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Somewhat after the broadcast of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' television story ''[[Time and the Rani]]'', ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''{{'}}s '''{{PAGENAME}}''' began. While the cancellation of the ''Doctor Who'' television series was undoubtedly bad news for [[Sylvester McCoy]]'s longevity in the role, it was an unexpected boon to the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s comic life. With no new Doctor on the horizon, the Seventh Doctor lived on in the pages of ''DWM'' for years after the transmission of McCoy's final regular appearance on TV in ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'' in 1989. | |||
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While the cancellation of the television series was undoubtedly bad news for [[Sylvester McCoy]]'s longevity in the role, it was an unexpected boon to the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s comic life. With no new Doctor on the horizon, the Seventh Doctor lived on in the pages of ''DWM'' for years after the transmission of [[Survival| | |||
In fact, the Seventh Doctor became the first incarnation of the Doctor to be in two regular comic publications simultaneously. Pre-figuring the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s later "double-duty" in ''DWM'' and ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'', the Seventh Doctor was, briefly, in both ''DWM'' and ''[[The Incredible Hulk Presents]]'', another [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] publication. | In fact, the Seventh Doctor became the first incarnation of the Doctor to be in two regular comic publications simultaneously. Pre-figuring the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s later "double-duty" in ''DWM'' and ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'', the Seventh Doctor was, briefly, in both ''DWM'' and ''[[The Incredible Hulk Presents]]'', another [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] publication. | ||
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After the television series ended, and the [[Virgin New Adventures]] series began, there was an effort to try to fit the comic stories into the novels' continuity. This period, though, came to a definitive end when ''DWM'' killed off Ace in ''[[Ground Zero]]'' — an act that deliberately returned ''DWM'' to its own, separate continuity. | After the television series ended, and the [[Virgin New Adventures]] series began, there was an effort to try to fit the comic stories into the novels' continuity. This period, though, came to a definitive end when ''DWM'' killed off Ace in ''[[Ground Zero]]'' — an act that deliberately returned ''DWM'' to its own, separate continuity. | ||
By this stage, however, ''DWM'' had taken the editorial decision to consider the Seventh Doctor as a "past" incarnation. They began to use the comic space to tell stories of the other incarnations, which gave modern artists and writers the chance to feature Doctors and companions who hadn't really been a part of the ''DWM'' strip before. Thus, though the Seventh Doctor had a much longer reign in comics than television, it was a few years shorter than the gap between '' | By this stage, however, ''DWM'' had taken the editorial decision to consider the Seventh Doctor as a "past" incarnation. They began to use the comic space to tell stories of the other incarnations, which gave modern artists and writers the chance to feature Doctors and companions who hadn't really been a part of the ''DWM'' strip before. Thus, though the Seventh Doctor had a much longer reign in comics than television, it was a few years shorter than the gap between ''Survival'' and the 1996 ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'' TV movie, where the Seventh Doctor [[Regeneration|regenerated]] into the [[Eighth Doctor|Eighth]] on-screen. By contrast, the Eighth Doctor's era ended only when the [[Ninth Doctor]]'s began in the 2005 episode ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''. | ||
== Comic strip companions of the Seventh Doctor == | == Comic strip companions of the Seventh Doctor == | ||
