In October 1979, David Tennant bought Doctor Who Magazine’s very first issue (“the one with the free transfers,” he notes). It was a seminal moment. “I remember thinking, well, this is what I’ve been waiting for my entire life,” he says. He was eight years old. “It blew my mind. There had been Doctor Who comics before, I remember them from TV Comic back in the day, but they’d always been a bit scrappy and slightly shoddy – no offence to those who I’m sure worked very hard on them. But suddenly with Doctor Who Weekly… well, it was a Marvel comic strip, it was that quality, like a different level. It looked great.
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issue 1, with the free transfers.