Seventh Doctor comic stories

The Seventh Doctor comic stories is a wide range of comic strip adventures featuring the seventh incarnation of The Doctor, the Time Lord protagonist of the hit sci-fi series, Doctor Who.

History[edit]

Doctor Who Magazine's Seventh Doctor comic stories began shortly after the broadcast of the Seventh Doctor's first televised story, Time and the Rani. While the cancellation of the television series in 1989 was undoubtedly bad news for Sylvester McCoy's longevity in the role, it was an unexpected boon to the Seventh Doctor's comic life. With no new Doctor on the horizon, the Seventh Doctor lived on in the pages of DWM for years after the transmission of his final televised adventure.

In fact, the Seventh Doctor became the first incarnation of the Doctor to be in two regular comic publications simultaneously. Pre-figuring the Tenth Doctor's later "double-duty" in DWM and Doctor Who Adventures, the Seventh Doctor was, briefly, in both DWM and The Incredible Hulk Presents, another Marvel publication.

Several different approaches were taken by DWM during this era. At first, they told stories which had no obvious connection to the television series. Frobisher briefly ushered in the new Doctor's era, before scampering off. The Doctor then travelled around either on his own or with one-off companions.

After the television series ended, and the Virgin New Adventures series began, there was an effort to try to fit the comic stories into the novels' continuity. This period, though, came to a definitive end when DWM killed off Ace in Ground Zero — an act which deliberately returned DWM to its own, separate continuity.

By this stage, however, DWM had taken the editorial decision to consider the Seventh Doctor as a "past" incarnation. They began to use the comic space to tell stories of the other incarnations, which gave modern artists and writers the chance to feature Doctors and companions who hadn't really been a part of the DWM strip before. Thus, though the Seventh Doctor had a much longer reign in comics than television, it was a few years shorter than the gap between Survival and McGann's televised outing.

Comic stories[edit]

Doctor Who Magazine[edit]

#	Title	Featuring	Writer	Release Date
1	"A Cold Day in Hell"	Frobisher and Olla, and Ice Warriors	Simon Furman	November 1987 - February 1988
2	"Redemption!"	Olla	Simon Furman	March 1988
3	"The Crossroads of Time"	Death’s Head	Simon Furman	April 1988
4	"Claws of the Klathi"	TBA	Mike Collins	May - July 1988
5	"Culture Shock"	TBA	Grant Morrison	August 1988
6	"Keepsake"	TBA	Simon Furman	September 1988
7	"Planet of the Dead"	Adric, Sara Kingdom, Jamie McCrimmon, Katarina and Frobisher	John Freeman	October - November 1988
8	"Echoes of the Mogor"	Commander Hurd	Dan Abnett	December 1988 - January 1989
9	"Time and Tide"	TBA	Richard Alan & John Carnell	February - March 1989
10	"Follow That TARDIS"	The Meddling Monk	John Carnell	April 1989
11	"Invaders from Gantac"	Alex Trench	Alan Grant	May - July 1989
12	"Nemesis of the Daleks"	The Daleks	Steve Alan	September - December 1989
13	"Stairway to Heaven"	TBA	John Freeman	January 1990
14	"Train-Flight"	Sarah Jane Smith	Graham S. Brand & Andrew Donkin	April - June 1990
15	"Doctor Conkerer"	TBA	Ian Rimmer	July 1990
16	"Fellow Travellers"	Ace	Andrew Cartmel	8 September - 31 October 1990
17	"Distractions"	Ace	Dan Abnett	December 1990
18	"The Mark of Mandragora"	Ace and UNIT	Dan Abnett	January - April 1991
19	"Party Animals"	Ace and Dr Ivan Asimoff, and the Sixth Doctor	Gary Russell	May 1991
20	"The Chameleon Factor"	Ace	Paul Cornell	June 1991
21	"Seaside Rendezvous"	Ace	Paul Cornell	June 1991
22	"The Good Soldier"	Ace and the Cybermen	Andrew Cartmel	July - October 1991
23	"A Glitch in Time"	Ace	John Freeman	October 1991
24	"The Grief"	Ace	Dan Abnett	April - June 1992
25	"Ravens"	Christine Jenkins	Alan Cartmel	July - September 1992
26	"Memorial"	Ace	Warwick Gray	October 1992
27	"Cat Litter"	Ace	Marc Platt	October 1992
28	"Flashback"	Bernice Summerfield and The Master	Warwick Gray	November 1992
29	"Pureblood"	Bernice and the Sontarans	Dan Abnett	November 1992 - February 1993
30	"Emperor of the Daleks"	Bernice, Peri Brown, and Davros and the Daleks	Paul Cornell	March - August 1993
31	"Final Genesis"	Bernice, Ace and the Brigadier, and Silurians and Sea Devils	Warwick Gray	September - December 1993
32	"Time and Time Again"	Ace, Bernice, Daleks and the past six Doctors	Paul Cornell	December 1993
33	"Cuckoo"	Ace and Bernice	Dan Abnett	January - March 1994
34	"Uninvited Guests"	The Eternals	Warwick Gray	April 1994
35	"Plastic Millenium"	Melanie Bush, and the Autons	Gareth Roberts	October 1994
36	"Ground Zero"	Ace, Sarah Jane Smith, Peri Brown & Susan Foreman	Scott Gray	May - August 1996
37	"The Last Word"	Ace and Bernice	Gareth Roberts	June 2001

Death's Head[edit]

#	Title	Featuring	Writer	Release Date
8	"Time Bomb!"	Death's Head and Josiah Dogbolter	Simon Furman	July 1989

Titan Comics[edit]

#	Title	Featuring	Writer	Release Date
1	"Operation Volcano"	Ace and Counter-Measures	Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel	2018
1	"As Time Goes By"	Ace and Mags (the werewolf)	Richard Dinnick	2018

The Incredible Hulk Presents[edit]

#	Title	Featuring	Writer	Release Date
1	"Once in a Lifetime"	TBA	John Freeman	7 October 1989
2	"Hungers from the End of Time"	Commander Lumsden	Dan Abnett	14 - 21 October 1989
3	"War World"	Commander Deldran	John Freeman	28 October 1989
4	"Technical Hitch"	Admiral Vayle	Dan Abnett	4 November 1989
5	"A Switch in Time"	Thyron	John Freeman	11 November 1989
6	"The Sentinel"	Seneschal	John Tomlinson	18 November 1989
7	"Who's That Girl?"	Prince Luj	Simon Furman	25 November - 2 December 1989
8	"The Enlightenment of Ly-Chee The Wise"	TBA	Simon Jowett	9 December 1989
9	"Slimmer"	TBA	Mike Collins & Tim Robins	16 December 1989
10	"Nineveh"	Time Lords	John Tomlinson	23 December 1989