DWM comic stories: Difference between revisions
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|''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'' | |''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'' | ||
|[[Sixth Doctor|6th]] | |[[Sixth Doctor|6th]] | ||
|[[Sixth Doctor|Peri]][[Sixth Doctor|, Frobisher]], [[Jamie]] | |[[Sixth Doctor|Peri]][[Sixth Doctor|, Frobisher]], [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] | ||
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|''[[A Cold Day in Hell! (comic story)|A Cold Day in Hell!]]'' | |''[[A Cold Day in Hell! (comic story)|A Cold Day in Hell!]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|7th]] | ||
| | |[[Frobisher|<nowiki/>]][[Seventh Doctor|Frobisher]], [[Ice Warrior|Ice Warriors]] | ||
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|''[[Redemption! (comic story)|Redemption!]]'' | |''[[Redemption! (comic story)|Redemption!]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|7th]] | ||
| | |[[Olla]] | ||
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|''[[The Crossroads of Time (comic story)|The Crossroads of Time]]'' | |''[[The Crossroads of Time (comic story)|The Crossroads of Time]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[Olla|7th]] | ||
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|''[[Claws of the Klathi! (comic story)|Claws of the Klathi!]]'' | |''[[Claws of the Klathi! (comic story)|Claws of the Klathi!]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[Olla|7th]] | ||
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|''[[Culture Shock! (comic story)|Culture Shock!]]'' | |''[[Culture Shock! (comic story)|Culture Shock!]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[Olla|7th]] | ||
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|''[[Keepsake (comic story)|Keepsake]]'' | |''[[Keepsake (comic story)|Keepsake]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[Olla|7th]] | ||
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|''[[Planet of the Dead (comic story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' | |''[[Planet of the Dead (comic story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[Olla|7th]] | ||
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|''[[Echoes of the Mogor! (comic story)|Echoes of the Mogor!]]'' | |''[[Echoes of the Mogor! (comic story)|Echoes of the Mogor!]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[Olla|7th]] | ||
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|''[[Time and Tide (comic story)|Time and Tide]]'' | |''[[Time and Tide (comic story)|Time and Tide]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[Olla|7th]] | ||
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|''[[Follow That TARDIS! (comic story)|Follow That TARDIS!]]'' | |''[[Follow That TARDIS! (comic story)|Follow That TARDIS!]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[Olla|7th]] | ||
| | |[[The Monk]] | ||
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|148-150 | |148-150 | ||
|''[[Invaders from Gantac! (comic story)|Invaders from Gantac!]]'' | |''[[Invaders from Gantac! (comic story)|Invaders from Gantac!]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|7th]] | ||
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|''[[Nemesis of the Daleks (comic story)|Nemesis of the Daleks]]'' | |''[[Nemesis of the Daleks (comic story)|Nemesis of the Daleks]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|7th]] | ||
| | |[[Abslom Daak]], [[Dalek|Daleks]] | ||
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|''[[Stairway to Heaven (comic story)|Stairway to Heaven]]'' | |''[[Stairway to Heaven (comic story)|Stairway to Heaven]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|7th]] | ||
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|''[[Hunger from the Ends of Time! (comic story)|Hunger from the Ends of Time!]] ([[The Incredible Hulk Presents]] reprint)'' | |''[[Hunger from the Ends of Time! (comic story)|Hunger from the Ends of Time!]] ([[The Incredible Hulk Presents]] reprint)'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|7th]] | ||
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|159-161 | |159-161 | ||
|''[[Train-Flight (comic story)|Train-Flight]]'' | |''[[Train-Flight (comic story)|Train-Flight]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|7th]] | ||
| | |[[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]] | ||
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|''[[Doctor Conkerer! (comic story)|Doctor Conkerer!]]'' | |''[[Doctor Conkerer! (comic story)|Doctor Conkerer!]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|<nowiki/>]][[Sarah Jane Smith|7th]] | ||
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|''[[Fellow Travellers (comic story)|Fellow Travellers]]'' | |''[[Fellow Travellers (comic story)|Fellow Travellers]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|<nowiki/>]][[Sarah Jane Smith|7th]] | ||
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|''[[Darkness, Falling (comic story)|Darkness, Falling ]]'' | |''[[Darkness, Falling (comic story)|Darkness, Falling ]]'' | ||
|<nowiki>-</nowiki> | |<nowiki>-</nowiki> | ||
| | |[[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|The Brigadier]] | ||
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|''[[Distractions (comic story)|Distractions]]'' | |''[[Distractions (comic story)|Distractions]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|<nowiki/>]][[Sarah Jane Smith|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|7th]] | ||
| | |[[Ace|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|Ace]] | ||
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|''[[The Mark of Mandragora (comic story)|The Mark of Mandragora]]'' | |''[[The Mark of Mandragora (comic story)|The Mark of Mandragora]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|<nowiki/>]][[Sarah Jane Smith|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|7th]] | ||
