First Doctor comic stories

As with the television series, the William Hartnell's First Doctor was the original comic strip Doctor.

The first appearance of the Doctor in the comic medium. (COMIC: The Klepton Parasites)

The first Doctor Who comics to be printed were those featured in TV Comic. Consistently labeled as little more than the series' title for the entire run, all but one of the original First Doctor stories were given titles much later by comic strip and Who historians. The original comics introduced the characters of the Doctor's grandchildren, John and Gillian, who served as the strip's replacements to Susan Foreman. The strip introduced them as having lived on 20th century Earth before meeting their grandfather, but never expounded on their origins before the comic, nor their relation to Susan. Because of this, stories exploring the Doctor's family or history on Gallifrey have almost consistently "forgotten" about John and Gillian, and the lack of an acceptable "gap" for these stories to take place has often confounded fans interested in the timeline of the Doctor's life (an issue that would continue on through the Fourth and Fifth Doctor's comic adventures). Despite this, John and Gillian's adventures have not gone totally ignored by other stories, being briefly mentioned in such things as the BBC Audio story A Sting in the Tale and the Short Trips story The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas.

The First Doctor also appeared in a series of Give-a-Show Projector stories in 1965, which featured the only comics to date of him battling the Daleks. He would later be featured in Doctor Who Magazine adventures both in their main series and in specials.

Comic strip companions of the First Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Regular[[edit] | [edit source]]

John and Gillian (TV Comic)
Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright (Give-a-Show Projector, Doctor Who Yearbook, Prisoners of Time)

One-off[[edit] | [edit source]]

Susan (Doctor Who Magazine)
Ben Jackson and Polly Wright (Doctor Who Magazine)
Vicki Pallister (Doctor Who Magazine, Prisoners of Time)
Steven Taylor (Doctor Who Magazine)
Dodo Chaplet (Doctor Who Magazine)

List[[edit] | [edit source]]

Many of the early comic strip stories did not have individual story titles so there is no "correct" title for many of the strips. Commentary and listings from older sources may use variant titles.

The titles given below conform to widely accepted titles (as referenced by Jean-Marc Lofficier and revised by John Ainsworth (comic historian)). The titles below were also adopted and used by Doctor Who Magazine and throughout Doctor Who Classic Comics (to which John Ainsworth was a major contributer).
The titles used below are firstly taken from the strip itself or from titles given by the preceding issue. In some cases the writer/artist has been able to provide a title for a given piece of work.

The listing below shows first publication details only. Reprint details can be found by following the story links.

TV Comic[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Featuring	Printed in	Released
The Klepton Parasites	John, Gilliam, Kleptons	674-683	9 November 1964-11 January 1965
The Therovian Quest	John, Gillian	684-689	16 January - 22 February 1965
The Hijackers of Thrax	John, Gillian	690-692	1 - 15 March 1965
On the Web Planet	John, Gillian, Zarbi	693-698	22 March - 26 April 1965
The Gyros Injustice	John, Gillian	699-704	3 May - 7 June 1965
Challenge of the Piper		705-709	14 June - 12 July 1965
Moon Landing		710-712	19 July - 2 August 1965
Time in Reverse		713-715	9 - 23 August 1965
Lizardworld		716-719	30 August - 20 September 1965
The Ordeals of Demeter		720-723	27 September - 18 October 1965
Enter: The Go-Ray		724-727	25 October - 15 November 1965
Shark Bait		728-731	22 November - 13 December 1965
A Christmas Story		732-735	20 December 1965 - 10 January 1966
The Didus Expedition		736-739	22 January - 12 February 1966
Space Station Z-7		740-743	19 February - 12 March 1966
Plague of the Black Scorpi		744-747	19 March - 9 April 1966
The Trodos Tyranny	John, Gillian, Trods	748-752	16 April - 14 May 1966
The Secret of Gemino	John, Gillian	753-757	21 May - 18 June 1966
The Haunted Planet		758-762	25 June - 23 July 1966
The Hunters of Zerox		763-767	30 July - 27 August 1966
The Underwater Robot		768-771	3 - 24 September 1966
Return of the Trods	John, Gillian, Trods	772-775	1 - 22 October 1966
The Galaxy Games	John, Gillian	776-779	29 October - 19 November 1966
The Experimenters	John, Gillian	780-783	26 November - 17 December 1966

TV Comic annuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Featuring	Printed in	Released
Prisoners of the Kleptons	John, Gillian, Kleptons	Annual 1966	1 September 1965
The Caterpillar Men	John, Gillian	Annual 1966	1 September 1965
Deadly Vessel		TV Comic Annual 1967	1 September 1966
Kingdom of the Animals		TV Comic Annual 1967	1 September 1966

TV Comic holiday specials[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Featuring	Printed in	Released
Prisoners of Gritog	John, Gillian	TV Comic Holiday Special 1965	1 July 1965
Guests of King Neptune		TV Comic Holiday Special 1966	1 July 1966
The Gaze of the Gorgon		TV Comic Holiday Special 1966	1 July 1966

Doctor Who annuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Featuring	Printed in
Mission for Duh		Doctor Who Annual 1967

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

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in	Released
Timeslip	Dez Skinn	Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, K9 Mark II	17-18	31 January - 7 February 1980
Funhouse	Alan McKenzie	Sixth Doctor, Frobisher	102-103	13 June - 11 July 1985
Time & Time Again	Paul Cornell	Seventh Doctor, Ace, Benny, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Susan, Jamie, Zoe, Adric, Frobisher, White Guardian, Black Guardian	207	25 November 1993
Food for Thought	Nicholas Briggs	Ben, Polly	218-220	29 September - 24 November 1994
Operation Proteus	Gareth Roberts	Susan	231-233	28 September - 23 November 1995
Happy Deathday	Scott Gray	Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Izzy Sinclair	272	19 November 1998
Death to the Doctor!	Jonathan Morris	Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Steven, Dodo, Jo, the Brig, Romana I, K9 Mark II, Frobisher, Izzy, Rose, Martha	390	13 December - 2007

DWM Specials[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in
Flashback	Scott Gray	Seventh Doctor, Benny	DWMS Winter 1992
Are You Listening?	Scott Gray	Vicki, Steven	DWMS Summer 1994

Doctor Who Yearbooks[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in
A Religious Experience	Tim Quinn	Seventh Doctor, Ian, Barbara	Doctor Who Yearbook 1994

IDW Publishing[[edit] | [edit source]]

Miniseries[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in	Released
The Forgotten	Tony Lee	Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Ian, Barbara, Susan, Jamie, Zoe, Jo, The Brig, Benton, Yates, Romana II, Tegan, Turlough, Peri, Ace, Rose, Martha, Autons, Judoon, Clockwork Droids, Kaldor androids, Es'Cartrss	TF 1 - 6	20 August 2008 - 21 January 2009

Doctor Who (2012)[[edit] | [edit source]]

Dead Man's Hand (DW12 15 featuring Matrix projections of the first eleven Doctors and the War Doctor)

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in	Released
Dead Man's Hand	Tony Lee	Eleventh Doctor, Clara	DW12 13 - 16	18 September - 4 December 2013

Prisoners of Time[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in	Released
Unnatural History	Scott & David Tipton	Ian, Barbara, Vicki, Zarbi, The Animus	POT 1	28 February 2013
Endgame	Scott & David Tipton	Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, all captured companions, Adam, The Tremas Master	POT 12	20 November 2013