John Canning

John Canning was a TV Comic artist who worked on the Doctor Who comics through all four incarnations the comic covered. Canning also overlayed new artwork on resized reprints. The primary change to these older strips, usually those illustrated by Gerry Haylock, was that the Fourth Doctor's likeness replaced that of one of his previous incarnations. The first reprints of this sort were published in the Doctor Who Mighty Midget Comic and the Doctor Who Winter Special 1977.

During the run of TV Comic, Canning illustrated numerous strips including Tarzan, Charlies Angels, The Avengers and Cannon. While, for a time, the weekly comic opted to reprint 1960s-published US Star Trek strips, Canning illustrated an original, full-colour adventure in the Mighty TV Comic Annual, meaning he is one of the few comic strip artists to work on both franchises.

Bibliography

First Doctor comics

• The Trodos Tyranny
• The Secret of Gemino
• Guests of King Neptune
• The Gaze of the Gorgon
• The Haunted Planet
• The Hunters of Zerox
• The Underwater Robot
• Return of the Trods
• The Galaxy Games
• The Experimenters
• Deadly Vessel

Second Doctor comics

• The Extortioner
• The Trodos Ambush
• The Doctor Strikes Back
• The Zombies
• Master of Spiders
• The Exterminator
• The Monsters from the Past
• The TARDIS Worshippers
• Space War Two
• Egyptian Escapade
• The Coming of the Cybermen
• The Faithful Rocket Pack
• Flower Power
• The Witches
• Cyber-Mole
• The Sabre-Toothed Gorillas
• The Cyber Empire
• The Dyrons
• Dr. Who and the Space Pirates
• Car of the Century
• The Jokers
• Invasion of the Quarks
• The Killer Wasps
• Ice Cap Terror
• Jungle of Doom
• The Electrodes
• The Time Museum
• Father Time
• Martha the Mechanical Housemaid
• The Duellists
• Eskimo Joe
• Peril at 60 Fathoms
• Operation Wurlitzer
• Action in Exile
• The Mark of Terror
• The Brotherhood
• U.F.O.
• The Night Walkers
• Death Race
• Test Flight

Third Doctor comics

• The Arkwood Experiments
• The Multi-Mobile
• Insect
• The Metal Eaters
• The Fishmen of Carpantha
• Doctor Who and the Rocks from Venus
• Doctor Who and the Robot
• Trial of Fire
• Castaway
• Levitation
• The Kingdom Builders

Fourth Doctor comics

• The Emperor's Spy
• The Sinister Sea
• The Space Ghost
• The Dalek Revenge
• Virus
• Treasure Trail
• Hubert's Folly
• Counter-Rotation
• Mind Snatch
• The Hoaxers
• The Mutant Strain
• Doomcloud (retouched original artist's work)
• Double Trouble
• The Tansbury Experiment
• Dredger
• The False Planet
• The Fire Feeders
• Kling Dynasty
• The Sky Warrior
• The Orb
• The Mutants
• The Devil's Mouth
• The Labyrinth (retouched original artist's work)
• Invasion (retouched original artist's work)
• The Spoilers (retouched original artist's work)
• Who is the Stranger (retouched original artist's work)
• The Aqua-City
• The Snow Devils
• The Space Garden
• The Eerie Manor
• Guardian of the Tomb
• The Image Makers
• The Unheard Voice (retouched original artist's work)
• The Duellists (Canning retouched his own art)
• The Amateur (retouched original artist's work)
• The Magician (retouched original artist's work)
• The Wanderers (retouched original artist's work)
• The Sea Devil
• The Metal Eaters (retouched original artist's work)
• Moon Exploration (retouched original artist's work)
• Size Control (retouched original artist's work)