Seventh Doctor comic stories

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Somewhat after the broadcast of the Doctor Who television story Time and the Rani, Doctor Who Magazine's Seventh Doctor comic stories began. While the cancellation of the Doctor Who television series was undoubtedly bad news for Sylvester McCoy's longevity in the role, it was an unexpected boon to the Seventh Doctor's comic life. With no new Doctor on the horizon, the Seventh Doctor lived on in the pages of DWM for years after the transmission of McCoy's final regular appearance on TV in Survival in 1989.

In fact, the Seventh Doctor became the first incarnation of the Doctor to be in two regular comic publications simultaneously. Pre-figuring the Tenth Doctor's later "double-duty" in DWM and Doctor Who Adventures, the Seventh Doctor was, briefly, in both DWM and The Incredible Hulk Presents, another Marvel publication.

Several different approaches were taken by DWM during this era. At first, they told stories which had no obvious connection to the television series. Frobisher briefly ushered in the new Doctor's era, before scampering off. The Doctor then travelled around either on his own or with one-off companions.

After the television series ended, and the Virgin New Adventures series began, there was an effort to try to fit the comic stories into the novels' continuity. This period, though, came to a definitive end when DWM killed off Ace in Ground Zero — an act that deliberately returned DWM to its own, separate continuity.

By this stage, however, DWM had taken the editorial decision to consider the Seventh Doctor as a "past" incarnation. They began to use the comic space to tell stories of the other incarnations, which gave modern artists and writers the chance to feature Doctors and companions who hadn't really been a part of the DWM strip before. Thus, though the Seventh Doctor had a much longer reign in comics than television, it was a few years shorter than the gap between Survival and the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie, where the Seventh Doctor regenerated into the Eighth on-screen. By contrast, the Eighth Doctor's era ended only when the Ninth Doctor's began in the 2005 episode Rose.

Comic strip companions of the Seventh Doctor

Regular

• Ace (Doctor Who Magazine, Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor)
• Bernice Summerfield (Doctor Who Magazine)

One-off

• Frobisher (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Olla (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Susan (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Sarah Jane Smith (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Peri (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Ly-Chee (The Incredible Hulk Presents)
• Melanie Bush (Doctor Who Magazine)

Seventh Doctor comic stories

Doctor Who Magazine

Travelling with Frobisher

• A Cold Day in Hell! (DWM 130-133)

Travelling with Olla

• Redemption! (DWM 134)

Travelling alone

• The Crossroads of Time (DWM 135)
• Claws of the Klathi! (DWM 136-138)
• Culture Shock (DWM 139)
• Keepsake (DWM 140)
• Planet of the Dead (DWM 141-142)
• Echoes of the Mogor! (DWM 143-144)
• Time and Tide (DWM 145-146)
• Follow That TARDIS! (DWM 147)
• Invaders from Gantac! (DWM 148-150)
• The Infinity Season (DWM 151)
• Nemesis of the Daleks (DWM 152-155)
• Stairway to Heaven (DWM 156)
• Hunger from the Ends of Time! (DWM 157-158) (reprint)
• Train-Flight (DWM 159-161 featuring Sarah Jane Smith)
• Doctor Conkerer! (DWM 162)

Travelling with Ace

• Fellow Travellers (DWM 164-166)
• Darkness Falling (DWM 167 prelude without the Doctor and Ace, featuring the Brigadier)
• Distractions (DWM 168)
• The Mark of Mandragora (DWM 169-172)
• Party Animals (DWM 173)
• The Chameleon Factor (DWM 174)
• The Good Soldier (DWM 175-178)
• A Glitch in Time (DWM 179)
• The Grief (DWM 185-187)
• Ravens (DWM 188-190)
• Memorial (DWM 191)
• Cat Litter (DWM 192)

Travelling with Bernice Summerfield

• Pureblood (DWM 193-196)
• Emperor of the Daleks! (DWM 197-202)

Travelling with Ace and Bernice Summerfield

• Final Genesis (DWM 203-206)
• Time & Time Again (DWM 207)
• Cuckoo (DWM 208-210)

Travelling alone

• Uninvited Guest (DWM 211)

Travelling with Ace

• Ground Zero (DWM 238-242 featuring Peri Brown, Susan Foreman, and Sarah Jane Smith)

Travelling with Ace and Bernice Summerfield

• The Last Word (DWM 305)

Doctor Who Magazine specials

• Plastic Millennium (DWMS Winter 1994 featuring Melanie Bush)
• Seaside Rendezvous (DWMS Summer 1991 featuring Ace)
• Evening's Empire (DWM 180-DWCC Autumn Holiday Special featuring Ace)
• Flashback (DWMS Winter 1992 featuring Bernice Summerfield)
• Younger and Wiser (DWMS Summer 1994 featuring Bernice Summerfield)

Death's Head Vol 1

• Time Bomb! (DH 8)

The Incredible Hulk Presents

• Once in a Lifetime (IHP 1)
• Hunger from the Ends of Time! (IHP 2-3)
• War World! (IHP 4)
• Technical Hitch (IHP 5)
• A Switch in Time! (IHP 6)
• The Sentinel! (IHP 7)
• Who's That Girl! (IHP 8-9)
• The Enlightenment of Ly-Chee the Wise (IHP 10 featuring Ly-Chee)
• Slimmer! (IHP 11)
• Nineveh! (IHP 12)

Doctor Who Yearbook

• Under Pressure (Doctor Who Yearbook 1992 featuring Ace)
• Metamorphosis (Doctor Who Yearbook 1993 featuring Ace)
• A Religious Experience (Doctor Who Yearbook 1994)

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Miniseries

• The Forgotten (TF 4 featuring Ace, the first ten Doctors (save the War Doctor), and numerous other companions)

Doctor Who (2012)

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

Prisoners of Time

• Cat and Mouse (POT 7 featuring Ace)
• Endgame (POT 12 featuring Ace, the first eleven Doctors (save the War Doctor), and numerous other companions)

Titan Comics

Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor

• Operation Volcano (7D 1-3 featuring Ace)

Back-up strips

• Prologue: The Seventh Doctor (10DY2 13 featuring Ace)
• Hill of Beans (7D 1-3 featuring Ace)

Miniseries

• The Lost Dimension (TLD 8)

External links

• Altered Vistas - In the Comics - The Seventh Doctor
• Doctor Who Magazine strips featuring the Seventh Doctor at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• Incredible Hulk Presents strips featuring the Seventh Doctor at the Doctor Who Reference Guide