Doctor Who Classic Comics

Doctor Who Classic Comics was a magazine published by Marvel Comics as a sister publication to Doctor Who Magazine. It was launched in 1992 by Marvel UK as collections of strips from earlier tie-in titles, including TV Comic, Countdown and TV Action and, later, strips from Doctor Who Weekly and Doctor Who Monthly. John Freeman, an editor of Doctor Who Magazine, had negotiated the purchase of publishing rights to all of these comic strips.
==Overview==
===Features===
A few issues included telesnaps features, publishing off-air images from missing-presumed-wiped Doctor Who TV stories from the 1960s at the same time that Doctor Who Magazine also ran telesnap features. The magazine also featured articles related to all the Doctor Who comic strip stories, including interviews, listings and a detailed listing feature as well as a small mention of current news and events. Early issues included posters.
===Current rights===
The publishing rights are now held by Panini, who bought the assets of Marvel UK in the 1990s and still publishes Doctor Who Magazine. Although the title republished the Daleks strip from TV Century 21, those strip rights still rest with Express Newspapers.
==Stories==
===Polystyle Publications===
====First Doctor====
Title 	Doctor	Featuring	Printed in	Released
The Klepton Parasites 	1st 	 	DWCC 2 	
The Ordeals of Demeter	1st 	 	DWCC 7 	
Enter: The Go-Ray 	1st 	 	DWCC 7 	
The Trodos Tyranny 	1st 	 	DWCC 8 	
Return of the Trods 	1st 	 	DWCC 8 	
Shark Bait 	1st 	 	DWCC 10 	
The Therovian Quest 	1st 	 	DWCC 12 	
The Hijackers of Thrax	1st 	 	DWCC 13 	
On the Web Planet 	1st 	 	DWCC 13 	
A Christmas Story 	1st 	 	DWCC 15 	
The Gyros Injustice 	1st 	 	DWCC 17 	
Challenge of the Piper	1st 	 	DWCC 20 	
Moon Landing 	1st 	 	DWCC 22 	
Time in Reverse 	1st 	 	DWCC 22 	
Lizardworld 	1st 	 	DWCC 23 	
The Didus Expedition 	1st 	 	DWCC 24 	
====Second Doctor====
Title 	Doctor	Featuring	Printed in	Released
The Extortioner 	2nd 	 	DWCC 3 	
The Trodos Ambush 	2nd 	 	DWCC 8 	
The Doctor Strikes Back 	2nd 	 	DWCC 11 	
The Zombies 	2nd 	 	DWCC 17 	
Master of Spiders 	2nd 	 	DWCC 18 	
The Exterminator 	2nd 	 	DWCC 20 	
The Monsters from the Past	2nd 	 	DWCC 22 	
The TARDIS Worshippers 	2nd 	 	DWCC 24 	
Space War Two 	2nd 	 	DWCC 25 	
Egyptian Escapade 	2nd 	 	DWCC 26 	
The Coming of the Cybermen	2nd 	 	DWCC 26 	
====Third Doctor====
Title 	Doctor	Featuring	Printed in	Released
Gemini Plan 	3rd 	 	DWCC 1 	
Timebenders 	3rd 	 	DWCC 1 	
The Vogan Slaves 	3rd 	 	DWCC 1-2 	
The Celluloid Midas 	3rd 	 	DWCC 3 	
Backtime 	3rd 	 	DWCC 3-4 	
The Eternal Present 	3rd 	 	DWCC 4-5 	
The Arkwood Experiments 	3rd 	 	DWCC 4 	
*Sub Zero 	3rd 	 	DWCC 5 	
The Planet of the Daleks	3rd 	 	DWCC 6 	
A Stitch in Time 	3rd 	 	DWCC 7 	
The Enemy from Nowhere 	3rd 	 	DWCC 12 	
The Ugrakks 	3rd 	 	DWCC 13-14	
Steelfist 	3rd 	 	DWCC 15 	
Zeron Invasion 	3rd 	 	DWCC 15-16	
Deadly Choice 	3rd 	 	DWCC 18 	
Who is the Stranger 	3rd 	 	DWCC 19 	
The Glen of Sleeping 	3rd 	 	DWCC 20 	
