Second Doctor comic stories
The Second Doctor comic stories is a range of offscreen adventures featuring the second incarnation of the Doctor, the hero of BBC 1's longrunning science fiction series Doctor Who. They initially appeared in TV Comic.
History
[edit]The TV Comic version of the First Doctor had had as companions John and Gillian. In 1966, when the Doctor changed his appearance on television and in comics, TV Comic has these characters traveling with the "new" Doctor. They were soon replaced with Jamie McCrimmon, to better match televised Doctor Who.
After the concluding Second Doctor television series aired, The War Games, TV Comic continued to print comics featuring the Second Doctor. The stories followed on from the end of that serial, in which the Doctor's people, the Time Lords had exiled him to the 20th century and deemed that he should change his appearance. These stories ignored the second part of the sentence and had the Second Doctor living on Earth with his old body, at least until the concluding story, in which agents of the Time Lords forced the Doctor to regenerate.
Fans would later use these stories as evidence for a fan theory concerning "Season 6B", first discussed for a wide audience in the 1995 episode guidebook The Discontinuity Guide written by Paul Cornell, Martin Day, and Keith Topping.
The Second Doctor has returned for comics printed in Doctor Who Magazine, IDW Publishing and Titan Comics.
Polystyle comic strips
[edit]TV Comic
[edit]# | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
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1 | "The Extortioner" | Featuring John and Gillian as the Second Doctor's companions. Like other TV Comics stories, this has no official title as the original printing did not contain any. | Roger Noel Cook | 24 December 1966 - 14 January 1967 |
2 | "The Trodos Ambush" | Roger Noel Cook | 21 January - 11 February 1967 | |
3 | "The Doctor Strikes Back" | Roger Noel Cook | 18 February - 11 March 1967 | |
4 | "The Zombies" | Roger Noel Cook | 18 March - 1 April 1967 | |
5 | "Master Of Spiders" | Roger Noel Cook | 8 -29 April 1967 | |
6 | "The Exterminator" | Roger Noel Cook | 6 - 27 May 1967 | |
7 | "The Monsters From The Past" | Roger Noel Cook | 3 June - 1 July 1967 | |
8 | "The TARDIS Worshippers" | Roger Noel Cook | 8 - 29 July 1967 | |
9 | "Space War Two" | Roger Noel Cook | 5 - 26 August 1967 | |
10 | "Egyptian Escapade" | TBA | 2 - 23 September 1967 | |
11 | "The Coming Of The Cybermen" | The first appearance of the Cyberman in comics form and the first original Doctor Who comics in full color. (An American comic book adaptation of the Peter Cushing film Dr. Who and the Daleks produced by Dell Comics had also used full color but did not tell an original story.) | Roger Noel Cook | 30 September - 21 October 1967 |
12 | "The Faithful Rocket Pack" | TBA | 28 October - 18 November 1967 | |
13 | "Flower Power" | The Cybermen return. The first comics appearance of a Cybermat. | TBA | 25 November - 23 December 1967 |
14 | "The Witches" | Roger Noel Cook | 30 December 1967 - 27 January 1968 | |
15 | "Cyber-Mole | The Cybermen return. | John Canning | 3 - 24 February 1968 |
16 | "The Sabre Toothed Gorillas" | TBA | 2 - 23 March 1968 | |
17 | "The Cyber Empire" | The Cybermen return. | TBA | 30 March - 20 April 1968 |
18 | "The Dryons" | TBA | 27 April - 25 May 1968 | |
19 | "Dr. Who And The Space Pirates" | A story unrelated to the television serial The Space Pirates. | TBA | 1 - 29 June 1968 |
20 | "Car Of The Century" | Roger Noel Cook | 6 - 27 July 1968 | |
21 | "The Jokers" | TBA | 3 - 24 August 1968 | |
