DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE #500
Available four years ago!
£9.99.
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| Copyright BBC TV. Published by PANINI |
Someone has just pointed out to me that this issue is four years old. I checked - and so it is! However, I took it from the PANINI website where it was showing as a current publication available from June 9th (I think - maybe it was the 8th.) It's now been removed, but it wisnae my fault it was there to start with. Let's just regard it as an instance of time travel.
The biggest issue ever to celebrate 500 editions of DWM! Contents include: Interviews with Tom Baker, Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat; a message to readers from new companion Pearl Mackie; a letter from the Doctor; a 20-page celebratory comic strip, The Stockbridge Showdown by Scott Gray, drawn by a host of guest artists; an exclusive look at Mark Gatiss' 2001 pitch for Doctor Who; Peter Capaldi answers questions once put to William Hartnell; Fact of Fiction on The Day of the Doctor; competitions to win HUGE prizes; a bonus 116-page section looking back at the history of DWM, featuring every single cover and commentary from the editors; plus News, Reviews, Coming Soon, Wotcha... and LOTS of surprises!
Available four years ago!
£9.99.
11 comments:
Is this the same Dr. Who Magazine that was originally Marvel's Dr. Who Weekly or a different Dr. Who magazine? I notice it says BBC above the Who masthead.
Yup, same mag, CJ. Marvel US went bankrupt in the '90s (not because they were in bad shape, but because of the shenanigans of the then-owner) and Marvel UK sort of 'dissolved'. Panini then acquired the license to publish Marvel material in the UK, but as Dr. Who isn't a Marvel character, only the Panini name (along with the BBC's) appears on and in the mag.
So when Dr. Who Weekly morphed into Dr. Who Monthly did the new magazine begin again at No.1 or did the numbering continue from the weekly? Because if it's the latter it means I owned the very first issue of this magazine now celebrating its' 500th issue.
By the way, studying the cover I can't see the current Doctoress anywhere.
As far as I remember, CJ (without emptying a cupboard to check), the monthly continued the numbering of the weekly.
She's absent? If only that applied to the show itself I'm bound to say.
That issue is four years old.
So I've taken you four years into the past - and some people say time travel isn't real, eh?
That would explain the curious absence of Jodie Whittaker on the cover.
It sure would, CJ. However, it doesn't explain why a four year old mag would be listed as a new one on the Panini site.
They are probably wishing they could stop the mag at that point before the show self destructed. Believe it now has a transgender character in it.
I wish the show had ended with the Christmas episode featuring Peter Capaldi and David Bradley, LH - before the regeneration scene. Haven't watched it since.
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