Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher with roots dating back to the 1930s, although it came into its own by publishing a line of popular superhero comics in the early 1960s. Starting in 1979 and continuing until 1995, Marvel's UK branch published Doctor Who Magazine (the licence for the magazine was subsequently taken over by Panini Comics). The magazine included a serialized comic strip, and Marvel's US branch reprinted these in a monthly Doctor Who comic book in the early 1980s. Other Doctor Who-related publications issued by Marvel included the miniseries The Age of Chaos, written by Colin Baker, a graphic novel, Voyager (more reprints from DWM's comic strip), the Doctor Who Year Book - an early 1990s attempt at reviving the Annual format - and Doctor Who Classic Comics, a magazine dedicated to reprinting DWM strips as well as early-era First and Second Doctor strips. Marvel also published the comic Death's Head, which featured cross-overs with Doctor Who.