First Doctor comic stories

Overview

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Comic Strip Companions of the First Doctor

Major

• John
• Gillian

Minor

• Susan
• Ian Chesterton
• Barbara Wright
• Ben Jackson
• Polly
• Vicki
• Steven

First Doctor Comic Strip Stories

Title Notes:

• Many of the early comic strip stories did not have individual story titles so there is no 'correct' title for many of the strips. Commentary and listings from older sources may use variant titles.
• The titles given below conform to widely accepted titles (as referenced by Jean-Marc Lofficier and revised by John Ainsworth (comic historian)). The titles below were also adopted and used by Doctor Who Magazine and throughout Doctor Who Classic Comics (to which John Ainsworth) was a major contributer.
• The titles used below are firstly taken from the strip itself or, from titles given by the preceding issue. In some cases the writer/artist has been able to provide a title for a given piece of work.
• The listing below shows first publication details only. Reprint details can be found by following the story links.

Doctor Who Annuals (DWA)

• Mission for Duh (Doctor Who Annual 1967) DWA

TV Comic (TVC)

• The Klepton Parasites (TV Comic issues 674-683) TVC
• The Therovian Quest (TV Comic issues 684-689) TVC
• The Hijackers of Thrax (TV Comic issues 690-692) TVC
• On the Web Planet (TV Comic issues 693-698) TVC
• The Gyros Injustice (TV Comic issues 699-704) TVC
• Challenge of the Piper (TV Comic issues 705-709) TVC
• Moon Landing (TV Comic issues 710-712) TVC
• Time in Reverse (TV Comic issues 713-715) TVC
• Lizardworld (TV Comic issues 716-719) TVC
• The Ordeals of Demeter (TV Comic issues 720-723) TVC
• Enter: The Go-Ray (TV Comic issues 724-727) TVC
• Shark Bait (TV Comic issues 728-731) TVC
• A Christmas Story (TV Comic issues 732-735) TVC
• The Didus Expedition (TV Comic issues 736-739) TVC
• Space Station Z-7 (TV Comic issues 740-743) TVC
• Plague of the Black Scorpi (TV Comic issues 744-747) TVC
• The Trodos Tyranny (TV Comic issues 748-752) TVC
• The Secret of Gemino (TV Comic issues 753-757) TVC
• The Haunted Planet (TV Comic issues 758-762) TVC
• The Hunters of Zerox (TV Comic issues 763-767) TVC
• The Underwater Robot (TV Comic issues 768-771) TVC
• Return of the Trods (TV Comic issues 772-775) TVC
• The Galaxy Games (TV Comic issues 776-779) TVC
• The Experimenters (TV Comic issues 780-783) TVC

TV Comic Annuals (TVC)

• Prisoners of the Kleptons (TV Comic Annual 1966) TVC
• The Caterpillar Men (TV Comic Annual 1966) TVC
• Deadly Vessel (TV Comic Annual 1967) TVC
• Kingdom of the Animals (TV Comic Annual 1967) TVC

TV Comic Holiday Specials (TVC)

• Prisoners of Gritog (TV Comic Holiday Special 1965)
• Guests of King Neptune (TV Comic Holiday Special 1966)
• The Gaze of the Gorgon (TV Comic Holiday Special 1966)

Doctor Who Magazine (DWM)

• Operation Proteus (DWM issues 231-233 features Susan)
• Food for Thought (DWM issues 218-220 features Ben Jackson and Polly)

Seventh/First crossovers

No doubt inspired by DW: Remembrance of the Daleks, the Seventh/First "non-crossover" comic story deserves special mention. The basic setup of this type of story follows the pattern established in Remembrance: the First Doctor does something in the past that the Seventh Doctor later revisits. The Doctors don't cross paths. The Seventh Doctor doesn't "de-age" into the First. It's just a simple look into the past. There have been three examples of this kind of story.

Doctor Who Magazine Special (DWMS)

• "Flashback" (Winter 1992, features Benny and the Seventh Doctor viewing a holographic recording of the First Doctor before he left Gallifrey)
• "Are You Listening?" (Summer 1993, features Steven and Vicki, resolved in the Seventh Doctor story, "Younger and Wiser")

Doctor Who Yearbook

• "A Religious Experience" (1994, principally features a story with the First Doctor, Ian and Barbara, but ends with a latter-day visit to the setting of the First Doctor story by the companionless Seventh Doctor.)

Multi-Doctor appearances

Since Hartnell relinquished the role, the First Doctor has generally appeared in multi-Doctor comic stories, in which other versions of himself have appeared alongside him. They have taken one of three approaches. Either they've featured serious attempts at justifying the reappearance of the First Doctor, they've been flat parodies. or they've been a little bit of both.

Non-parodic

• "Timeslip"
• (the DWM version of) "Fun House"
• "Time & Time Again"

Parodic

• "Doctor Ooh"
• The Comic Relief Comic (untitled story)
• Doctor Who: It's Bigger on the Inside!
• numerous editions of the three-panel cartoon, Doctor Who?

Mixture

• "Happy Deathday" (the story does fit into Eighth Doctor/Izzy continuity, but it takes place inside a video game Izzy's playing on the Time-Space Visualiser
• "Death to the Doctor!"

First Doctor-only parody

• "An Unearthly Child (The Unscreened Edition)" featured only the original TARDIS crew.

External Links

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