Panini UK’s latest Doctor Who comic collection, Doctor Who: The Monster Makers, is out soon, and a special variant cover limited edition by David Roach is available to preorder now exclusively from the publisher’s web store.
Moth-plagued mega cities, frozen fairy-tale foes and X-treme, X-ecutive X-tortioners! Join the Doctor and Ruby Sunday as they continue their amazing adventures across time and space in Doctor Who: The Monster Makers, written by Alan Barnes, with art by Lee Sullivan and Mike Collins, and colours by James Offredi.
Manchester, the year 2424 AD, Ruby and the Doctor discover the corruption that lies beneath the city’s surface, and a club so good no one can ever leave. Next, a trip to 1850s Copenhagen where they meet none other than author Hans Christian Andersen – but things take an unexpected turn when Ruby is taken prisoner by a villainous ice queen! Then, Ruby and the Doctor land in a seemingly quaint town that is invaded by monsters over and over again…
Plus! Discover what really happened in between “The Star Beast” and “Wild Blue Yonder”, as Donna and the Fourteenth Doctor bounce through time in a flaming, out of control TARDIS!
This new collection, also available as a more widely available regular edition from book and comic shops, includes a full behind-the-scenes commentary section on the making of these incredible stories.
“The variant edition has a cover drawn by David Roach, with colours by Emily Roach, and is exclusive to the Panini online store,” series editor Ed Hammond tells downthetubes. “It was David’s inspired idea to make it a homage to the Doctor Who Monster Book, and I think it’s turned out really nicely.
“We’ve only printed 350 copies, so it’s strictly limited edition It’s also on sale two weeks before the regular edition.”
The regular edition features cover art by Lee Sullivan and James Offredi.
• Check out Doctor Who: The Monster Makers Variant Cover Edition here on the Panini online store
• Doctor Who: The Monster Makers Regular Edition is available from 2nd September 2025 | ISBN: 978-1804913024 | Buy it from AmazonUK (Affiliate Link)
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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.
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