Issue No.491 of Doctor Who Magazine is out tomorrow (Sept 17th), and it's gonna be a whopper! As the new series of Doctor Who starts on BBC One on Saturday, the official magazine is a bumper 100 page edition, bagged with a massive free double-sided poster.
It's a fantastic issue with a wide variety of Who-related content packed into its pages. There's the third and final part of the 12th Doctor comic strip Spirits of the Jungle which runs to 12 pages by Jonathan Morris, John Ross, and James Offredi...
As I said, the issue is polybagged, and the bag artwork is what's featured at the top of this post. Inside the bag, the actual magazine has this cover...
...which is in fact a wraparound cover...
Doctor Who Magazine No.491, 100 pages plus massive poster. £5.99. On sale from Thursday 17th September 2015.
Is this any connection to the Marvel Doctor Who weekly that first came out in October 1979 ? Last year I watched the entire series (season ?) of Doctor Who on iplayer on my tablet but I haven't decided whether I'll bother with this one - I think Capaldi's very good in the role though, best since Tom Baker even :)
ReplyDeleteYes, it's the very same magazine. The weekly became Doctor Who Monthly with issue 61 and Doctor Who Magazine later, but it's kept the same numbering and is the longest running publication tied into a TV series. The Doctor Who comic strip has been running even longer as it started in TV Comic in November 1964, moved to Countdown/TV Action in 1971, back to TV Comic in 1973 until 1979, then only a few months break before Doctor Who Weekly started in October 1979.
ReplyDeleteThese days of course there's also the rival publication Doctor Who Comic, published by Titan.
And Doctor Who Adventures for younger readers, which is now also published by Panini.
ReplyDeleteGood to see the "Red For Danger" Supreme Dalek back, ( even though Captain Jack blew him up! )
ReplyDeleteAll this AND the Hachette partwork out again too! I'm in danger of Thrill Overload, as Tharg would say!
I guess there's more than one red Dalek. Bring back Zeg!
ReplyDeleteYou know, when I went to see the first Peter Cushing film on release, I was SO excited when I first saw a red Dalek in it, I actually thought it WAS Zeg at first! That story in TVC21 remains my favourite ever Dalek Comic story to this day! Happy days and happy memories!
DeleteSame here. That image of Zeg fighting the Black Dalek was so powerful. (It's shown on my blog a couple of times if you search for Zeg.) I called my red Dalek Rolykin Zeg when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteBy the way John, you're the only person I know who calls the comic "TVC21". :) Even the editors sometimes abbreviated TV Century 21 to TV21 right from the first issue when they referred to it. But never TVC21. Is it just a habit you formed when you were younger? Not a criticism. Just curious.
I do tend to abbreviate everything for easy typing. I put the C in for the editions when Century was in the title and leave it out when they dropped it. Orally though, I never put a C in.
DeleteI suspect that I may well be the only "DC Th" typer too!
Yeah, I well remember those posts, but time for a revisit, methinks!
"All eras", except the naff Fisher Price "New Paradigm" era. Quietly swept under the carpet, next to the Slitheen XD
ReplyDeleteOtherwise known as the "Tellytubby" Daleks! And under the carpet is the best place for them!!
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