Seventh Doctor comic stories

Somewhat after the broadcast of the Doctor Who television story Time and the Rani, Doctor Who Magazines began. While the cancellation of the Doctor Who television series 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 McCoy's final regular appearance on TV in Survival in 1989.
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 that 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 the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie, where the Seventh Doctor regenerated into the Eighth on-screen. By contrast, the Eighth Doctor's era ended only when the Ninth Doctor's began in the 2005 episode Rose.
== Comic strip companions of the Seventh Doctor ==
=== Regular ===
* Ace (Doctor Who Magazine, Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor)
* Bernice Summerfield (Doctor Who Magazine)
=== One-off ===
* Frobisher (Doctor Who Magazine)
* Olla (Doctor Who Magazine)
* Susan (Doctor Who Magazine)
* Sarah Jane Smith (Doctor Who Magazine)
* Peri (Doctor Who Magazine)
* Ly-Chee (The Incredible Hulk Presents)
* Melanie Bush (Doctor Who Magazine)
== Seventh Doctor comic stories ==
=== Doctor Who Magazine ===
Title 	Writer 	Featuring 	Printed in	Released
A Cold Day in Hell! 	Simon Furman 	Frobisher, Olla, Ice Warriors 	133-133 	8 October 1987-14 October 1988
Redemption! 	Simon Furman 	Olla 	134 	11 February 1988
The Crossroads of Time 	Simon Furman 	Death's Head 	135 	10 March 1988
Claws of the Klathi! 	Mike Collins 	 	136-138 	14 April-19 June 1988
Culture Shock! 	Grant Morrison 	 	139 	14 July 1988
Keepsake 	Simon Furman 	 	140 	11 August 1988
Planet of the Dead 	John Freeman 	First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Katarina, Sara, Jamie, Adric 	141-142 	8 September-8 October 1988
Echoes of the Mogor! 	Dan Abnett 	 	143-144 	10 November-8 December 1988
Time and Tide 	Richard Alan and John Carnell 	 	145-146 	12 January-19 February 1989
Follow That TARDIS! 	John Carnell 	The Monk 	147 	9 March 1989
Invaders from Gantac! 	Alan Grant 	 	148-150 	13 April-8 June 1989
Nemesis of the Daleks 	Richard Alan and Steve Alan 	Abslom Daak, Daleks 	152-155 	10 August-9 November 1989
Stairway to Heaven 	Paul Cornell and John Freeman 	 	156 	14 December 1989
Hunger from the Ends of Time!	Dan Abnett 	 	157-158 	11 January-8 February 1990
Train-Flight 	Andrew Donkin and Graham S. Brand	Sarah 	159-161 	8 March-10 May 1990
Doctor Conkerer! 	Ian Rimmer 	 	162 	14 June 1990
Fellow Travellers 	Andrew Cartmel 	Ace 	164-166 	9 August-4 October 1990
Distractions 	Dan Abnett 	Ace 	168 	29 November 1990
The Mark of Mandragora 	Dan Abnett 	Ace, Captain Muriel Frost, The Brig, UNIT, Mandragora Helix 	169-172 	27 December 1990-21 March 1991
Party Animals 	Gary Russell 	Fourth Doctor, Ace, Death's Head, Dr Ivan Asimoff, Freefall Warriors 	173 	18 April 1991
The Chameleon Factor 	Paul Cornell 	Ace, Second Doctor, Ben, Polly 	174 	16 May 1991
The Good Soldier 	Andrew Cartmell 	Ace, Cybermen 	175-178 	13 June-5 September 1991
A Glitch in Time 	John Freeman 	Ace 	179 	3 October 1991
Evening's Empire (incomplete)	Andrew Cartmel 	Ace, Colonel Muriel Frost, UNIT 	180 	31 October 1991
The Grief 	Dan Abnett 	Ace 	185-187 	19 March-14 May 1992
Ravens 	Andrew Cartmel 	 	188-190 	11 June-6 August 1992
Memorial 	Scott Gray 	Ace 	191 	3 September 1992
