Seventh Doctor comic stories: Difference between revisions

Somewhat after the broadcast of ''[[Time and the Rani]]'', ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''{{'}}s '''{{PAGENAME}}''' began. 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|his final televised adventure]].

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.

Several different approaches were taken by ''DWM'' during this era. At first, they told stories which had no obvious connection to the television series. [[Frobisher]] briefly ushered in the new Doctor's era, before scampering off. The Doctor then travelled around either on his own or with one-off companions.

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]]'' — and 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 ''[[Survival]]'' and [[Doctor Who (1996)|McGann's televised outing]]. By contrast, the Eighth Doctor's era ended only when the [[Ninth Doctor]]'s began.

* '''[[Flashback]]''' (DWMS 1992 with Benny)