CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: MARVEL'S DOCTOR WHO COVER GALLERY

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

MARVEL'S DOCTOR WHO COVER GALLERY - PART THREE...

DOCTOR WHO copyright BBC TV

You're looking at the final eight covers in our three-part DOCTOR WHO cover gallery. This was a title published by MARVEL U.S. in the mid-'80s, featuring coloured reprints of comic strips from Marvel U.K.'s black and white mag devoted to the 'Guardian from Galifrey'. The American version only lasted 23 monthly issues, the British title is still going strong, now published by PANINI.

So tell me, peeps - are you looking forward to the 50th Anniversary show on the 23rd of this month? I know I am! However, I'm also fervently hoping that it isn't a huge disappointment like far too many recent episodes of the BBC programme have been. Let's hope it truly is a worthy addition to the legend that is Doctor Who!

The logo below was used as the back cover on several issues, when not featuring an ad or pin-up illustration.

4 comments:

Steven Docker said...: Looking forward to the 50th anniversary special? Yes. Expecting it to be a bit of a disappointment? Yes. Hoping that I'm dead wrong. Yes. The problem is it has been so over-hyped and every time that happens the relevant episode always seems like an anti-climax. However, if it is as good as The Snowmen was on Christmas day then I'll be happy.

Steve; 12 November 2013 at 17:57
Kid said...: Thing is, 'cos it's in its 50th year, I'm expecting something that will outdo anything ever done before - and that's a pretty tall order. Here's hoping 'though.; 12 November 2013 at 18:27
DeadSpiderEye said...: I quite like the recent episodes but I dropped telly altogether and I've only seen 'em recently. They had things like acting and plot that quite impressed me, there were a few weak ones, Nightmare in Silver and Victory of the Daleks are probably the ones I'd cite. But on the whole I was impressed, especially with the move to more cinematic direction and photography. I was really unimpressed with the Ecclstone/Tennent Who, in fact I might have been moved to destroy an old tv set with a hammer on one occasion.

Getting back to the comics, it's interesting for me because although I appreciated, Dave Gibbons skill, I was never a fan while he was at 2000ad he upped his game for DHW and he completely ripped a hole in the fabric space/time with his magnus opus Watchmen.; 13 November 2013 at 13:37
Kid said...: And not only that, DSE - Dave Gibbons is an ace letterer, too.; 13 November 2013 at 14:07

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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