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
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
Doctor Who Magazine
| # | 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
| # | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | "Time Bomb!" | Death's Head and Josiah Dogbolter | Simon Furman | July 1989 |
Titan Comics
| # | 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
| # | 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 |
See also
- List of Doctor Who comic stories
- First Doctor comic stories
- Second Doctor comic stories
- Third Doctor comic stories
- Fourth Doctor comic strips
- Fifth Doctor comic stories
- Sixth Doctor comic stories
- Eighth Doctor comic stories
- War Doctor comic stories
- Ninth Doctor comic stories
- Tenth Doctor comic stories
- Eleventh Doctor comic stories
- Twelfth Doctor comic stories
- Dalek comic strips, illustrated annuals and graphic novels