DWM backup comic stories

Doctor Who Magazine published a number of comics not featuring the Doctor.

Original stories
Apart from the adventures of the Doctor's current incarnation (at that time the Fourth Doctor), Doctor Who Weekly also presented shorter stories by a different art and writing team, among them the then young and inexperienced comic writer Alan Moore and his later collaborator David Lloyd. These tended to feature well-known villains, such as the Daleks - and later the Cybermen and Sontarans - among others. These appeared regularly until issue 59 with the Doctor serving as "host" of the stories. The characters of Abslom Daak and Kroton eventually appeared in the main strip, and in the case of Daak, in other media.

After the Weekly had developed into Doctor Who Magazine, the back-up strip was used largely as a standalone prelude adventure that would be picked up or referenced in the main Doctor-led (usually epic) comic strip, or when a continuing story got waylaid by production difficulties.

Re-prints
Doctor Who Weekly also presented some reprints. It re-published black and white versions of the The Dalek Chronicles as The Dalek Tapes, and entirely un-related original Marvel Comics science fiction stories and adaptations of classic works as "Tales from the TARDIS". The Doctor also introduced these.

Doctor Who Magazine

 * 1-4: Return of the Daleks
 * 5-7: Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman
 * Introducing Kroton.


 * 8: The Final Quest
 * Sontarans.


 * 9-11: The Stolen TARDIS: A Tale of the Time Lords
 * 12: K-9's Finest Hour
 * 13-14: Warlord of the Ogrons
 * 15-16: Deathworld
 * Ice Warriors and Cybermen.


 * 17-20: Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer
 * 21-22: Twilight of the Silurians
 * 23-24: Ship of Fools
 * Kroton.


 * 25-26: The Outsider
 * Sontaran.


 * 27-30, 44-46: Star Tigers
 * Abslom Daak.


 * 31-34: Yonder... The Yeti
 * 35-38: Black Legacy
 * Cybermen.


 * 40-43: Business As Usual
 * Autons.


 * 47: Star Death
 * Rassilon and the Time Lords.


 * 48: Touchdown on Deneb-7
 * K-9 solo.


 * 49: Voyage to the Edge of the Universe
 * Azal.


 * 50: Crisis on Kaldor
 * Sandminer robots.


 * 51: 4-D War
 * Time Lords.


 * 56: The Greatest Gamble
 * Celestial Toymaker.


 * 57: Black Sun Rising
 * Time Lords.


 * 58, DWMS Winter 1981: Skywatch-7
 * A Zygon.


 * 59: The Gods Walk Among Us
 * Sontaran.


 * DWMS Winter 1981: Tales of the Time Lords: Minatorius
 * 61: Devil of the Deep
 * Sea Devil.


 * 64: Fires Down Below
 * UNIT, Dominators and Quarks.


 * DWMS Summer 1982: The Fabulous Idiot
 * Ivan Asimoff.


 * DWMS Summer 1982: A Ship Called Sudden Death
 * Free-Fall Warriors.


 * DWMS Holiday 1992: City of Devils
 * Sarah Jane Smith and the Silurians.


 * 183: Conflict of Interests
 * Original characters.


 * 215-239: The Cybermen
 * 249-254: Return of the Elders
 * 277: Unnatural Born Killers
 * Kroton and Sontarans.


 * 311: Character Assassin
 * The Master in the Land of Fiction.


 * 318: Me and My Shadow
 * Shayde and Fey Truscott-Sade.