Doctor Who Classics


 * ''Not to be confused with the 1990s Marvel Comics publication, Doctor Who Classic Comics


 * Launch issue December 2007
 * Published by IDW Publishing.
 * Every Monthly priced $3.99 (USA)

Overview

 * Doctor Who Classics from IDW Publishing, is a USA only title, reprinting the early Doctor Who Magazine comic strip stories featuring the Fourth Doctor (the first Doctor to have really had any level of recognition in the United States).
 * Like earlier USA reprints (see Doctor Who Premiere and Doctor Who the comic strip stories were reprinted complete with opening and closing captions, re-coloured and featured all-new, colour cover interpretations.
 * The stories in the initial issues have now appeared at least three times in reprint editions, including the Marvel Comics releases Marvel Premiere and Doctor Who in the 1980s and Panini's current series of large-format reprint editions, which are also available in the US.
 * It was one of two titles launched in the 2007/2008 period (the other being Doctor Who which a few months later, and featured new Tenth Doctor comic strip adventures.
 * Each issue regularly featured some 32 full colour quality printed pages of which 22 featured re-coloured comic strip adventures, next issue page, IDWords (news and interviews from IDW Publishing), and 9 pages promoting other titles.
 * Each issue was available with two covers a regular cover and the other featuring a  retailer incentive retro art cover
 * In July 2008 IDW, in keeping with current standard practice for comic book publishers in America, compiled the first half-dozen issues of Doctor Who Classics into a single graphic novel release, Doctor Who Classics Vol. 1, with a second volume scheduled for release later in the year.
 * In October 2008, IDW suspended Doctor Who Classics for two months, replacing it with a specialty reprint title Grant Morrison's Doctor Who. Following the two-issue run of that special, a Doctor Who Classics Series 2 has been announced for publication beginning in December 2008.

Cover Gallery

 * Follow the links below for coverage of each issue with contents and further information.

External inks

 * 1) |www.IDWpublishing.com The IDW publishing site with news, information and previews of all its titles].