Story]]''
|rowspan=3|Peri, Frobisher, [[Abel Gantz]], Skeletoids
|[[DWM 105|105]]
|[[12 September (releases)|12 September]] [[1985 (releases)|1985]]
|-
|''[[The Warrior's Story (comic story)|The Warrior's Story]]''
|[[DWM 106|106]]
|[[10 October (releases)|10 October]] [[1985 (releases)|1985]]
|-
|''[[Frobisher's Story (comic story)|Frobisher's Story]]''
|[[DWM 107|107]]
|[[14 November (releases)|14 November]] [[1985 (releases)|1985]]
|-
|''[[Exodus (comic story)|Exodus]]''
|Peri, Frobisher
|[[DWM 108|108]]
|[[12 December (releases)|12 December]] [[1985 (releases)|1985]]
|-
|''[[Revelation! (comic story)|Revelation!]]''
|rowspan=2|Peri, Frobisher, [[Cyberman|Cybermen]]
|[[DWM 109|109]]
|[[16 January (releases)|16 January]] [[1986 (releases)|1986]]
|-
|''[[Genesis! (comic story)|Genesis!]]''
|Alan McKenzie (adapted by [[John Ridgway]])
|[[DWM 110|110]]
|[[13 February (releases)|13 February]] [[1986 (releases)|1986]]
|-
|''[[Nature of the Beast! (comic story)|Nature of the Beast!]]''
|[[Simon Furman]]
|Peri, Frobisher
|[[DWM 111|111]]-[[DWM 113|113]]
|[[13 March (releases)|13 March]] - [[8 May (releases)|8 May]] [[1986 (releases)|1986]]
|-
|''[[Time Bomb (DWM comic story)|Time Bomb]]''
|[[Jamie Delano]]
|Frobisher
|[[DWM 114|114]]-[[DWM 116|116]]
|[[12 June (releases)|12 June]] - [[7 August (releases)|7 August]] [[1986 (releases)|1986]]
|-
|''[[Salad Daze (comic story)|Salad Daze]]''
|Simon Furman
|Peri
|[[DWM 117|117]]
|[[11 September (releases)|11 September]] [[1986 (releases)|1986]]
|-
|''[[Changes (comic story)|Changes]]''
|[[Grant Morrison]]
|rowspan=3|Peri, Frobisher
|[[DWM 118|118]]-[[DWM 119|119]]
|[[9 October (releases)|9 October]] - [[13 November (releases)|13 November]] [[1986 (releases)|1986]]
|-
|''[[Profits of Doom! (comic story)|Profits of Doom!]]''
|[[Mike Collins]]
|[[DWM 120|120]]-[[DWM 122|122]]
|[[11 December (releases)|11 December]] [[1986 (releases)|1986]] - [[12 February (releases)|12 February]] [[1987 (releases)|1987]]
|-
|''[[The Gift (comic story)|The Gift]]''
|Jamie Delano
|[[DWM 123|123]]-[[DWM 126|126]]
|[[12 March (releases)|12 March]] - [[11 June (releases)|11 June]] [[1987 (releases)|1987]]
|-
|''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]''
|Grant Morrison
|Peri, Frobisher, [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]]
|[[DWM 127|127]]-[[DWM 129|129]]
|[[9 July (releases)|9 July]] - [[10 September (releases)|10 September]] [[1987 (releases)|1987]]
|-
|''[[Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)|Emperor of the Daleks!]]''
|rowspan=2|[[Paul Cornell]]
|[[Seventh Doctor]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]], Peri, [[Abslom Daak]], [[Harma]], [[Salander (Star Tigers)|Salander]], [[Davros]], [[Dalek Emperor]]
|[[DWM 197|197]]-[[DWM 202|202]]
|[[18 February (releases)|18 February]] - [[8 July (releases)|8 July]] [[1993 (releases)|1993]]
|-
|''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]''
|Seventh Doctor, [[Ace]], Benny, [[First Doctor]], [[Second Doctor]], [[Third Doctor]], [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], Jamie, [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]], [[Adric]], Frobisher, [[White Guardian]], [[Black Guardian]]
|[[DWM 207|207]]
|[[25 November (releases)|25 November]] [[1993 (releases)|1993]]
|-
|''[[Up Above the Gods (comic story)|Up Above the Gods]]''
|[[Richard Alan]]
|Davros
|[[DWM 227|227]]
|[[8 June (releases)|8 June]] [[1995 (releases)|1995]]
|}
 
=== Doctor Who Magazine Specials ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Title || Writer || Featuring
|-
|''[[The Age of Chaos (comic story)|The Age of Chaos]]''
|[[Colin Baker]]
|[[Frobisher]], [[Peri Brown|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 (comic story)|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 (comic story)|Dead Man's Hand]]'' (DW12 15 featuring Matrix projections of the first eleven Doctors and the War Doctor)
 
==== ''Prisoners of Time'' ====
* ''[[Façades (comic story)|Façades]] ''([[POT 6]] featuring [[Peri Brown]] and [[Frobisher]])
* ''[[Endgame (POT comic story)|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 (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'' ([[TLD 2]] and [[TLD 8|8]])
 
==== Back-up strips ====
* ''[[Prologue: The Sixth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Sixth Doctor]]'' ([[11DY2 11]] featuring [[Melanie Bush]])
 
== External links ==
* [http://www.alteredvistas.co.uk/html/sixth_doctor.html Altered Vistas - In the Comics - The Sixth Doctor]
{{dwrefguide|comic6.htm|Doctor Who Magazine - Sixth Doctor Strips}}
 
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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[[edit] | [edit source]]

Regular[[edit] | [edit source]]

One-off

List[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

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[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

Doctor Who Marvel Adventure Comic[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • 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[[edit] | [edit source]]

Miniseries[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

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

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

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

Miniseries[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

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

 
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