Just to add to the list of Doctor Who first issue covers from Titan Comics, the company is to release these limited edition UK exclusive editions with photo cover variants. Only 1000 copies of each edition will be available when the first issues of their Tenth and Eleventh Doctor series launch next month (23rd July), presumably because of previously-announced limitations on their UK distribution for the physical editions of the new comics.

Titan also recently released details of the first issue of their upcoming Twelfth Doctor series which launches in October, written by Robbie Morrison (Drowntown, The Authority, 2000AD, Nikolai Dante) and drawn by Dave Taylor (Batman: Death by Design; 2000AD). So far, six variant covers have been announced.

Freshly regenerated and with a new head full of unanswered questions, the Doctor (as played by Peter Capaldi) whisks Clara Oswald (as played by Jenna Coleman) away to a strange and distant world for a five-issue series.

Clara thought she was in for an evening of marking essays on the Metaphysical Poets, followed by going out on a date – or at least trying to. You know, normal stuff.

Instead, she’s facing down exotic flora and fauna in her best dress, backing up the Doctor on a trek through traumatically alien undergrowth – and she doesn’t even know what the Doctor is searching for, or what will try to kill them should they find it!

New Face! New Doctor! New Beginning! Get in on the ground floor of this amazing ongoing series!

The variant covers include a freely-orderable variant featuring Peter Capaldi’s own teenage fan-art of the TARDIS, and a beautiful new painting from Alice X. Zhang.

John Freeman

The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.

He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.

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Tags: Alice X. Zhang, Dave Taylor, Peter Capaldi, Robbie Morrison, SF Comics, Titan Comics