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 		DayDaleksPinnacle.jpg
Red logo 		DayDaleksPinnacle 2nd printing.jpg
Orange logo 		DayDaleksPinnacle 3rd printing.jpg
Yellow logo 		DayDaleksPinnacle 4th printing.jpg
Yellow logo
Doctor Who and
the Doomsday Weapon 		DoomsdayWeaponPinnacle.jpg
Orange logo 		DoomsdayWeaponPinnacle 2nd printing.jpg
Green logo 		DoomsdayWeaponPinnacle 3rd printing.jpg
Red logo 		DoomsdayWeaponPinnacle 4th printing.jpg
Red logo
Doctor Who and
the Dinosaur Invasion 		Dinosaur Invasion Pinnacle 1st printing.jpg
Blue logo 		Dinosaur Invasion Pinnacle.jpg
Green logo 		TBA.jpg
Blue logo 		Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion Pinnacle edition blue logo.jpg
Blue logo
Doctor Who and
the Genesis of the Daleks 		Genesis Pinnacle 1st printing.jpg
Green logo 		Genesis.jpg
Orange logo 		Genesis Pinnacle 3rd printing.jpg
Green logo 		Genesis Pinnacle 4th printing.jpg
Green logo
Doctor Who and
the Revenge of the Cybermen 		Cyberman Pinnacle 1st printing.jpg
Magenta logo 		Cyberman.jpg
Orange logo 		Cyberman Pinnacle 3rd printing.jpg
Magenta logo 		Cyberman Pinnacle 4th printing.jpg
Magenta logo
Doctor Who and
the Loch Ness Monster 		Lochness Pinnacle 1st printing.jpg
Orange logo 		Lochness.jpg
Blue logo 		TBA.jpg
Yellow logo 		Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster Pinnacle edition Yellow logo.jpg
Yellow logo
Doctor Who and
the Talons of Weng-Chiang 		AmericanTalons.jpg
Red logo 		Talonsofwengchiang.jpg
Orange logo 		Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang Pinnacle 3rd printing.jpg
Green logo 		Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang Pinnacle edition green logo.jpg
Green logo
Doctor Who and
the Masque of Mandragora 		MandragoraUS.jpg
Purple logo 		Mandragora Pinnacle 2nd printing.jpg
Orange logo 		Mandragora Pinnacle 3rd printing.jpg
Purple logo 		Mandragora Pinnacle 4th printing.jpg
Purple logo
Doctor Who and
the Android Invasion 		PinnacleAndroidInvasion.jpg
Blue logo 		Android.jpg
Orange logo 		TBA.jpg
Green logo 		PinnacleAndroidInvasion 4th printing.jpg
Green logo
Doctor Who and
the Seeds of Doom 		SeedsOfDoom Pinnacle 1st printing.jpg
Green logo 		SeedsOfDoom Pinnacle 2nd printing.jpgDoom.jpg
Blue logo 		AmericanSeedsOfDoom.jpg
Blue logo 		SeedsOfDoom Pinnacle 4th printing.jpg
Blue logo

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Full text of Harlan Ellison's introduction to Doctor Who
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