| | |[[Ace|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|Ace]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|, The Brigadier]] | ||
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|''[[Party Animals (comic story)|Party Animals]]'' | |''[[Party Animals (comic story)|Party Animals]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|<nowiki/>]][[Sarah Jane Smith|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|7th]] | ||
| | |[[Ace|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|Ace]] | ||
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|''[[The Chameleon Factor (comic story)|The Chameleon Factor]]'' | |''[[The Chameleon Factor (comic story)|The Chameleon Factor]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|<nowiki/>]][[Sarah Jane Smith|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|7th]] | ||
| | |[[Ace|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|Ace]] | ||
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|''[[The Good Soldier (comic story)|The Good Soldier]]'' | |''[[The Good Soldier (comic story)|The Good Soldier]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|<nowiki/>]][[Sarah Jane Smith|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|7th]] | ||
| | |[[Ace|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|Ace]], [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] | ||
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|''[[A Glitch in Time (comic story)|A Glitch in Time]]'' | |''[[A Glitch in Time (comic story)|A Glitch in Time]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|<nowiki/>]][[Sarah Jane Smith|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|<nowiki/>]][[Cyberman (Mondas)|7th]] | ||
| | |[[Ace|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|<nowiki/>]][[Cyberman (Mondas)|Ace]] | ||
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|''[[Evening's Empire (comic story)|Evening's Empire (Part One only)]]'' | |''[[Evening's Empire (comic story)|Evening's Empire (Part One only)]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|<nowiki/>]][[Sarah Jane Smith|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|<nowiki/>]][[Cyberman (Mondas)|7th]] | ||
| | |[[Ace|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|<nowiki/>]][[Cyberman (Mondas)|Ace]] | ||
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|''[[The Fires Down Below (comic story)|The Fires Down Below (]][[DWM backup comic stories|backup strip]] reprint)'' | |''[[The Fires Down Below (comic story)|The Fires Down Below (]][[DWM backup comic stories|backup strip]] reprint)'' | ||
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| | |[[Whitaker (The Fires Down Below)|Whitaker]] | ||
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|''[[Spider-God (comic story)|Spider-God]] (reprint)'' | |''[[Spider-God (comic story)|Spider-God]] (reprint)'' | ||
| | |[[K9 Mark II|<nowiki/>]][[Cyberman (Mondas)|4th]] | ||
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|''[[Conflict of Interests (comic story)|Conflict of Interests | |''[[Conflict of Interests (comic story)|Conflict of Interests]]'' | ||
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| | |[[Sontaran|Sontarans]] | ||
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|''[[Business as Usual (comic story)|Business as Usual (backup strip reprint)]]'' | |''[[Business as Usual (comic story)|Business as Usual (backup strip reprint)]]'' | ||
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| | |[[Nestene Consciousness]], [[Auton|Autons]] | ||
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|''[[The Grief (comic story)|The Grief]]'' | |''[[The Grief (comic story)|The Grief]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|<nowiki/>]][[Sarah Jane Smith|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|<nowiki/>]][[Cyberman (Mondas)|<nowiki/>]][[Auton|7th]] | ||
| | |[[Ace|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|<nowiki/>]][[Cyberman (Mondas)|<nowiki/>]][[Auton|Ace]] | ||
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|''[[Ravens (comic story)|Ravens]]'' | |''[[Ravens (comic story)|Ravens]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|<nowiki/>]][[Sarah Jane Smith|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|<nowiki/>]][[Cyberman (Mondas)|<nowiki/>]][[Auton|7th]] | ||
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|''[[Memorial (comic story)|Memorial]]'' | |''[[Memorial (comic story)|Memorial]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|<nowiki/>]][[Sarah Jane Smith|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|<nowiki/>]][[Cyberman (Mondas)|<nowiki/>]][[Auton|7th]] | ||
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|''[[Cat Litter (comic story)|Cat Litter]]'' | |''[[Cat Litter (comic story)|Cat Litter]]'' | ||
| | |[[Seventh Doctor|<nowiki/>]][[Ice Warrior|<nowiki/>]][[The Monk|<nowiki/>]][[Dalek|<nowiki/>]][[Sarah Jane Smith|<nowiki/>]][[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart|<nowiki/>]][[Cyberman (Mondas)|<nowiki/>]][[Auton|7th]] | ||
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Revision as of 20:26, 23 July 2016
Comic stories have appeared in all but two issues of Doctor Who Magazine. Since its earliest days as Doctor Who Weekly, the publication has been home to many types of strips, but the most durable has been the one featuring the then-current televised Doctor. This "main strip" has usually been told in a multi-part format. Beyond these continuing adventures of the Doctor, the magazine has at different times printed comic adaptations of classic science fiction stories, reprints of original science-fiction stories from American comic book anthologies, reprints of strips originally printed in Polystyle or City Magazines publications, and original strips not featuring the Doctor which were nevertheless set in the Whoniverse.
