Doctor Who Bulletin
Doctor Who Bulletin, also known as DWB or DW Bulletin, was a Doctor Who fanzine first published in July 1983 by Gary Levy (later known as Gary Leigh).
The publication became well known for taking an often critical, “dissident” attitude towards the series, certainly in comparison to contemporary issues of the DWAS newsletter Celestial Toyroom and Marvel Comics’ Doctor Who Monthly—both of which necessarily required to maintain good relations with either the Doctor Who Production Office or the BBC's commercial wing, BBC Enterprises.
From 1989, in order to help secure the publication’s wider distribution in specialist science fiction bookshops (and to avoid the official opprobrium of the BBC and official licensee Marvel Comics, which could have argued DWB had become a commercial but unlicensed Doctor Who magazine), DWB widened its coverage to include other genre films and television shows. The retitled DreamWatch Bulletin (enabling the retention of the logo-friendly DWB initials) continued until 1994, when the publication was relaunched (with numbering reverting to 1) as a fully-professional, newsstand-distributed magazine titled Dreamwatch.
Dreamwatch was purchased by Titan Magazines in 2001, becoming the company’s response to Visual Imagination's Starburst and Future's SFX. Print publication ceased with issue 150, in 2007; it was succeeded by online publication Total Sci-Fi, which continued until 2011.
Cover gallery
- 4 (November 1983)
- 9 (April 1984)
- 10 (May 1984)
- 20 (March 1985)
