Doctor Who Classic Comics

Doctor Who Classic Comics was a magazine published by Marvel Comics as a sister publication to Doctor Who Magazine. It was launched in 1992 by Marvel UK as collections of strips from earlier tie-in titles, including TV Comic, Countdown and TV Action and, later, strips from Doctor Who Weekly and Doctor Who Monthly. John Freeman, an editor of Doctor Who Magazine, had negotiated the purchase of publishing rights to all of these comic strips.

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Overview[[edit] | [edit source]]

Features[[edit] | [edit source]]

A few issues included telesnaps features, publishing off-air images from missing-presumed-wiped Doctor Who TV stories from the 1960s at the same time that Doctor Who Magazine also ran telesnap features. The magazine also featured articles related to all the Doctor Who comic strip stories, including interviews, listings and a detailed listing feature as well as a small mention of current news and events. Early issues included posters.

Current rights[[edit] | [edit source]]

The publishing rights are now held by Panini, who bought the assets of Marvel UK in the 1990s and still publishes Doctor Who Magazine. Although the title republished the Daleks strip from TV Century 21, those strip rights still rest with Express Newspapers.

Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Polystyle Publications[[edit] | [edit source]]

First Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Doctor	Printed in
The Klepton Parasites	1st	DWCC 2
The Ordeals of Demeter		DWCC 7
Enter: The Go-Ray		DWCC 7
The Trodos Tyranny		DWCC 8
Return of the Trods		DWCC 8
Shark Bait		DWCC 10
The Therovian Quest		DWCC 12
The Hijackers of Thrax		DWCC 13
On the Web Planet		DWCC 13
A Christmas Story		DWCC 15
The Gyros Injustice		DWCC 17
Challenge of the Piper		DWCC 20
Moon Landing		DWCC 22
Time in Reverse		DWCC 22
Lizardworld		DWCC 23
The Didus Expedition		DWCC 24

Second Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Doctor	Printed in
The Extortioner	2nd	DWCC 3
The Trodos Ambush		DWCC 8
The Doctor Strikes Back		DWCC 11
The Zombies		DWCC 17
Master of Spiders		DWCC 18
The Exterminator		DWCC 20
The Monsters from the Past		DWCC 22
The TARDIS Worshippers		DWCC 24
Space War Two		DWCC 25
Egyptian Escapade		DWCC 26
The Coming of the Cybermen		DWCC 26

Third Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Doctor	Printed in
Gemini Plan	3rd	DWCC 1
Timebenders		DWCC 1
The Vogan Slaves		DWCC 1-2
The Celluloid Midas		DWCC 3
Backtime		DWCC 3-4
The Eternal Present		DWCC 4-5
The Arkwood Experiments		DWCC 4
*Sub Zero		DWCC 5
The Planet of the Daleks		DWCC 6
A Stitch in Time		DWCC 7
The Enemy from Nowhere		DWCC 12
The Ugrakks		DWCC 13-14
Steelfist		DWCC 15
Zeron Invasion		DWCC 15-16
Deadly Choice		DWCC 18
Who is the Stranger		DWCC 19
The Glen of Sleeping		DWCC 20
The Threat from Beneath		DWCC 23
Back to the Sun		DWCC 24
The Labyrinth		DWCC 25
The Spoilers		DWCC 27
The Vortex
The Unheard Voice

Fourth Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Doctor	Printed in
Death Flower	4th	DWCC 5-6
Woden's Warriors		DWCC 14
Return of the Daleks		DWCC 17
The Wreckers		DWCC 19

The Daleks[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Featuring	Printed in	Released
The Amaryll Challenge		DWCC 1-2
The Penta Ray Factor		DWCC 2-3
Plague of Death		DWCC 3-4
The Menace of the Monstrons		DWCC 4-5
Eve of War		DWCC 6
The Archives of Phryne		DWCC 6
The Rogue Planet		DWCC 8
Impasse		DWCC 12
The Terrorkon Harvest		DWCC 14
Legacy of Yesteryear		DWCC 15-16
Shadow of Humanity		DWCC 17
The Emissaries of Jevo		DWCC 18
The Road to Conflict		DWCC 19

Dell Comics[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Doctor	Featuring	Printed in	Released
Dr. Who and the Daleks	Dr. Who	Barbara, Susan, Ian, Daleks	DWCC 9

Doctor Who Magazine[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Doctor	Featuring	Printed in
Timeslip	4th	K9 Mark II, First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor	DWCC 27
Doctor Who and the Star Beast		K9 Mark II, Sharon	DWCC 25-26
The Neutron Knights			DWCC 9
The Tides of Time	5th	Sir Justin of Wells, Shayde, Rassilon	DWCC 10-11
Stars Fell on Stockbridge		Max	DWCC 18
The Stockbridge Horror		Shayde	DWCC 21-23
Kane's Story	6th	Peri, Frobisher	DWCC 19
Abel's Story			DWCC 20
The Warrior's Story			DWCC 21
Frobisher's Story			DWCC 22
Exodus			DWCC 16
Revelation!
Genesis!		Peri, Frobisher, Cybermen
Planet of the Dead	7th		DWCC 14
Evening's Empire	7th	Ace	DWCC AHS

Back-up[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Featuring	Printed in
The Return of the Daleks	Daleks	DWCC 23-24
The Final Quest	Sontarans	DWCC 24
K-9's Finest Hour	K9, Fourth Doctor	DWCC 25
Warlord of the Ogrons	Ogrons	DWCC 26

The Incredible Hulk Presents[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Doctor	Printed in
Once in a Lifetime	7th	DWCC 21
War World!		DWCC 21
Technical Hitch		DWCC 24
A Switch in Time!		DWCC 25

Original stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Featuring	Printed in
Beware the Trods!	John Who	DWCC 8
Rover's Return	Lammers	DWCC 13
Last Word	John Who, Gillian Who	DWCC 27

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

A special issue, Doctor Who Classic Comics Autumn Holiday Special, was published midway through the magazine's run. It featured the first (and, until the publication of the graphic novel of the same name in 2016, only) complete publication of the DWM strip Evening's Empire, which had been discontinued after the first chapter had been published, due to production problems. The reference work Howe's Transcendental Toybox (2nd ed.) categorises this issue as a graphic novel.

Cover gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]