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 == Writing and publishing notes ==
-* This is the first cover artwork in the range not to use the Doctor's face, just the iconic aliens. Jon Pertwee's likeness would return in the very next publication, "Planet Of The Daleks", however it would soon afterward become policy not to use the face of non-current Doctors. By 1976, Tom Baker was well established on television as the star of the show, and the BBC held the view that his was the identity which should be promoted. Future novelisations of TV serials featuring past Doctors were therefore liable to boast images of the TARDIS or the starring monster rather than the hero.
+* This is the first cover artwork in the range not to use the Doctor's face, just the iconic aliens. Although Jon Pertwee's likeness would reappear on the cover of the very next publication, ''Planet of the Daleks'', it would soon afterward become policy not to use the face of non-current Doctors in cover artwork. By 1976, Tom Baker was well established on television as the star of the show, and the BBC held the view that his was the identity which should be promoted. Future novelisations of television serials featuring past Doctors would therefore leave the Doctor off the cover altogether, and instead bear images of key characters and/or monsters.
 == Additional cover images ==