Two new issues of Doctor Who Magazine are on sale now

Doctor Who Magazine 507 features new companion Nardole who returns in this year’s Christmas Special and for the 2017 series.

Matt Lucas chats to DWM in a rare and exclusive interview

You can read the full interview inside the new magazine...

ALSO INSIDE THIS ISSUE…

• THE RETURN OF DOCTOR MYSTERIO
DWM previews the amazing new Christmas Special!
• MEET THE GHOST
A chat with the man behind the mask – Justin Chatwin, who plays The Ghost in the Christmas episode!
• ASK STEVEN
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat answers readers' questions.
• THE POWER OF THE DOCTOR
DWM takes an in-depth look at the Doctor’s superhero credentials.
• REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2016
Despite the lack of series on TV, 2016 has still been a year to remember in the world of Doctor Who...
• THE FEAST OF STEVEN
Why the Doctor took a week off from fighting Daleks in 1965 to engage in some slapstick comedy…
• PINBALL WIZARDS!
24 years after it launched, the Doctor Who pinball table has returned in digital form.
• BE FORGOT
A brand-new comic strip adventure, written by Mark Wright and illustrated by Mike Collins.
• TIME TEAM
There’s a double helping this issue as our team watches The Sarah Jane Adventures episode The Death of the Doctor, and the 2010 Special A Christmas Carol.
• THE RUNAWAY BRIDE
Writer Russell T Davies reveals fascinating new facts about the 2006 Christmas Special in this issue’s Fact of Fiction.
• THE POWER OF THE DALEKS
DWM reviews the recent DVD release of the animated edition of the 1966 classic, The Power of the Daleks.
• STOCKING FILLERS
A review of all the Who goodies which make perfect Christmas gifts.
• COMING SOON
Previews of all the latest Doctor Who CD and book releases.
• WOTCHA
The Watcher ponders the Reset Button...

PLUS! All the latest official news, Christmas competitions, and The Watcher’s Christmas Quiz.

Doctor Who Magazine 507 is on sale now, price £5.99, with a GIGANTIC FREE POSTER!

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The Doctor Who Magazine Yearbook 2017 is a 100-page special edition, packed with all-new content.

There are exclusive interviews with the cast of the recent spin-off Class and the crew of the 2017 series of Doctor Who. The director and costume designer of Friend from the Future describe the making of the mini-episode, and there is an extensive section of tributes to Doctor Who luminaries who passed away during 2016.

Elsewhere there are round-ups up the year’s Doctor Who-related books, records and Big Finish releases, along with a report from November’s launch event for the new Power of the Daleks animation.

Editor Marcus Hearn says: Doctor Who Magazine Special: The 2017 Yearbook is on sale now, price £5.99.

This month's issue of Doctor Who Magazine celebrates fifty years of the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton.

In November 1966, Doctor Who undertook its trickiest challenge to date. Could it survive with a brand new lead actor? Half a century later, DWM celebrates the lasting legacy of Patrick Troughton!

ALSO INSIDE THIS ISSUE…

• WE WILL GET OUR POWER!
DWM meets the team that brought the Second Doctor's début adventure The Power of the Daleks back to life as a brand-new animation!
• ASK STEVEN
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat answers readers' questions.
• THE MAN WHO BUILT THE TARDIS
DWM reveals the story of the man who designed the original TARDIS set back in 1963 – Peter Brachacki.
• THE ART OF THE DIRECTOR
We continue the interrogation of Doctor Who directors Daniel O’Hara, Ed Bazalgette, Daniel Nettheim, and Douglas Mackinnon.
• BLOODSPORT
The second and concluding part of the latest comic strip adventure featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Jess, written by Mark Wright and illustrated by Staz Johnson.
• THE PANDORICA OPENS
The Time Team watch the nail-biting finale of the Eleventh Doctor’s first series with this month’s two-parter, The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang.
• THE END OF THE WORLD
Writer Russell T Davies reveals fascinating new facts about his 2005 classic in this issue’s Fact of Fiction feature.
• COMING SOON
Previews of all the latest Doctor Who CD and book releases.
• WOTCHA
The Watcher ponders on what Nyssa of Traken really got up to...

