Torchwood The Official Magazine

Torchwood Magazine — known formally by the title — was a British magazine about Torchwood published by Titan. It had a run of twenty-five regular issues, along with two yearbooks, cover dated from January 2008 until December 2010. It therefore focused only on the first three series of Torchwood and folded around the time Torchwood: Miracle Day was entering production.
Until August 2016, it was the major source of comic stories involving the characters and situations of Torchwood, before Titan Comics started publishing their own comic series.
== Publication history ==
The first issue was released on 24 January 2008. A United States version was due to be launched in February 2008, but was not; instead, the UK version was imported to North America for a time (much like Doctor Who Magazine) although it was not widely circulated in North America after early 2009.
Although not connected to Doctor Who Magazine, Torchwood Magazine followed a similar format, featuring behind-the-scenes articles, episode reviews and original fiction in the form of comic strip stories and short stories.
One comic strip arc, Rift War, was later compiled by Titan into a graphic novel and a series of six comics reprinting material from the magazine were due to be released from August 2010.
Initially a four-weekly periodical, it moved to an eight-weekly basis from Issue 14.
The Torchwood The Official Magazine identity was also used for the Torchwood The Official Magazine Yearbook (2008) and a promotional leaflet for the magazine was included in the series 2 DVD boxset release. In the summer of 2010, Titan's US branch launched Torchwood: The Official Comic for North American audiences, which featured reprints of the magazine's comic strips and short stories; the first issue was cover-dated September 2010.
The magazine was cancelled in December 2010 after twenty-five issues. According to the editorial note in Issue 24, a realignment of Torchwood merchandising for the BBC/Starz co-production of Series 4 was behind the discontinuation, though it was stated that it was hoped the magazine would resume publication; the magazine has not resumed, with DWM taking on the task of covering Series 4 production and broadcast. The cancellation also resulted in the American Torchwood comic book also being cancelled after six issues, before that title was able to reprint all the fictional material from the magazine.
== Comic stories ==
Issues	Title 	Author 	Reprinted in	Collected In
1 	The Legacy of Torchwood One! 	Simon Furman 	 	Torchwood Archives Vol. 1
3 	Jetsam 	Brian Williamson 	 	Rift War
4-13 	Rift War! 	Simon Furman and Ian Edginton	 	Rift War
14 	The Selkie 	John and Carole E. Barrowman 	TTOC 1 	Torchwood Archives Vol. 1
15-19 	Broken 	Gary Russell and Nick Abadzis	TTOC 1-5 	Torchwood Archives Vol. 2
20 	Fated to Pretend 	Brian Minchin 	TTOC 2 	Torchwood Archives Vol. 1
21-22 	Shrouded 	Gareth David-Lloyd 	TTOC 3-4 	Torchwood Archives Vol. 1
23 	Somebody Else's Problem: A Gwen Cooper Story	Christopher Cooper 	TTOC 5 	Torchwood Archives Vol. 1
24 	Hell House 	Roger Gibson 	TTOC 6 	Torchwood Archives Vol. 2
25 	Overture: A Captain Jack Adventure 	Gary Russell 	 	Torchwood Archives Vol. 2
== Cover gallery ==
TWM01.jpg|Issue 1
TWM02.jpg|Issue 2
Magazine-torchwood03l.jpg|Issue 3
Magazine-torchwood04l.jpg|Issue 4
Magazine-torchwood05l.jpg|Issue 5
TWM06.jpg|Issue 6
TWM07.jpg|Issue 7
TWM08.jpg|Issue 8
TWM09.jpg|Issue 9
Magazine-torchwood10L.jpg|Issue 10
TWM11.jpg|Issue 11
TWM12.jpg|Issue 12
Magazine-torchwood13L.jpg|Issue 13
TWM14.jpg|Issue 14
TWM15.jpg|Issue 15
TWM 16.jpg|Issue 16 Regular Cover
TWM 16b.jpg|Issue 16 Collectors Cover
Magazine-torchwood17.jpg|Issue 17
Magazine-torchwood18.jpg|Issue 18
Magazine-torchwood19.jpg|Issue 19
Magazine-tw20.jpg|Issue 20
TWM 21.jpg|Issue 21
TW 22.jpg|Issue 22
TWM23.jpg|Issue 23
TW24.jpg|Issue 24
TW25a.jpg|Issue 25 FINAL ISSUE! Double fronted cover
TW25b.jpg|Issue 25 FINAL ISSUE! Double fronted cover
=== Yearbooks ===
File:TWYB.jpg‎|Torchwood The Official Magazine Yearbook (2008)
File:Book-torchwoodyear.jpg‎|Torchwood The Official Magazine Yearbook (2009)
== External links ==
* Official online site for Titan Magazines, publishers of Torchwood Magazine.
* Official Torchwood Magazine Facebook page.
Category:British magazines