22 | "Invasion Of The Quarks" | John and Gillian leave the Doctor to go to university. The Doctor meets his old friend Jamie, who replaces John and Gillian as the Doctor's companion. | TBA | 31 August - 28 September 1968 |
23 | "The Killer Wasps" | TBA | 5 - 26 October 1968 | |
24 | "Ice Cap Terror" | The comics return to black and white. | TBA | 2 - 23 November 1968 |
25 | "Jungle Of Doom" | TBA | 30 November - 28 December 1968 | |
26 | "Father Time" | TBA | 4 - 25 January 1969 | |
27 | "Martha The Mechanical Housemaid" | TBA | 1 February - 1 March 1969 | |
28 | "The Duellists" | TBA | 8 - 29 March 1969 | |
29 | "Eskimo Joe" | The Doctor finds a Cyberman base. | TBA | 5 - 26 April 1969 |
30 | "Peril At 60 Fathoms" | TBA | 3 - 24 May 1969 | |
31 | "Operation Wurtlizer" | TBA | 31 May - 28 June 1969 | |
32 | "Action In Exile" | The Doctor now lives on Earth following his exile by the Time Lords. The first of a series of stories which helped to inspire the "Season 6B" fan theory. | TBA | 5 July - 2 August 1969 |
33 | "The Mark Of Terror" | TBA | 9 - 30 August 1969 | |
34 | "The Brotherhood" | TBA | 6 - 27 September 1969 | |
35 | "U.F.O." | TBA | 4 October - 1 November 1969 | |
36 | "The Night Walkers" | The Doctor is again found by the Time Lords and is forced to regenerate. | Roger Noel Cook | 8 - 22 November 1969 |
TV Comic Holiday Special
[edit]# | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
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1 | "Barnabus" | Roger Noel Cook | 1967 | |
2 | "Jungle Adventure" | Roger Noel Cook | 1967 | |
3 | "Return Of The Witches" | TBA | 1968 | |
4 | "Masquerade" | The Doctor and his grandchildren John and Gillian are captured by the Cybermen. | TBA | 1968 |
5 | "The Champion" | TBA | 1969 | |
6 | "The Entertainer" | TBA | 1969 |
TV Comic Annuals
[edit]# | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
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1 | "Attack Of The Daleks" | TBA | 1968 | |
2 | "Pursued By The Trods" | TBA | 1968 | |
3 | "The Time Museum" | TBA | 1969 | |
4 | "The Electrodes" | TBA | 1969 | |
5 | "Death Race" | TBA | 1970 | |
6 | "Test Flight" | The Cybermen return. | TBA | 1970 |
Doctor Who Annuals
[edit]# | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
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1 | "The Tests Of Trefus" | Ben and Polly | TBA | 1968 |
2 | "World Without Night" | Ben and Polly | TBA | 1968 |
3 | "Freedom By Fire" | Jamie and Polly | TBA | 1969 |
4 | "Atoms Infinite" | Jamie and Victoria | TBA | 1969 |
5 | "The Vampire Plants" | Jamie and Zoe | TBA | 1970 |
6 | "The Robot King" | Jamie and Zoe | TBA | 1970 |
Doctor Who Magazine comic strips
[edit]Doctor Who Magazine and Doctor Who Magazine Specials
[edit]# | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
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1 | "Bringer of Darkness" | Jamie and Victoria, the Daleks | Scott Gray | June 1993 |
2 | "Land of the Blind" | Jamie and Zoe | Scott Gray | 16 March - 11 May 1995 |
Special appearance
[edit]# | Title | Featuring | Writer | Release Date |
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1 | "Time and Time Again" | Jamie and Zoe | 1967 |
See also
[edit]- List of Doctor Who comic stories
- First Doctor comic stories
- Third Doctor comic stories
- Fourth Doctor comic strips
- Fifth Doctor comic stories
- Eighth Doctor comic stories
- War Doctor comic stories
- Ninth Doctor comic stories
- Sixth Doctor comic stories
- Seventh Doctor comic stories
- Tenth Doctor comic stories
- Eleventh Doctor comic stories
- Twelfth Doctor comic stories