DWM 1

DWM issue 1
Doctor Who Weekly Issue 1
Cover Date:	Oct.17 1979
Price:	12p
Format:	28pp stapled
Publisher:	Marvel Comics UK
Editor:	Dez Skin

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Contents

Articles

`The Monsters of Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks' by B.Aldrich and G. Blows <Daleks>

Comic Strip/s

The Iron Legion (Part One)

Return of the Daleks

Tales From The TARDIS: War of The Worlds by H.G.Wells

Fiction

Journal Entry 2481/B-3: The Doctor's escape from the Vogan Space Platform

Journal Entry 3512/A-7: The Doctor escape from Magnon 5

Archives

`The Story of Doctor Who'

Interviews / Profiles

William Hartnell (Photofile Number 1)

Previews

Reviews

A4 Pin-ups

Also Featuring

A Letter From the Doctor

Crazy Caption Competition (£5 to be won)

Further Information

• After noticing the popularity of Doctor Who related content in the Marvel UK magazine Starburst, the then editor Dez Skin created Doctor Who Weekly.
• The main comic strip (featuring the Doctor) was to be treated as serious science-fiction and not as juvenille adventures as previously had appeared in Polystyles TV Comic.
• The supporting comic strip presented under the heading `Tales From the TARDIS' featured previously issued material with opening and closing boxes redrawn and tailored specifically for inclusion in the pages of Doctor Who Weekly.
• Unlike previous Doctor Who comic strips the lead character was to be referred to as `the Doctor' and not `Doctor Who'.
• This Fantastic First issue had free transfers selotaped to the cover that could be used on Dave Gibbon's full-colour page panoras on the inside cover.
• The photo-file feature on William Hartnell carries a note that reads "to the memory of whom this first issue is respectfully dedicated."