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*This bumper issue of stories served as "issue 0" of ''[[Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor]]''.
*This bumper issue of stories served as "issue 0" of ''[[Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor]]''.
*This comic was announced by Entertainment Weekly exclusively, with exclusive first look images, on 28 June 2018.<ref>[https://ew.com/tv/2018/06/28/doctor-who-comic-jodie-whittaker/ ''Doctor Who'' comic first look: Jodie Whittaker's time traveler to relive previously unseen adventures] from [https://ew.com/ Entertainment Weekly].</ref>
*This comic was announced by Entertainment Weekly exclusively, with exclusive first look images, on 28 June 2018.<ref>[https://ew.com/tv/2018/06/28/doctor-who-comic-jodie-whittaker/ ''Doctor Who'' comic first look: Jodie Whittaker's time traveler to relive previously unseen adventures] from [https://ew.com/ Entertainment Weekly].</ref>
*[[Titan Comics]]' ''Doctor Who'' editor [[Andrew James]] stated to [[Richard Dinnick]] that though Titan was releasing ''[[The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor]]'', there was "a gap before Jody [Houser] start[ed] the main line of 13th Doctor ongoing" and that "What we’d like to do is a multi-Doctor big event thing to bring everyone into the range".<ref name=":0">[https://scifibulletin.com/doctor-who/interviews/interview-author-richard-dinnick-the-many-lives-of-doctor-who/ Interview: Author Richard Dinnick (The Many Lives of Doctor Who)] from [https://scifibulletin.com/ Sci-Fi Bulletin].</ref>
*[[Titan Comics]]' ''Doctor Who'' editor [[Andrew James]] stated to [[Richard Dinnick]] that though Titan was releasing ''[[The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor]]'', there was "a gap before [[Jody Houser|Jody [Houser]]] start[ed] the main line of 13th Doctor ongoing" and that "What we’d like to do is a [[Multi-Doctor event|multi-Doctor big event]] thing to bring everyone into the range".<ref name=":0">[https://scifibulletin.com/doctor-who/interviews/interview-author-richard-dinnick-the-many-lives-of-doctor-who/ Interview: Author Richard Dinnick (The Many Lives of Doctor Who)] from [https://scifibulletin.com/ Sci-Fi Bulletin].</ref>
*The comic "started life" as ''The 13 Doctors'', according to Dinnick, before "we realised there were 14 if not 15 in there; we’ve not got [[Peter Cushing|Cushing]] but we have got [[War Doctor|War]]. We haven’t done two [[David Tennant|Tennant]] stories – even though apparently he’s [[Tenth Doctor|two]] [[Meta-Crisis Doctor|Doctors!]]"<ref name=":0" />
*The comic "started life" as ''The 13 Doctors'', according to Dinnick, before "we realised there were 14 if not 15 in there; we’ve not got [[Peter Cushing|Cushing]] but we have got [[War Doctor|War]]. We haven’t done two [[David Tennant|Tennant]] stories – even though apparently he’s [[Tenth Doctor|two]] [[Meta-Crisis Doctor|Doctors!]]"<ref name=":0" />
*It was Jess Burton who came up with the preamble of ''The Many Lives of...'' with the ''Doctor Who'' logo serving to finish the rest of the title.<ref name=":0" />
*It was [[Jessica Burton]] who came up with the preamble of ''The Many Lives of...'' with the ''Doctor Who'' logo serving to finish the rest of the title, according to Richard Dinnick.<ref name=":0" />
*Richard Dinnick was instructed not to make a [[multi-Doctor story]] as per ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'' or ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|The Four Doctors]]'', but instead, as he said, "standalone stories to show [[The Doctor|the Doctors]] in their era, in their comfort zone with their [[Companion|companions]] doing a story that was reflective of their era". The other requirement "was not to have too much baggage" in terms of continuity references. He "liked [that] because [[The Wolves of Winter (comic story)|I’d done two]] [[A Confusion of Angels (comic story)|quite continuity-heavy stories]] for [the] [[12th Doctor]] and [[The Great Shopping Bill (comic story)|a standalone that wasn’t]]". Though he "did put some Easter eggs in for fans".<ref name=":0" />
*Richard Dinnick was instructed not to make a [[multi-Doctor story]] as per ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'' or ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|The Four Doctors]]'', but instead, as he said, "standalone stories to show [[The Doctor|the Doctors]] in their era, in their comfort zone with their [[Companion|companions]] doing a story that was reflective of their era". The other requirement "was not to have too much baggage" in terms of continuity references. He "liked [that] because [[The Wolves of Winter (comic story)|[he]’d done two]] [[A Confusion of Angels (comic story)|quite continuity-heavy stories]] for [the] [[12th Doctor]] and [[The Great Shopping Bill (comic story)|a standalone that wasn’t]]". Though he "did put some [[Easter egg|Easter eggs]] in for fans".<ref name=":0" />
*Richard Dinnick considers ''The Many Lives of Doctor Who'' "in [his] mind at least" to be the 55th anniversary special, as "Every Doctor is in it". However, he does concede "we don’t see [[Daleks]] or [[Cybermen]] or [[Sontarans]] etc", but does point out ''Harvest of the Daleks'' is of course about the Daleks.<ref name=":0" />
*Richard Dinnick considers ''The Many Lives of Doctor Who'' "in [his] mind at least" to be the 55th anniversary special, as "Every Doctor is in it". However, he does concede "we don’t see [[Daleks]] or [[Cybermen]] or [[Sontarans]] etc", but does point out ''Harvest of the Daleks'' is of course about the Daleks.<ref name=":0" />
*Dinnick "want[ed] to put an element of [[13 (number)|13]] in each story – for example there’s a story about some [[Alien|aliens]] that are based on [[Aluminium|the 13th element]] of the [[periodic table]]", referencing ''Virtually Indestructible''.<ref name=":0" />
*Dinnick "want[ed] to put an element of [[13 (number)|13]] in each story – for example there’s a story about some [[Haxeen|aliens]] that are based on [[Aluminium|the 13th element]] of the [[periodic table]]", referencing ''Virtually Indestructible''.<ref name=":0" />


== Footnotes==
== Footnotes==

Revision as of 07:32, 29 October 2024

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The Many Lives of Doctor Who was solicited as "Issue 0"[1][2] or "Volume 0"[3][4][5] of Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor, published on September 26 2018.[1][6][5][7][nb 1]

Stories

Title Doctor Featuring Released
The Many Lives of Doctor Who 13th Twelfth Doctor 26 September 2018
The Path of Skulls 1st Susan, Ian, Barbara
Card Conundrum 2nd Ben, Polly, Jamie
Invasion of the Scorpion Men 3rd Sarah, Dahensa
Time Lady of Means 4th Romana II, Tigil, Kemos
Ophiuchus 5th Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough
Virtually Indestructible 6th Peri
Crossing the Rubicon 7th Ace, Julius Caesar, the Tremas Master
The Time Ball 8th Josie
The Whole Thing's Bananas War Dorium Maldovar
Return of the Volsci 9th Rose, Jack
Nurse Who? 10th Gabby, Cindy
Without a Paddle 11th Alice, River
Harvest of the Daleks 12th Bill

Notes

Footnotes

  1. Somes sites list the release date as being 9 October 2018, such as [Penguin Random House], [Amazon, on the Paperback listing page,], [and Hudson Booksellers]. However, the date of 9 October is not consistent with the Entertainment Weekly article stating The Many Lives of Doctor Who was due for release in September, which the other sites footnoted correlate.