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Pinnacle Books

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Pinnacle Books was an American book publishing company. From April 1979 to June 1980 they published Americanised editions of ten Target Books novelisations. After going bankrupt in 1985, it was purchaed by Windsor Publishing Corp, which continued reprints until April 1989.

Changes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • New front-cover illustrations by David Mann were used, and new back-cover blurbs were written.
  • The UK English text was Americanised to incorporate US spellings (e.g. "colour" became "color") and terms (e.g. car bonnets and boots became "hoods" and "trunks" respectively). Also, references to certain UK-specific items unfamiliar to American readers of the time were changed (e.g. the Doctor's jelly babies became "jelly beans").
  • The books were prefaced by brief bios of the story's Doctor and companions, and an introduction by noted science fiction author Harlan Ellison. In his introduction, Ellison proclaimed his own fandom of Doctor Who and explained some of the concepts behind the series.[1]

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The Pinnacle book covers bore the same Doctor Who logo as used by the limited-run 1978 Aeonian Press reprints of the Day of the Daleks and Robot novelisations.

The logo was used in various colours on each novelisation. The colour of the logo was usually changed each time a book was reprinted.

Books released[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks
  2. Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon
  3. Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion
  4. Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks
  5. Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen
  6. Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster
  7. Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang
  8. Doctor Who and the Masque of Mandragora
  9. Doctor Who and the Android Invasion
  10. Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom

Cover images[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title 1st printing
1979-80
$1.75
2nd printing
1981-82
$1.95
3rd printing
1983-84
$2.95
4th printing
1989
$3.50
Doctor Who and
the Day of the Daleks
 
Red logo
 
Orange logo
 
Yellow logo
 
Yellow logo
Doctor Who and
the Doomsday Weapon
 
Orange logo
 
Green logo
 
Red logo
 
Red logo
Doctor Who and
the Dinosaur Invasion
 
Blue logo
 
Green logo
 
Blue logo
 
Blue logo
Doctor Who and
the Genesis of the Daleks
 
Green logo
 
Orange logo
 
Green logo
 
Green logo
Doctor Who and
the Revenge of the Cybermen
 
Magenta logo
 
Orange logo
 
Magenta logo
 
Magenta logo
Doctor Who and
the Loch Ness Monster
 
Orange logo
 
Blue logo
 
Yellow logo
 
Yellow logo
Doctor Who and
the Talons of Weng-Chiang
 
Red logo
 
Orange logo
 
Green logo
 
Green logo
Doctor Who and
the Masque of Mandragora
 
Purple logo
 
Orange logo
 
Purple logo
 
Purple logo
Doctor Who and
the Android Invasion
 
Blue logo
 
Orange logo
 
Green logo
 
Green logo
Doctor Who and
the Seeds of Doom
 
Green logo
  
Blue logo
 
Blue logo
 
Blue logo

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

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