CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: DOCTOR WHO IN TV COMIC

Wednesday, 20 August 2014

DOCTOR WHO IN TV COMIC - PART FIVE...

Bet you thought I'd forgot, but no sirree, not me, not ever. Here are the final pages which complete DOCTOR WHO's first ever comic strip, first seen in TV COMIC #s 685-687, cover-dated January 23rd to February 6th 1965, and as coloured for DOCTOR WHO CLASSIC COMICS #2, published by MARVEL U.K. in 1993.

These tales were simple and unsophisticated, but TV Comic was a children's periodical after all, and no doubt did what it was designed to do - which was to entertain kids in their many thousands. The good Doctor jumped ship over to COUNTDOWN/TV ACTION in 1971, before jumping back on board TV Comic in '73, where he stayed for six more years. In 1979, he got his own comic when Marvel U.K. published DOCTOR WHO WEEKLY, which, in monthly form, is still being published today.

But let us now return to an earlier era, when the Doctor was still a white-haired mysterious stranger, whose history was unknown and whose future was uncertain. Nobody could have guessed he would still be around today, over 50 years later. Enjoy!

2 comments:

John Pitt said...: Still haven't got to the first one I bought yet. It may have been the Zarbi, which I suspect is tantalizingly close. I missed out on the Classic Comics series, so it's great seeing these in colour and following it from the start all over again all these years later. Loads of my favourite comics are re-issued by "Crivens"!!; 20 August 2014 at 13:12
Kid said...: Another tale from TV Comic Annual 1968 yet to come, JP. We're bound to get to those Zarbi strips soon.; 20 August 2014 at 13:24

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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