Forum:Who's 60? and WHOAH! (revisted)
If this thread's title doesn't specify it's spoilery, don't bring any up.
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The first subject of our thread today is Who's 60?, a book published in early 2023 by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett via Viking Press Comics. As the back cover advertises, for Doctor Who's 60th Anniversary, Quinn and Howett return to the wacky parallel universe of the old Doctor Who? gag strips to take a look at the new Doctors and share some of their favourite old strips.
The book is a bit meh, with its claim of "looking at the new Doctors" bordering on straight-up false advertising, but let's focus on the question at hand:
Is this thing licensed?
Looking at the copyright page yields no mention of the BBC, but it does credit the rights to Quinn and Howett (in accordance the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988). Whether or not this makes the book coverable to us is not something I can be confident in knowing.
WHOAH there, buddy!
Discussing this issue behind the scenes with Scrooge got me thinking back on another, similar book that I handled the coverage of a few years back: Whoah! - a compilation book of Jamie Lenman's gag series, Doctor Whoah!
Not only was I able to use the book as a reference for every past strip already published in DWM, but I also fully covered the previously-unpublished strips that were in there as a neat extra.
However, my current doubt the of the DW? book got me wondering whether or not this book was ever eligible for coverage to begin with for the same reasons.
The contents of this book are credited to Lenman and Panini Publishing. It goes on to thank Doctor Who Magazine and Panini themselves for helping in the creation of the book. Does that make it licensed collection? WaltK ☎ 23:39, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
