Doctor Who Magazine: No 243

Articles

 * The Monsters of Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks by B.Aldrich and G. Blows

Comic Strips

 * Doctor Who and the Iron Legion (Part One)
 * The Return of the Daleks (Part One)
 * Tales from the TARDIS: War of the Worlds by H.G.Wells (Part One)

Fiction

 * Journal Entry 2481/B-3: The Doctor's escape from the Vogan Space Platform
 * Journal Entry 3512/A-7: The Doctor escape from Magnon 5

Archives

 * The Story of Doctor Who

Interviews / Profiles

 * William Hartnell (Photo-file Number 1)

Previews

 * None

Reviews

 * None

A4 Pin-ups

 * None

Additional features

 * A Letter From the Doctor
 * Crazy Caption Competition (£5 to be won)

Further Information

 * After noticing the popularity of Doctor Who related content in the Marvel UK magazine Starburst, the then editor Dez Skinn created Doctor Who Weekly. Available every Thursday the new title offered comic strips, features and pin-ups.
 * The main comic strip (featuring the Doctor) was to be treated as serious science-fiction and not as juvenile adventures as previously had appeared in Polystyles TV Comic.
 * The supporting comic strip presented under the heading 'Tales From the TARDIS' featured previously issued material with opening and closing boxes redrawn and tailored specifically for inclusion in the pages of Doctor Who Weekly.
 * Unlike previous Doctor Who comic strips the lead character was to be referred to as `the Doctor' and not `Doctor Who'.
 * This Fantastic First Issue had free transfers selotaped to the cover that could be used on Dave Gibbsons' full-colour page panoramas on the inside cover (see above Fiction).
 * The photo-file feature on William Hartnell carries a note that reads "to the memory of whom this first issue is respectfully dedicated."
 * The cover uses a publicity shot taken for the new Fourth Doctor, with a Dalek from : Genesis of the Daleks.
 * Published every Thursday this issue had a cover price of 12p (UK).
 * This issue was reprinted in December 2004 as a free gift with Doctor Who Magazine: No. 350.

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