Doctor Who Classics


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

Doctor Who Classics from IDW Publishing, is a USA only title, reprinting the early Doctor Who Magazine stories.

Overview
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. These began with The Iron Legion. (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.) Each issue regularly features 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.

Doctor Who Classics 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 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 in December 2008, and a third announced for release in May 2009. 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 was published beginning in December 2008. As of March 2009 at least six issues have been announced, which will carry the reprint line into the Fifth Doctor era.

Cover Gallery

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

External inks

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