The Many Lives of Doctor Who

The Many Lives of Doctor Who
Doctor:	Thirteenth Doctor
Key crew
Publisher:	Titan Publishing Group
Release details
Printed in:	13D 0
Release date:	26 September 2018
Format:	Comic - 1 part
ISBN:	9781785868726
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The Many Lives of Doctor Who was solicited as "Issue 0" or "Volume 0" of Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor, published on September 26 2018.

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. It could also be considered the first graphic novel volume of the series given it is a collection of stories relating to the run by proxy and its additional branding as "Volume 0"..
• This comic was announced by Entertainment Weekly exclusively, with exclusive first look images, on 28 June 2018.
• 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".
• 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!"
• 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.
• 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 [he]’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".
• 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.
• 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.