We are recordbreakers. Officially. Yes, as you surely can’t have failed to notice from the front of our big shiny box, Doctor Who Magazine is Five Hundred Issues old. For a ‘TV tie-in’, that’s world-beating.
The story of DWM is told in a special supplement which you’ll also find inside this package (although ‘supplement’ is a funny word to use for something that’s another 116-page magazine), so I won’t go on about our history too much here. But here are some facts and figures that aren’t printed elsewhere – as you all know how much I like my facts and figures.
◼Among the 150,000+ purchasers of Issue 1 of Doctor Who Weekly were eightyear-old David Tennant, 16-year-old Russell T Davies and 17-year-old Steven Moffat. All of them have been reading the magazine ever since. Hello!