DWM 52

The 52nd issue of Doctor Who Magazine was released in May 1981.

Articles

 * ‘Photo-feature: Monster Gallery IV: Foes of the Third Doctor’
 * ‘Cry Havoc - The Stuntmen’

Comic Strip

 * Doctor Who: Spider-God

Fiction

 * None

Archives
DWM Archives (Retelling by episode, with no credits) EPISODE GUIDE (Listing details including dates, episode endings, credits and dates):
 * DW: The Time Monster 
 * The Rescue to The Space Museum

Interviews / Profiles

 * Star Profile: Katy Manning (Actress)
 * Barry Letts (Producer)
 * Photo-file Number 3: Anthony Ainley (Actor)

Previews

 * None

Reviews

 * Season Review and Season Survey

A4 Pin-ups

 * B&W Dalek (DW: Destiny of the Daleks )

Also Featuring

 * Gallifrey Guardian
 * Doctor Who Letters (Letters Page)
 * Matrix Data Bank (Questions and Answers)

Credits
Editor: Alan McKenzie, Layout: Rahid Khan and Jimmy Ross, Consultant: Jeremy Bentham, Publisher: Stan Lee

Additional details

 * Additional Input: Gallifrey Guardian (From DWM 54):
 * The Photo-File on Anthony Ainley contains three errors.


 * 1) His hair is `dark` not `blond`.
 * 2) The part of Tremas was played `in make-up` not `unmade-up`, and
 * 3) The part of the Master is played with `little make-up` not `with dyed hair and a beard`.
 * Special Jon Pertwee themed issue.
 * The year is not included on the front cover.
 * The cover image shows the a Third Doctor publicity shot (introducing the Master) from DW: Terror of the Autons and inset, from DW: The Time Warrior.
 * There is no back-up strip this issue (the pages being given over to the Monster Gallery, but readers are assured they haven’t been abandoned.
 * The retelling of older stories now comes under the heading ‘The Doctor Who Archives’ but doesn’t yet include extra details.
 * Steve Moore leaves as writer of the regular Doctor Who comic strip.
 * Price rise from 30 pence to 35 pence.