Doctor Who: Chronicles Issue 12: 1972 has just been published, Doctor Who Magazine publisher Panini’s latest 116-page bookazine, this time around examining the world of Jon Pertwee’s Doctor Who during 1972.
In addition to features on the series stars and stories, it includes a feature on one of the Doctor Who comic artists at the time, Gerry Haylock.
Season Nine offered viewers some much-needed glamour and excitement amid the economic gloom of the early 1970s. In episodes that played like a colourful comic strip brought to life on the screen, the debonair Doctor and his plucky sidekick Jo Grant saved Earth from Daleks and the Master, as well as venturing to alien worlds steeped in mystery and intrigue.
“We’ve explored some of the most unusual corners of 1972 in this issue,” says editor Marcus Hearn. “What was it like to be at the Science Museum exhibition? Why does The Sea Devils sound like that? And what exactly was a ‘Mark 7’ Dalek? These are among the questions we’ve asked on these pages. Some of the answers are quite surprising.”
Highlights of the new bookazine include:
• Katy Manning and other visitors to the BBC’s Special Effects Exhibition recall the groundbreaking event
• An interview with Keith Miller, who was still at school when he became Secretary of the official Doctor Who Fan Club in 1972
• The inside story of the ‘Mark 7’ Dalek toys offered as prizes in a Radio Times competition
• Radiophonic Workshop’s Mark Ayres pays tribute to Malcolm Clarke, the maverick composer who created the avant-garde score for The Sea Devils
• How Jon Pertwee made a bid for pop stardom – with a bit of help from Deep Purple
• The unmade Brian Hayles stories that led to his Doctor Who comeback with The Curse of Peladon
• The life and career of Third Doctor comic-strip artist Gerry Haylock
• Director Christopher Barry’s notes on the casting and shooting of The Mutants
• How Doctor Who tried – and failed – to break America in 1972
• PLUS Guides to every story in Season Nine, the Doctor Who Annual, comic strips and much more
• Doctor Who: Chronicles Issue 12: 1972 is available now from newsagents not destroyed by Modella Daleks, or order it directly from Panini here
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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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