The Threat from Beneath 	3rd 	 	DWCC 23 	
Back to the Sun 	3rd 	 	DWCC 24 	
The Labyrinth 	3rd 	 	DWCC 25 	
The Spoilers 	3rd 	 	DWCC 27 	
The Vortex 	3rd 	 	DWCC 27 	
The Unheard Voice 	3rd 	 	DWCC 27 	
====Fourth Doctor====
Title 	Doctor	Featuring	Printed in	Released
Death Flower 	4th 	 	DWCC 5-6 	
Woden's Warriors 	4th 	 	DWCC 14 	
Return of the Daleks	4th 	 	DWCC 17 	
The Wreckers 	4th 	 	DWCC 19 	
===The Daleks===
Title 	Featuring	Printed in	Released
The Amaryll Challenge 	 	DWCC 1-2 	
The Penta Ray Factor 	 	DWCC 2-3 	
Plague of Death 	 	DWCC 3-4 	
The Menace of the Monstrons	 	DWCC 4-5 	
Eve of War 	 	DWCC 6 	
The Archives of Phryne 	 	DWCC 6 	
The Rogue Planet 	 	DWCC 8 	
Impasse 	 	DWCC 12 	
The Terrorkon Harvest 	 	DWCC 14 	
Legacy of Yesteryear 	 	DWCC 15-16	
Shadow of Humanity 	 	DWCC 17 	
The Emissaries of Jevo 	 	DWCC 18 	
The Road to Conflict 	 	DWCC 19 	
===Dell Comics===
Title 	Doctor 	Featuring 	Printed in	Released
Dr. Who and the Daleks	Dr. Who	Barbara, Susan, Ian, Daleks	DWCC 9 	
===Doctor Who Magazine===
Title 	Doctor	Featuring 	Printed in	Released
Timeslip 	4th 	K9 Mark II, First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor	DWCC 27 	
Doctor Who and the Star Beast	4th 	K9 Mark II, Sharon 	DWCC 25-26	
The Neutron Knights 	4th 	 	DWCC 9 	
The Tides of Time 	5th 	Sir Justin of Wells, Shayde, Rassilon 	DWCC 10-11	
Stars Fell on Stockbridge 	5th 	Max 	DWCC 18 	
The Stockbridge Horror 	5th 	Shayde 	DWCC 21-23	
Kane's Story 	6th 	Peri, Frobisher 	DWCC 19 	
Abel's Story 	6th 	Peri, Frobisher 	DWCC 20 	
The Warrior's Story 	6th 	Peri, Frobisher 	DWCC 21 	
Frobisher's Story 	6th 	Peri, Frobisher 	DWCC 22 	
Exodus 	6th 	Peri, Frobisher 	DWCC 16 	
Revelation! 	6th 	Peri, Frobisher 	DWCC 16 	
Genesis! 	6th 	Peri, Frobisher, Cybermen 	DWCC 16 	
Planet of the Dead 	7th 	 	DWCC 14 	
Evening's Empire 	7th 	Ace 	DWCC AHS 	
====Back-up====
Title 	Featuring 	Printed in	Released
The Return of the Daleks	Daleks 	DWCC 23-24	
The Final Quest 	Sontarans 	DWCC 24 	
K-9's Finest Hour 	K9, Fourth Doctor	DWCC 25 	
Warlord of the Ogrons 	Ogrons 	DWCC 26 	
===The Incredible Hulk Presents===
Title 	Doctor	Featuring	Printed in	Released
Once in a Lifetime	7th 	 	DWCC 21 	
War World! 	7th 	 	DWCC 21 	
Technical Hitch 	7th 	 	DWCC 24 	
A Switch in Time! 	7th 	 	DWCC 25 	
=== Original stories ===
Title 	Featuring 	Printed in	Released
Beware the Trods!	John Who 	DWCC 8 	
Rover's Return 	Lammers 	DWCC 13 	
Untitled 	John Who, Gillian Who	DWCC 27 	
==Notes==
A special issue, Doctor Who Classic Comics Autumn Holiday Special, was published midway through the magazine's run. It featured the first (and, until the publication of the graphic novel of the same name in 2016, only) complete publication of the DWM strip Evening's Empire, which had been discontinued after the first chapter had been published, due to production problems. The reference work Howe's Transcendental Toybox (2nd ed.) categorises this issue as a graphic novel.
==Cover gallery==
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