Doctor Who Classic Comics #05 1993-03-31 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Format: epub

(ZEEE MIGHTY 93 UC ONMIG As TV Comicbecame a “mighty” publication, the Doctor Who strip continued its downward slide. John Ainsworth explores, Polystyle's final association with the Doctot’s comic strip exploits... Polysbyle had made a brave effort to relaunch..2V. Comic. "This, was Svidently the result of a cost cutting exercise: the now renamed Mighty TV Comic Was a folded tabloid newspaper style comic. There were no staples and the paper was ofa very low grade. The vatious {tips were now printed Ab sie, the result heing Wat rather than twenty Ad size pages, readers now had sixteen A3 size pages, Bizger actually meant less! Most of the attractions in this “new" 36 ie 1976, and TV Comie’s publishers omic were either syncicated.stips or reprints. Remarkably Doctor Who seemed to have’survived the Uransition relatively uvseathed. The only major change was that Doelor Who was now on only one page rather than two resultingin stones Ut had become. rather more simplistic and painfully slow in the telling, FREE GIFT. Mighty TV Comic’ fist issue included the traritional free gift. In this instance it was a Mighty Midget ~ Doctor Who Comic. ‘Toe cover was a_ painting by Job Canning, featuring the Doctor gazing down in horror at three Daleks. However, readers may hhave been a lite disappointed to discover thatthe strip stories in the comic hal both heen printed in, the 1974 Doctor. Who Holiday Speical. ‘Toe first was Doomeloud dad the Second a black and white reprint of some of the eatly 7V Century 21 Dalek strips, Originally Doomeloua had featured the Third Doctor. the Brigadier and UNIT. Ror this Might) Midget version, John Canning drew a Hkeness of Tom Baker's face over the top of Jon Pertyee's. This “adaptation” was unfortunately to bea sign of the folure depths to which the regular Step had yet to plummet, Simialy, the Brigadier’s moustache was removed and asses added, transforming hin into General Maxwel-Lennon. Sarah became Joan Brown but since the original ikeness ‘of Bisabeth Sladen was, 80 unlice her, there wasno need to ater, ironically, the Doctor stil refers to his companion as Sarah in one panel ~somaething the editors ‘verlooked by mistake! Despite the fact that Sarah was stil being featured in the regular weekly. strip, Polystyle were evidently unwiling 10 negotiate for the rights 10 use the character in a one-off publication, It had already beer. publicly ‘announced that Sarah was to part company ‘with the Doctor on television, so some readers may well have thought that Joan ‘Brown was to be the new companion! Of course, 8 it transpired, this as not the ‘ease and Doomiclud (Mark I) was to be ‘Joan's one and only appearance. 1 was at about this point thatthe 1977 TY Comic Aronual was published. The sole ecto Who content vas ave page, al colour strip called The Tansbuny Experiment. inthe story, the Doctor and Scab do battle with a rampaging, giant lizard — giant animals of various’ kinds seemed to be a recurring theme in, 7V Consc's Doctor Who adventures.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.