Overview
In 1979, Marvel UK wrested control of the license to produce Doctor Who comics from Polystyle. Editor Dez Skinn immediately changed the style of the comic strip by hiring youngsters who were principally comic book artists, rather than the cartoonists and illustrators who had been in charge of Polystyle's output. With soon-to-be-luminaries like Dave Gibbons, Pat Mills and John Wagner working on the main strip and Alan Moore, Steve Moore, Steve Dillon and Steve Parkhouse initially handling the back-ups, Skinn instantly brought modern — and more American — sensibilities to the comic Doctor Who world.
At the same time, those early issues of Doctor Who Weekly brought American comic strips in front of British eyes by having a long series of reprints taken straight from Marvel's long line of American science fiction anthologies. Called variously "Tales from the TARDIS" and "Time Tales", the non-Whoniverse backup strips of those early issues involved a few panels of the Fourth Doctor framing a Marvel US adaptation of a classic science fiction story or an original strip taken from a Marvel US science fiction anthology of the 1950s or 1960s. Borrowed as they were from Marvel US, they featured the talents of Marvel legends Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Chris Claremont, and even Stan Lee himself. Skinn also resurrected the long-out-of-print Dalek Tapes stories that had originally appeared in TV Century 21. For a time, Doctor Who Weekly regularly had three or four different strips in each issue.
Skinn's successors rather quickly ended the non-Whoniverse material, and made reprints of 1960s material increasingly sporadic. But the non-Doctor original back-ups remained well past the time the magazine became Doctor Who Monthly. These backups, however, dried up at about the time the Sixth Doctor debuted. By the end of the 1980s, the magazine generally ran only the main Doctor Who strip. However, there were rare instances when a Polystyle comic made its way into print during the 1990s. These occasional reprints ended entirely by the dawn of the 21st century. In the 1990s DWM temporarily ran a series of comic strips featuring past Doctors in lieu of the then-current Seventh Doctor, but from 1996 it once again featured exclusively the current Doctor.
Today, Doctor Who Magazine exclusively publishes a single original comic strip per issue. As has been the case since 1979, most stories are serialised and told over the course of several issues, with the occasional single-chapter standalone. Originally published in black and white, the comic strip has been published in colour since the early 2000s.
Reprints
Many of the comic strips have been reprinted a number of times in, or as, various publications, including as a series of mini-comics given away free in multi-packs of crisp snacks.
Doctor Who Magazine material was first reprinted in America via the Marvel Premiere anthology series in the early 1980s. When sales proved favourable, a new title, Doctor Who (1984), was launched. Though cancelled just shy of its two-year anniversary, the title managed to reprint almost all of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors' DWM runs. It also offered some prominent American artists, such as Dave Cockrum and George Roussos, an opportunity to offer pinup and cover artwork of Doctor Who subjects. Like many DWM reprints, Doctor Who (1984) presented its reprints in colour. Towards the end of 2007, IDW Publishing picked up the option to again reprint colourised versions of DWM comic strips in a monthly American series entitled Doctor Who Classics, reprinting stories up to the early Seventh Doctor era, plus a two-volume standalone, Grant Morrison's Doctor Who, reprinting Morrison's output from DWM. IDW also published several omnibus trade paperbacks featuring DWM strip reprints. The reprints ended with IDW's loss of their license to publish Doctor Who comics.
In the UK, Panini undertook a long project to digitally restore all Doctor Who Magazine comics, and faithfully reprint the comics from their original masters. In most cases, this has meant the first monochromatic reprinting of most DWM strips. It has also offered the creative teams an opportunity to add explanatory notes and original concept artwork. These large-format volumes have to date covered most of the history of DWM from 1979 onwards.
Doctor Who Magazine's comic strips have also been a key feature of hardback publications like the series of Doctor Who Yearbooks, Doctor Who annuals and Doctor Who Storybooks, as well as numerous special, seasonal issues of DWM itself.
