DWMS Summer 1980

Articles

 * `The Monsters of Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks' by B.Aldrich and G. Blows
 * (Reprinted from DWM Issue 1)


 * `The Monsters of Doctor Who: The Cybermen` by Gordon Blows
 * (Reprinted from DWM Issue 2)

Comic Strips

 * The Iron Legion
 * (Reprinted from DWM Issues 1-8)


 * K-9's Finest Hour
 * (Reprinted from DWM Issue 12)

Fiction

 * None

Archives

 * None

Interviews / Profiles

 * None

Previews

 * None

Reviews

 * None

A4 Pin-ups

 * B&W William Hartnell 1963-1966
 * B&W Patrick Troughton 1966-1969
 * B&W Jon Pertwee 1970-1974
 * B&W Tom Baker 1974 to present

Also Featuring

 * None

Further Information

 * Holiday Specials were tradition bumper sized comics/magazines from the publishers of regular titles. Produced twice yearly they were generally released around Summer and Autumn time in time for the school summer holidays and the Christmas holiday period.
 * With a cover heading of “Doctor Who Summer Special: The Best of Doctor Who Weekly”, this first Summer Special offered no new material (with the exception of a cover by Dave Gibbons), than that already printed in the pages of Doctor Who Weekly (or Doctor Who Magazine as it later became).
 * Popular at the time it was unusual for the Holiday Special titles not to offer something new, and it was some holiday issues later that new material began to appear. Indeed one Special offered the concluding half of a comic strip story in an attempt to capture both new and regular readers.
 * This was the first of many appearances of the popular comic strip compilation of the The Iron Legion story (Marvel Comics’ first Doctor Who comic strip story), along with Daleks, Cybermen and K-9 also featuring, this issue was guaranteed to be popular with viewers of the show.
 * This standard sized magazine was printed in June 1980 and had a cover price of 40p (UK)