Fourth Doctor comic stories

The first appearances of the Fourth Doctor across several publishers -- Death Flower in TV Comic, Doctor Who and the Iron Legion in Doctor Who Weekly, and Gaze of the Medusa by Titan Comics.

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The first Fourth Doctor comic story was Death Flower, printed within TV Comic. Other than the main TV Comic magazine, stories would also be printed within the TV Comic annuals and the regular Doctor Who annuals.

Starting with The Duellists in 1978, all comic stories featuring the Fourth Doctor published in TV Comic were simply reprints of older comics from the range with the art altered to resemble Tom Baker. TV Comic ceased to feature Doctor Who comics in May 1979.

Five months after TV Comic stopped releasing Doctor Who comics, Doctor Who Weekly took over as the ongoing regular comic strip. The Doctor Who Weekly comic strip launched with the Doctor travelling on his own. Later a number of new as well as more familiar characters were included. These decisions were largely determined by the issue of image rights, although the writers of said comics were fond of the idea of writing the Doctor on his own.

While stories to feature the Fourth Doctor stagnated after the exit of Tom Baker from the programme, he has been occasionally featured in publications released much later. This has most recently included a five-issue comic series printed by Titan Comics.

Comic strip companions of the Fourth Doctor

Regular

• Sarah Jane Smith (TV Comic, Doctor Who Magazine)
• Leela (TV Comic)
• K9 (Doctor Who Weekly)
• Sharon Davies (Doctor Who Weekly)

One-off

• Andric (TV Comic)
• Miss Young (TV Comic)
• Morris (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Vesuvius (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Adric (Doctor Who Annual)
• Harry Sullivan (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Romana II (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Romana I (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Sean (Doctor Who Magazine)

Fourth Doctor comic stories

TV Comic

Title	Featuring	Printed in	Released
Death Flower	Sarah	1204-1214	11 January - 22 March 1975
Return of the Daleks	Sarah, Daleks	1215-1222	29 March - 17 May 1975
The Wreckers	Sarah	1223-1231	24 May - 19 July 1975
The Emperor's Spy		1232-1238	26 July - 6 September 1975
The Sinister Sea		1239-1244	13 September - 18 October 1975
The Space Ghost		1245-1250	25 October - 29 November 1975
The Dalek Revenge	Sarah, Daleks	1251-1258	6 December 1975 - 24 January 1976
Virus	Sarah	1259-1265	31 January - 13 March 1976
Treasure Trail		1266-1272	20 March - 1 May 1976
Hubert's Folly		1273-1279	8 May - 19 June 1976
Counter-Rotation		1280-1286	26 June - 7 August 1976
Mind Snatch		1287-1290	14 August - 4 September 1976
The Hoaxers		1291	11 September 1976
The Mutant Strain		1292-1297	18 September - 23 October 1976
Double Trouble		1298-1304	30 October - 11 December 1976
Dredger		1305-1311	18 December 1976 - 29 January 1977
The False Planet	Andric	1312-1317	5 February - 12 March 1977
The Fire Feeders		1318-1325	19 March - 7 May 1977
Kling Dynasty		1326-1333	14 May - 2 July 1977
The Orb	Leela	1334-1340	9 July - 20 August 1977
The Mutants		1341-1347	27 August - 8 October 1977
The Devil's Mouth		1348-1352	15 October - 12 November 1977
The Aqua-City		1353-1360	19 November 1977 - 7 January 1978
The Snow Devils		1361-1365	14 January - 11 February 1978
The Space Garden		1366-1370	18 February - 18 March 1978
The Eerie Manor		1371-1372	25 March - 1 April 1978
Guardian of the Tomb		1373-1379	8 April - 20 May 1978
The Image Makers		1380-1385	27 May - 1 July 1978

Reprint stories

• Doomcloud (Mighty Midget Doctor Who comic included with TVC 1292)
• The Duellists (TVC 1386-1389)
• The Amateur (TVC 1390-1396)
• The Magician (TVC 1397-1403)
• The Wanderers (TVC 1404-1408)
• The Metal-Eaters (TVC 1409-1415)
• Moon Exploration (TVC 1416-1423)
• Size Control (TVC 1424-1430)

TV Comic annuals

Title	Featuring	Printed in	Released
Woden's Warriors		Annual 1976	1 September 1975
The Tansbury Experiment	Sarah	Annual 1977	1 September 1976
The Sky Warrior		Holiday Special 1977	1 July 1977
Jackals of Space	Sarah	Annual 1978	1 September 1977
The Sea Devil	Miss Young	Annual 1979	1 September 1978

