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* This is the second  of four collections featuring the run of Eighth Doctor stories and contains 242 high quality printed pages and a new cover by [[Martin Geraghty]] and priced at £15.99 (UK).
* This is the second  of four collections featuring the run of Eighth Doctor stories and contains 242 high quality printed pages and a new cover by [[Martin Geraghty]] and priced at £15.99 (UK).
* All the comic strip stories featured in this first volume have been cleaned up and are presented as they first appeared in the pages of Doctor Who Monthly ([[Doctor Who Magazine|DWM]]), complete with opening and closing captions.
* All the comic strip stories featured in this first volume have been cleaned up and are presented as they first appeared in the pages of Doctor Who Monthly ([[Doctor Who Magazine|DWM]]), complete with opening and closing captions.
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The Glorious Dead was the fifth volume of the Panini Publishing series of Doctor Who Magazine comic collections, and the second to feature the Eighth Doctor. In included those Eighth Doctor DWM strips with the earliest release dates.

Like all in the series, it was notable for its high quality digital restoration of the comics. It was the first chance readers had of seeing the original, monochromatic version of the comics since they were first published in DWM in the mid-1990s.

Publisher's summary

Collected comic strips from the pages of Doctor Who Magazine!
The Eighth Doctor faces new perils in this bumper collection of classic comic adventures!
This volume features eight amazing stories: THE FALLEN, UNNATURAL BORN KILLERS, THE ROAD TO HELL, THE COMPANY OF THIEVES, THE GLORIOUS DEAD, THE AUTONOMY BUG, HAPPY DEATHDAY and TV ACTION!
The Doctor and his best friend Izzy are joined in the TARDIS by Kroton, a Cyberman with a heart and soul! The action comes faster than ever as our heroes encounter genocidal Sontarans, vicious space pirates, demented robots, mad gods, deadly samurai warriors … and the actor Tom Baker!
But the ultimate challenge is approaching: an epic, star-spanning battle that will decide the fate of all reality! An old friend is waiting to be reunited with the Doctor, while an even older enemy is lurking in the shadows of time and space …
PLUS two bonus stories from the early days of Doctor Who Weekly, THROWBACK: THE SOUL OF A CYBERMAN and SHIP OF FOOLS, telling the origins of Kroton the Cyberman! AND a six page behind-the-scenes feature where writers Scott Gray, Alan Barnes and Adrian Salmon reveal background information on the stories’ origins alongside never-befor-seen sketches and character designs from Salmon and fellow artists Martin Geraghty and Roger Langridge!
AN ESSENTIAL COLLECTION FOR FANS OF DOCTOR WHO AND CLASSIC BRITISH COMICS!

Comic strip stories

The Fallen

Travelling Companion: Izzy Additional features:

  • Grace Holloway
  • Leighton Woodrow (Head of M16)
  • Professor Donald Stark
  • Morphant
  • The Preacher

Unnatural Born Killers

Travelling Companions: None (The Doctor does not appear)
Additional features:

The Road to Hell

Travelling Companions: Izzy
Additional features:

  • Katsura Sato
  • Lord Rikushira
  • The Gaijin
  • Lady Asami

The Company of Thieves

Travelling Companions: Izzy
Additional features:

  • Captain Grast Horstrogg
  • Mr Shakka
  • Kroton
  • Tobal Reist
  • The Eraser

The Glorious Dead

Travelling Companions: Izzy, Kroton
Additional features:

  • Esterath
  • Jynx
  • Paradost
  • Cardinal Morningstar
  • The Odostra
  • Dhakanians
  • Ash Wraiths
  • Grace Holloway
  • The Glory
  • The Omniversal Spectrum
  • Dhakan
  • Katsura Kato
  • the Master

The Autonomy Bug

Travelling Companions: Izzy, Fey
Additional features:

  • Dr. Andrelina Hastoff
  • Emperor Nero
  • Duchess Nora
  • Simon
  • Salvador
  • Otto
  • Branson and Bronson

Happy Deathday

Travelling Companions: Izzy
Additional features:

  • All eight Doctors
  • The Beige Guardian
  • Host of TV enemies

TV Action!

Travelling Companions: Izzy
Additional features:

Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman

Back-up Comic Strip Story without the Doctor
Featuring:

Ship of Fools

Back-up Comic Strip Story without the Doctor
Featuring:

  • Kroton
  • Willoughby
  • Krylic the Poet
  • Rolf
  • Cassandra
  • Leonart

Additional features

  • Full page of rough sketches of the eight Doctors by Roger Langridge
  • Commentary (by Scott Gray, Adrian Salmon and Alan Barnes)
  • About the Authors

Credits

Project Editor and Designer: Clayton Hickman
Artwork scanning and digital cleanup: Peri Godbold Additional scanning and clean-up: Imad Douglas @ DL Repro, James Clarkson and Clayton Hickman
Cover artwork: Martin Geraghty
Colours: Adrian Salmon
Production: Mark Irvine
Managing Editor: Alan O'Keefe
Managing Director: Mike Riddell
Thanks to: Alan Barnes, Martin Geraghty, Scott Gray, Roger Langridge Harriet Newby-Hill and Tom Spilsbury.

Notes

  • This is the second of four collections featuring the run of Eighth Doctor stories and contains 242 high quality printed pages and a new cover by Martin Geraghty and priced at £15.99 (UK).
  • All the comic strip stories featured in this first volume have been cleaned up and are presented as they first appeared in the pages of Doctor Who Monthly (DWM), complete with opening and closing captions.
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