Comic Books

In 1966, Dell Comics published the first Doctor Who comic book, an adaptation of the Dr. Who and the Daleks movie, as part of the Dell Movie Classics series.

Marvel Comics was next, publishing colorized reprints of Doctor Who Magazine comic strips in four issues of Marvel Premiere in 1980 and 1981. Marvel followed that run with Doctor Who, a 23-issue series that picked up where Marvel Premiere left off and was published between 1984 and 1986. In 1989, Marvel UK published a first-print crossover comic strip featuring the Seventh Doctor and the Marvel character Death's Head in the Death's Head comic book series. Other Marvel titles, such as Star-Lord: The Special Edition and The Incomplete Death's Head have featured reprints of Doctor Who Magazine strips. In addition to their standard comic books, Marvel Adventure Comics from Golden Wonder, a six-issue set of promotional mini-comics, was released in 1986.

In 2007, Idea and Design Works Comics (IDW) started publishing re-colorized reprints of Doctor Who Magazine comic strips in the Doctor Who Classics series. They followed that in 2008 with a series of comic books containing new series strips. Most issues have cover variants, including many Virgin Incentive (artwork only) covers. Both of these lines are currently being published.