Doctor Who Annuals

Title	Featuring	Printed in
The Psychic Jungle	Sarah, Harry	Doctor Who Annual 1976
Neuronic Nightmare
The Body Snatcher		Doctor Who Annual 1977
Menace on Metalupiter
The Rival Robots	Sarah	Doctor Who Annual 1978
The Traitor
The Power	Leela	Doctor Who Annual 1979
Emsone's Castle
Terror on Xaboi	Romana I, K9 Mark II	Doctor Who Annual 1980
The Weapon
Every Dog Has His Day	Romana II, K9 Mark II	Doctor Who Annual 1981
Plague World	Adric, K9 Mark III	Doctor Who Annual 1982

Doctor Who Weekly / Doctor Who Monthly / Doctor Who Magazine

Title	Writer	Featuring	Magazine	Printed In	Released
Doctor Who and the Iron Legion	Pat Mills and John Wagner		Doctor Who Weekly	1-8	11 October-29 November 1979
City of the Damned				9-16	9 December 1979-24 January 1980
Timeslip	Dez Skinn and Paul Neary	First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, K9 Mark II		17-18	31 January-7 February 1980
Doctor Who and the Star Beast	Pat Mills and John Wagner	Sharon, K9 Mark II, Beep the Meep		19-26	14 February-3 April 1980
Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom		Sharon, K9 Mark II, Daleks		27-34	10 April-29 May 1980
Doctor Who and the Time Witch	Steve Moore	Sharon, K9 Mark II		35-38	5-26 June 1980
Dragon's Claw		Sharon, K9 Mark II, Sontarans		39-43	3 July-11 September 1980
			Doctor Who Monthly	44-45
The Collector		Sharon, K9 Mark II		46	9 October 1980
Dreamers of Death				47-48	13 November-11 December 1980
The Life Bringer!		K9 Mark II		49-50	8 January-12 February 1981
War of the Words				51	12 March 1981
Spider-God				52	9 April 1981
The Deal	Steve Parkhouse			53	7 May 1981
End of the Line				54-55	11 June-9 July 1981
Doctor Who and The Free-Fall Warriors		Dr Ivan Asimoff, Freefall Warriors		56-57	13 August-10 September 1981
Junkyard Demon		Flotsam, Jetsam, Cyberman		58-59	8 October-12 November 1981
The Neutron Knights		King Arthur, Merlin the Wise		60	10 December 1981
Party Animals	Gary Russell	Seventh Doctor, Ace, Death's Head, Dr Ivan Asimoff, Freefall Warriors	Doctor Who Magazine	173	18 April 1991
Time & Time Again	Paul Cornell	First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Susan, Jamie, Zoe, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, Frobisher, Ace, Benny, White Guardian, Black Guardian		207	25 November 1993
Victims	Dan Abnett	Romana II		212-214	14 April-9 June 1994
Black Destiny	Gary Russell	Sarah, Harry		235-237	18 January-14 March 1996
Doctor Who and the Fangs of Time	Sean Longcroft	Sean		243	29 August 1996
Death to the Doctor!	Jonathan Morris	First Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth 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

Backup

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in	Released
K-9's Finest Hour	Steve Moore	K9 Mark II	DWM 12	27 December 1979
The Touchdown on Deneb-7	Paul Neary		DWM 48	11 December 1980

Doctor Who Yearbooks

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in
Under Pressure	Dan Abnett	Third Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Liz, Jo, Ace, Sea Devils	Doctor Who Yearbook 1992
Rest and Re-Creation	Scott Gray	Leela, Zygons	Doctor Who Yearbook 1994
The Naked Flame		Sarah, Menoptera	Doctor Who Yearbook 1995
Star Beast II	Gary Gillatt	K9 Mark II, Beep the Meep	Doctor Who Yearbook 1996
Junkyard Demon II	Alan Barnes	Flotsam, Jetsam, Cybermen

Doctor Who Magazine specials

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in
The Seventh Segment	Gareth Roberts	Romana I, K9 Mark II	DWMS Summer 1995

IDW publishing

Mini-series and one-shots

• The Forgotten (TF 3)
• The Time Machination
• Assimilation²

Doctor Who (2012)

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

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in	Released
A Rare Gem	Scott & David Tipton	Leela, K9 Mark I, Judoon	POT 4	20 March 2013
Endgame		First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third 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

Titan Publishing Group

Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor

Backup

• Day of the Tune (12D 9)

Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor

Main

• Gaze of the Medusa (4D 1-5 featuring Sarah Jane Smith)

Backup

• Prologue: The Fourth Doctor (4D 4 featuring K9)

Miniseries

• The Lost Dimension (TLD 2, 5, 8 featuring Romana II)

External links

• Altered Vistas - In the Comics - The Fourth Doctor, Part One
• Altered Vistas - In the Comics - The Fourth Doctor, Part Two
• Doctor Who Magazine - Fourth Doctor Strips at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• TV Comic - Fourth Doctor Strips at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• Annuals - Fourth Doctor Strips and Stories at the Doctor Who Reference Guide