Cat Litter 	Marc Platt 	Ace 	192 	1 October 1992
Pureblood 	Dan Abnett 	Benny, Sontarans 	193-196 	29 October 1992-21 January 1993
Emperor of the Daleks! 	Paul Cornell 	Sixth Doctor, Peri, Benny, Abslom Daak, Daleks, Davros 	197-202 	18 February-8 July 1993
Final Genesis 	Scott Gray 	Ace, Benny, Silurians 	203-206 	5 August-28 October 1993
Time & Time Again 	Paul Cornell 	First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Susan, Jamie, Zoe, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan, Frobisher, Ace, Benny, White Guardian, Black Guardian	207 	25 November 1993
Cuckoo 	Dan Abnett 	Ace, Benny 	208-210 	23 December 1993-17 February 1994
Uninvited Guest 	Scott Gray 	 	211 	17 March 1994
Ground Zero 	Scott Gray 	Ace, Susan, Sarah, Peri, Threshold 	238-242 	11 April-1 August 1996
The Last Word 	Gareth Roberts 	Ace, Benny, Timewyrm 	305 	31 May 2001
=== Doctor Who Magazine specials ===
Title 	Writer 	Featuring 	Printed in
Plastic Millenium 	Gareth Roberts	Mel, Nestene Consciousness, Autons	DWMS Winter 1994
Seaside Rendezvous	Paul Cornell 	Ace, Ogri 	DWMS Summer 1991
Evening's Empire 	Andrew Cartmel	Ace, Col. Muriel Frost, UNIT 	DWCC Autumn Holiday Special
Flashback 	Scott Gray 	Benny, First Doctor 	DWMS Winter 1992
Younger and Wiser 	Scott Gray 	Benny 	DWMS Summer 1994
=== Death's Head Vol 1 ===
* Time Bomb! (DH 8)
=== The Incredible Hulk Presents ===
Title 	Writer 	Featuring	Printed in	Released
Once in a Lifetime 	John Freeman 	 	TIHP 1 	7 October 1989
Hunger from the Ends of Time! 	Dan Abnett 	 	TIHP 2-3 	14 - 21 October 1989
War World! 	John Freeman 	 	TIHP 4 	28 October 1989
Technical Hitch 	Dan Abnett 	 	TIHP 5 	4 November 1989
A Switch in Time! 	John Freeman 	 	TIHP 6 	11 November1989
The Sentinel! 	John Tomlinson 	 	TIHP 7 	18 November 1989
Who's That Girl! 	Simon Furman 	 	TIHP 8-9 	25 November - 2 December 1989
The Enlightenment of Ly-Chee the Wise	Simon Jowett 	Ly-Chee 	TIHP 10 	9 December 1989
Slimmer! 	Mike Collins, Tim Robins	 	TIHP 11 	16 December 1989
Nineveh! 	John Tomlinson 	 	TIHP 12 	23 December 1989
=== Doctor Who Yearbook ===
Title 	Writer 	Featuring 	Printed in 	Released
Under Pressure 	Dan Abnett 	Ace, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Jo	Doctor Who Yearbook 1992	1 October 1991
Metamorphosis 	Paul Cornell	Ace, Daleks 	Doctor Who Yearbook 1993	September 1992
A Religious Experience	Tim Quinn 	First Doctor, Ian, Barbara 	Doctor Who Yearbook 1994	September 1993
===  IDW Publishing ===
==== Miniseries ====
* The Forgotten (TF 4 featuring Ace, the first ten Doctors (save the War Doctor), and numerous other companions)
==== Doctor Who (2012) ====
* Dead Man's Hand (DW12 15 featuring Matrix projections of the first eleven Doctors and the War Doctor)
==== Prisoners of Time ====
* Cat and Mouse (POT 7 featuring Ace)
* Endgame (POT 12 featuring Ace, the first eleven Doctors (save the War Doctor), and numerous other companions)
=== Titan Comics ===
==== Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor ====
* Operation Volcano (7D 1-3 featuring Ace)
==== Back-up strips ====
* Prologue: The Seventh Doctor (10DY2 13 featuring Ace)
* Hill of Beans (7D 1-3 featuring Ace)
==== Miniseries ====
* The Lost Dimension (TLD 8)
== External links ==
* Altered Vistas - In the Comics - The Seventh Doctor
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