The Many Lives of Doctor Who

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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

  • 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.[8]
  • 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".[9]
  • 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 Cushing but we have got War. We haven’t done two Tennant stories – even though apparently he’s two Doctors!"[9]
  • 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.[9]
  • Richard Dinnick was instructed not to make a multi-Doctor story as per Supremacy of the Cybermen or The Four Doctors, but instead, as he said, "standalone stories to show the Doctors in their era, in their comfort zone with their 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 I’d done two quite continuity-heavy stories for [the] 12th Doctor and a standalone that wasn’t". Though he "did put some Easter eggs in for fans".[9]
  • 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.[9]
  • Dinnick "want[ed] to put an element of 13 in each story – for example there’s a story about some aliens that are based on the 13th element of the periodic table", referencing Virtually Indestructible.[9]

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.