Wednesday, 20 August 2014

DOCTOR WHO IN TV COMIC - PART FIVE...


Copyright BBC TV.  Art by NEVILLE MAIN

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!





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2 comments:

  1. John Pitt20 August 2014 at 13:12

    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"!!

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  2. Kid20 August 2014 at 13:24

    Another tale from TV Comic Annual 1968 yet to come, JP. We're bound to get to those Zarbi strips soon.

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