PLUS! All the latest official news, reviews, competitions, and The DWM Crossword!

Doctor Who Magazine 506 is on sale from Thursday 17 November 2016, price £5.99.

Panini have announced the latest in their ongoing Doctor Who Essentials series of special magazines:


The Essential Doctor Who: Invasions of Earth is on sale now at WH Smith and all good newsagents.

The comic book artist Steve Dillon has died at the age of 54.

Steve Dillon was a regular contributor to Doctor Who Magazine in the 1980's where he created the character of Abslom Daak.

Dillon's art was first seen in the fifth edition of the magazine, then called Doctor Who Weekly, in which he co-created the character of Kroton with writer Steve Moore.

He was the main backup strip artist until issue #29, during which time he had helped to create Daak as well as Plutar, a bumbling Time Lord student, and Gnork a hyper-intelligent Ogron.

He returned to the magazine as the artist on the final Fifth Doctor comic story, The Moderator, which portrayed the death of comic-strip companion, Gus.

Dillon was best known for his work with writer Garth Ennis, including the critically acclaimed Preacher as well as Hellblazer and The Punisher.

Steve Dillon was born in Luton in 1962. He died in New York earlier this week.

This month's Doctor Who Magazine celebrates the 10th Anniversary of Doctor Who's first ongoing spin-off series, when John Barrowman talks Torchwood...

Following Barrowman's comment at this year's San Diego Comic-Con that he was “working very hard” to return Torchwood to our TV screens", DWM asks he what that was all about... ALSO INSIDE THIS ISSUE…

• ASK STEVEN
Showrunner Steven Moffat answers readers' questions, and reveals that the Doctor's favourite alcoholic drink is lemonade.
• THE POWER OF THE DALEKS
A first look at the brand-new animation of the lost Second Doctor classic adventure The Power of the Daleks.
• CLASS PREVIEW
DWM asks writer Patrick Ness to reveal what he's got in store for us in new Doctor Who spin-off, Class.
• THE ART OF THE DIRECTOR
DWM celebrates a century of Doctor Who directors by tracking down four of the class of 2015 and interrogating them – in Part One of this in-depth feature.
• BLOODSPORT
Part One of a brand new comic strip adventure, written by Mark Wright and illustrated by Staz Johnson.
• TIME TEAM
The Time Team stock up on pizza, booze and telly for this month's episode, The Lodger.
• THE SAVAGES
The TARDIS lands on a planet which offers ‘a golden age of peace and prosperity’... But this apparent utopia comes at a terrible price, as this issue's Fact of Fiction features 1966's The Savages.
• COMING SOON
Previews of all the latest Doctor Who CD and book releases.

PLUS! All the latest official news, reviews, competitions, and The DWM Crossword.

Doctor Who Magazine 505 is on sale now, price £5.99.

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine is on general release today, and this month celebrates the first appearance of the Cybermen some 50 years ago.


Costume designer Alexandra Tynan gave the original Cybermen their distinctive look for their first appearance in The Tenth Planet in 1966:
Despite this, 50 years on in 2016, the Cybermen are still going strong...

Also inside this issue:

• CYBER-PLANS - Discover the inside story of the Cybermen’s many campaigns...
• EVOLUTION OF THE CYBERMEN - We examine the changes in Cyber-evolution, including some variants that were barely glimpsed on screen.
• JAMI REID-QUARRELL - We chat to Colony Sarff actor Jami Reid-Quarrell about playing a physically demanding role.
• MOVING IN - The Doctor goes domestic in our brand-new comic strip adventure, Moving In, written by Mark Wright and illustrated by John Ross.
• STEVEN MOFFAT - Readers ask the Doctor Who showrunner their burning questions.
• TIME TEAM - There’s a mystery to solve in nineteenth-century France as the Doctor and Amy have a brush with history when they meet Vincent van Gogh in this month’s episode, Vincent and the Doctor.
• SILVER NEMESIS - The Cybermen return for Doctor Who’s silver anniversary in this issue’s Fact of Fiction.
• COMING SOON - Previews of all the latest Doctor Who CD and book releases.
  

