DWM 61

DWM 61
Cover date:	February 1982
Format:	40pp stapled
Editor:	Alan McKenzie
Publisher:	Marvel Comics UK
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Contents

Articles

• ‘Behind the Scenes: Graphic Design’

Comic Strips

• Doctor Who: The Tides of Time (Part One)
• Devil of the Deep
• The Dalek Chronicles: The Rogue Planet

Fiction

• None

Archives

DWM Archives (Retelling by episode, with no credits)

• DW: City of Death

EPISODE GUIDE (Listing details including dates, episode endings, credits and dates):

• The Mind of Evil to Day of the Daleks

Interviews / Profiles

• None

Previews

• TV: Castrovalva
• TV: Four to Doomsday

Reviews

• None

A4 Pin-ups

• B&W The Fifth Doctor from (DW): The Visitation
• B&W Tegan Jovanka from (DW): Castrovalva

A2 Center Page Colour Spread

• The Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric from (DW): The Visitation

Also Featuring

• Gallifrey Guardian
• Doctor Who Letters (Letters Page)
• Matrix Data Bank
• Competition: Name the Doctors (For 1 of 10 Theme Tune records)

Credits:

Editor: Alan McKenzie

Contributing Editor: Jeremy Bentham

Design: Rahid Khan

Art Assistance: Chas Farnsbarns

Editorial Assistance: Gilly Joseph

Production: Tim Hampson & Nigel Balloch

Distribution: Comag

Financial Controller: Robert W. Sutherland

Advertising: Claire Brooke

Publisher: Stan Lee

Advisor: John Nathan-Turner

Additional details

• A time of change, with a new Doctor (the Fifth) and a new series on television, the cover proclaimed `Now better than ever…` and offered a new look to the magazine. While dropping its page count it now included more colour pages with the centrespread being used for posters.
• The Tides of Time comic strip story introduces the Fifth Doctor without any explanation of a change or regeneration. The reason for this is due to the copyright problems of using portions of Christopher H. Bidmead’s script, the fact the magazine has such a strict production schedule and the fact that some 8 million saw the regeneration on their TV!
• The year date is not displayed on the front cover.
• The main cover image is from DW: Four to Doomsday
• This issues cover displays the Eagle Award for Best Comic Magazine.
• John Nathan-Turner is acknowledged from this issue as adviser to the magazine, demonstrating an ongoing link between the Doctor Who Magazine and TV production. This relationship bringing to later issues the tagline title, `The Official Magazine’.
• Peter Davison's name is misspelled on his first cover: "Peter Davidson is the Doctor!"

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