Doctor Who Magazine Covers: Readers Top 50 Revealed

By John Freeman on May 18, 2016

Doctor Who Weekly #1

In the run-up to publication of the landmark Doctor Who Magazine Issue 500 (which is out next week and is a real bumper issue), the current editorial team are asking you to vote for your favourite DWM covers.

Doctor Who Weekly Issue 19

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 140 – cover by John Higgins

One of two Spitting Image-inspired covers I commissioned from Sue Moore and Steve Mansfield, two very talented folk who worked on the Doctor Who TV show

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 157 – Cover by Colin Howard

With a massive 54,565 votes cast in the preliminary rounds, the 50 finalists are now ready to be voted on and nedless to say, as one of the title’s former editors, I’m delighted to see that while many favourite covers are photographic, it’s an absolute delight to see several covers I specifically commissioned as editor in the Top 50. Thank you to everyone who voted for these.

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 157 – Cover by Colin Howard

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 239

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 308 – cover by Adrian Salmon

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 311

They include both Spitting Image-style covers featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace by acclaimed designers by Sue Moore and Steve Mansfield – and art covers by John Higgins, Alister Pearson and Colin Howard, some from my era, some later. It’s great to see Adrian Salmon‘s Zygon cover up there, for example.

Well done to you splendid chaps for creating such iconic art! (And smashing to see so many Doctor Who Weekly covers in the mix, too, which include some of my favourites).

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 345

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 400

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 467

Now you need to choose your favourite five from these covers, which have made it through to this final round.

• Vote at the DWM website right now – the poll ends at midnight on Sunday 22 May – and please share this post! #DWM500: http://www.doctorwhomagazine.com/top50/

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as 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.