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{{Doctor comics}}As with the television series, the [[William Hartnell]] version of the Doctor was '''the original comic strip Doctor'''. However, the actor's portrayal of the character was often lost in ''[[TV Comic]]'', the dominant publication to feature [[First Doctor]] stories. At a superficial level, the character wasn't called "the Doctor", but "Dr. Who". Yet at a basic level, the comics were hampered by the inclusion of two children as his companions. Though they may well have made it easier for kids — the primary target audience for the comic strips — to relate to the Doctor, they made it almost impossible for a well-rounded portrayal of the First Doctor's many qualities. Especially profound was the loss of the Doctor's inherent "grumpiness"; with no adults around, the Doctor had no target for his anger. Thus, the comic First Doctor was reduced to being just a grandfather with a time-space ship.
{{Doctor comics}}As with the television series, the [[William Hartnell]] version of the Doctor was '''the original comic strip Doctor'''.


However, even these two points were somewhat in doubt.
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 Doctor comic stories|Fourth]] and [[Fifth Doctor comic stories|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 (audio story)|A Sting in the Tale]]'' and the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] story ''[[The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas (short story)|The Man Who]]''.


The comic [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] wasn't actually much of a time-travel device. As almost every story was set in the far future, it was little more than a simple spaceship. That threw the First Doctor's inclination towards historical adventures out the window. In addition, his status as "grandfather" was a point of incredulity, as well. How could he be the grandfather to [[John and Gillian]]? What was their relationship to the never-referenced [[Susan Foreman|Susan]]? How did the stories told in the comic strips relate to the television series? These were all questions left completely unanswered.
The First Doctor also appeared in a series of ''[[Give-a-Show Projector]]'' strips in [[1965 (releases)|1965]], which featured the only comics to date of him battling the [[Dalek]]s. He would later be featured in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' adventures both in their main series and in specials.
 
Worse still, the comic First Doctor was deprived even of the [[Dalek]]s. Since [[Terry Nation]] had licensed the comic Daleks to appear only by themselves from 1965 to 1967, the comic First Doctor never encountered them. He was forced instead to repeatedly face the ''TV Comic'' "substitute", the [[Trod]]s.
 
The best the ''TV Comic'' First Doctor could muster by way of resembling himself was a lone story that tied in with an atypical television adventure: ''[[On the Web Planet|Dr. Who and the Zarbi on the Web Planet]]''.
 
It really wasn't until ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' began publishing a handful of original First Doctor stories that the William Hartnell portrayal was really seen in comics. Consequently, most of the First Doctor's companions didn't have their comic debuts until the early 1990s. By then, thirty years after the fact, it was really a case of "too little, too late". Comic readers are ''still'' waiting for the First Doctor to encounter the Daleks.
 
Given these facts, it is perhaps not surprising that, as a matter of ''Doctor Who Magazine'' continuity, the entirety of the First Doctor's ''TV Comic'' run was [[Retroactive continuity|retconned]] out of existence as a dream of the [[Eighth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Land of Happy Endings (comic story)|The Land of Happy Endings]]'')


== Comic strip companions of the First Doctor ==
== Comic strip companions of the First Doctor ==
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=== Titan Comics ===
=== Titan Comics ===
==== Back-up strips ====
==== Back-up strips ====
* ''[[Day of the Tune (comic story)|Day of the Tune]]'' ([[12D 9]], a flashback featuring the first Four Doctors)
* ''[[Prologue: The First Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The First Doctor]]'' ([[10DY2 12]] featuring [[Susan Foreman]])
* ''[[Prologue: The First Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The First Doctor]]'' ([[10DY2 12]] featuring [[Susan Foreman]])


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