User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20160723045005/@comment-188432-20160723222233
This notion may well be one that confuses newer editors. If it has done so for you, I apologise that it is not more self-evident. However, the rules are set down fairly precisely in T:MAGS -- which reveals that the names of the individual issues should be of this format: SOTC 1.[1]
The purpose of such individual issue pages is largely to document the existence of a piece of merchandise -- the issue itself. The story page, Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story), is there to speak of the narrative, and is generally what is referenced when writing in-universe pages about that story.
However, the issue pages are also extremely useful to have around when:
- Giving credits for people who only worked on a part of a story. This is a frequent condition. An inker, for instance, may have only worked on SOTC 3. In the case of Agent Provocateur, the artistic teams varied almost per-issue.
- Describing the story's publication history, and in particular detailing where reprints were published. A good example is The Tides of Time.
Finally, Supremacy of the Cyberman is not a comic strip but a story. This is not pedantry but precision. Within the Doctor Who franchise, there are strips -- which tend to be parodies like Doctor Who? -- and then there are stories which are told through the medium of sequential art, generally over the course of several issues.