PLUS! All the latest official news, reviews, competitions, The DWM Crossword… and FOUR variant Cybermen covers to collect!

Doctor Who Magazine increased its circulation in the first half of 2016, compared with the same period in 2015, according to figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

In the period January to June 2016 the magazine had an official certified circulation of 25,832 copies, up from 25,663 in the first six months of the previous year. As expected, the figure is slightly down on the July to December period last year, as the circulation is usually higher while the show is in transmission.

Doctor Who Adventures however, now has a certified circulation of 11,268, down from 20,506 in the equivalent six months last year, a drop of over 40%. At its peak in 2010, DWA had over 50,000 readers.

Doctor Who Magazine have announced that there will be a special cover variant for subscriber on the next issue of the magazine, due out on the 25th August.

Editor Tom Spilsbury reports:

New subscriptions can be taken up online via Panini's website. The cover will be revealed on the 22nd August.

The latest Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition takes a look at how the world's longest-running science-fiction series has travelled to locations far and wide.

In its early days Doctor Who was recorded on cumbersome cameras tethered to claustrophobic and often inadequate studios. The show rarely escaped these confines in the 1960s, but as technology improved, producers and directors became more adventurous.

Location shooting has helped to create some of the most memorable episodes in the series’ long history. This unique publication tells the story of those episodes and the people who made them happen.

This 100-page Special includes interviews with:

• Designer Spencer Chapman (The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
• Production manager Margot Hayhoe (Fury From the Deep, Castrovalva etc)
• Location manager Nicky James (Night Terrors, The Bells of Saint John etc)
• Location manager Iwan Roberts (A Good Man Goes to War, The Day of the Doctor etc)
• Producer Marcus Wilson (A Town Called Mercy, The Angels Take Manhattan etc)

Elsewhere in this issue Andrew Pixley revisits the Portmeirion location shoot for The Masque of Mandragora, Matthew Kilburn celebrates Doctor Who’s greatest quarries and Alan Barnes meets some of the fans who are dedicated to location hunting. There’s a map showing alien invasions of the British Isles, guides to the European location shoots for City of Death and Arc of Infinity, a trip behind the scenes of The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People and much more.

Editor Marcus Hearn says: Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: On Location is on sale now, price £5.99 (UK) and $11.99 (US).

The latest edition of Doctor Who Magazine is on general release on Thursday, and this issue looks ahead to what we can expect in the next series of Doctor Who, currently under production.


Speaking on his feelings about working on his last series for the show, Steven Moffat says:

Speaking about the casting of Pearl Mackie, casting director Andy Pryor says:


Also inside this issue:

• CONCEPT ART: DWM comic artist Mike Collins reveals the secrets of his work storyboarding TV Doctor Who!
  
  
• MARVEL FILES: A fascinating insight into the early correspondence between Doctor Who Magazine and BBC Enterprises.
  
  
• THE PESTILENT HEART: Part 2 of a brand-new comic strip adventure, The Pestilent Heart, written by Mark Wright and illustrated by Mike Collins.
  
  
• RELATIVELY SPEAKING: Jacqueline Rayner bows out with her final Relative Dimensions column.
  
  
• TIME TEAM: The Time Team attempt to distinguish dream and reality as they watch the 2010 episode, Amy's Choice.
  
  
• FRONTIER IN SPACE: War breaks out in space, in this issue’s Fact of Fiction, which covers the 1973 Third Doctor adventure Frontier in Space.
  
  
• COMING SOON: DWM previews all the latest Doctor Who CD and book releases.

PLUS! All the latest official news, reviews, competitions, The DWM Crossword... and a MASSIVE poster and FOUR more art cards!