Doctor Who Classic Comics


 * Not to be confused with Doctor Who Classics, a series launched by IDW Publishing in 2007.

Doctor Who Classic Comics was a magazine published by Marvel Comics as a sister publication to the Doctor Who Magazine.

It was launched in 1992 by Marvel UK as collections of strips from previous Doctor Who titles including TV Comic, Countdown, and TV Action, and, later, strips from Doctor Who Weekly and Doctor Who Monthly. John Freeman, an editor of Doctor Who Magazine had negotiated the purchase of publishing rights to all of these comic strips.

The publishing rights are now held by Panini who bought the assets of Marvel UK in the 1990s and which still publishes Doctor Who Magazine.

Although the title republished the Daleks strip from TV Century 21, those strip rights still reside with Express Newspapers.

Some issues also included telesnaps features, publishing off air images from missing-presumed-wiped Doctor Who TV stories from the 1960s. These dovetailed into those being run in Doctor Who Magazine.

Classic Comics also featured a number of articles that were related to the all the Doctor Who comic strip stories including interviews listings and a detailed listing feature as well as a small mention of current news/events.

Early issues included posters.

A special issue, dubbed the Doctor Who Classic Comics Autumn Special, was published near the end of the magazine's run. It featured the first complete publication of the DWM strip Evening's Empire, which had been discontinued after only the first chapter had been published, due to production problems.