It’s back to the 1970s for the TARDIS journey we never saw this week, as Doctor Who Magazine exclusively reveals the story behind a bizarre and long-lost adventure starring Tom Baker as the Doctor!
Unfortunately, there’s no full comic strip this issue, although we do get more of Lew Stringer’s bonkers “Daft Dimension” cartoon on the Letters Page – but the main strip is back and firing on all cylinders in September, as we previously reported.
• Doctor Who Magazine Issue 555 is on sale in newsagents and supermarkets Thursday 20th August 2020. Order it online or subscribe at doctorwhomagazine.com
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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.
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