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** Exactly when the headline is used varies. For Creator/PeterDavison it was held back until his debut story aired; Creator/SylvesterMcCoy didn't get one; for Creator/PaulMcGann, Creator/ChristopherEccleston and Creator/DavidTennant as the Tenth Doctor it was as soon as the announcement was made; for Creator/ColinBaker[[note]]Although he's unique in that "regeneration" and "debut story" happened a week after each other rather than after a season break.[[/note]], Creator/MattSmith, Creator/PeterCapaldi and Creator/JodieWhittaker it was as soon as the regeneration occurred.

** DWM 403, the Christmas 2008 issue, had an obvious variation: "David Morrissey is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor The Next Doctor]]!"
** DWM 454 announced the redesign of the Eighth Doctor for the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDASDarkEyesE1TheGreatWar Dark Eyes]]" with the variation "Creator/PaulMcGann Is the '''[[DarkerAndEdgier Dark]]''' Doctor".

** Exactly when the headline is used varies. For Creator/PeterDavison it was held back until his debut story aired; Creator/SylvesterMcCoy didn't get one; for Creator/PaulMcGann, Creator/ChristopherEccleston and Creator/DavidTennant it was as soon as the announcement was made; for Creator/ColinBaker[[note]]Although he's unique in that "regeneration" and "debut story" happened a week after each other rather than after a season break.[[/note]], Creator/MattSmith, Creator/PeterCapaldi and Creator/JodieWhittaker it was as soon as the regeneration occurred.

** DWM 549, following Series 12, had the headline [[spoiler: "Creator/JoMartin is the Doctor".]]

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Eight wasn't [[ShesGotLegs mostly legs]] in the TV Movie...

** "The Warkeeper's Crown" has a malevolent, bloodthirsty group of Warrior Race aliens abduct the Brigadier and attempt to abduct Mike Yates. However, they abduct a different Mike Yates, a ludicrous, unpleasant little man who was an unsuccessful far-right-wing politician and ends up allying with the aliens. In reality, Richard Franklin, who played the UNIT Mike Yates on TV, has had an unsuccessful political career with a succession of increasingly small and extreme right-wing fringe parties. Though when the strip's writer, Alan Barnes, [[https://mobile.twitter.com/senrab_nala/status/1299753270047576069 was asked on Twitter]] which party Yates was meant to be, Barnes commented he was just an Independent and Wardleswick Immigration Concern was just him and his Mum.

** In "The Good Soldier", which is set around a diner and gas station in Nevada in 1954, the gas station is branded [[Characters/MCURoxxonCorporation Roxxon]], an evil oil company in the Marvel Universe.

* TheQuincyPunk: "Ravens" involves a gang of devil-worshipping Goths plotting a human sacrifice. Andrew Cartmel actually apologised for this in the 2016 TPB collection that includes the story.

* {{Crossover}}: Marvel had a way of bringing all of their licensed properties into the same, if not universe, then multiverse. One Marvel character, ComicBook/DeathsHead, is once thrown out of Marvel's ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' comic into the Doctor's TARDIS. And later thrown out of the TARDIS into [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Four Freedoms Plaza]].

* {{Transplant}}: ComicBook/DeathsHead appears in the time vortex after falling sideways through time from Marvel UK's ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' comic during a failed attempt to catch some Decepticon bounties. In turn, the Seventh Doctor shrinks Death's Head down from Cybertronian size to human size and gives him a trip in the TARDIS to his permanent home, the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

** The Twelfth Doctor storyline "The Clockwise War", which looks to be something of a GrandFinale to a whole era of the strip, includes Gol Clutha again, Destrii's EvilUncle Jodafra, Hugo Wilding and the Lakes from the [=MI6=] arc, Totika and Marshall Reeves from "The Parliament of Fear", Matildus from "Matildus", and [[spoiler: Fey, the only DWM companion who wasn't in "Stockbridge Showdown" ... and who is now a baddie]].

* In “The Age of Chaos”, the Doctor’s party come across a creature hat takes on the form of their worst fears. Frobisher sees a penguin-eating monster, Carf the knight sees an UndignifiedDeath while the Doctor sees Michael Aspel, presenting ''This is Your Life''.
** One Tenth Doctor strip had a malevolent, bloodthirsty group of Warrior Race aliens abduct the Brigadier and attempt to abduct Mike Yates. However, they abducted a different Mike Yates, a ludicrous, unpleasant little man who was an unsuccessful far-right-wing politician and ended up allying with the aliens. In reality, Richard Franklin, who played the UNIT Mike Yates on TV, has had an unsuccessful political career with a succession of increasingly small and extreme right-wing fringe parties. Though when [[https://mobile.twitter.com/senrab_nala/status/1299753270047576069 asked on Twitter]] which Party Yates was meant to be, Barnes commented he was just an Independent and Wardleswick Immigration Concern was just him and his Mum.

* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: In "Instruments of War", the 12th Doctor enters Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's tent, flashing his psychic paper and announcing himself as Dr. Johann Schmidt: the German version of his GoToAlias of 'Dr. John Smith'. As it happens, Rommel is one the people strong-minded enough to resist the physic paper's effect, but enough weird stuff is going on that a madman waving an empty wallet in his face barely registers.

* You Are Not Alone. Fan musings by Neil Harris. Follows on from other fan musings columns like Matt Jones's Fluid Links, and The Life And Times Of Jackie Jenkins (by Vanessa Bishop; "Jackie" was a fictional character).

* Wotcha!, a humour page by "the Watcher", which previously existed as It's The End But..., also by the Watcher, and as mentioned above, The Space Time Telegraph by "Sorvad" (represented as a Dalek head on a human body). Following an unfortunate incident in 2017, "the Watcher" was sacked and this page was replaced by The Blogs of Doom, featuring in-universe blog posts from various characters in the show.

* The Matrix Databank. Originally written by Andrew Pixley, it returned with a flippant approach, hosted by [[SdrawkcabName Sorvad]] (also credited with the occasional spoof news column "Space-Time Telegraph"). It used "guest presenters" (usually companions) for a while with various explanations as to Sorvad's location. This particular feature was quietly discontinued in 2008.

** One Tenth Doctor strip had a malevolent, bloodthirsty group of Warrior Race aliens abduct the Brigadier and attempt to abduct Mike Yates. However, they abducted a different Mike Yates, a ludicrous, unpleasant little man who was an unsuccessful far-right-wing politician and ended up allying with the aliens. In reality, Richard Franklin, who played the UNIT Mike Yates on TV, has had an unsuccessful political career with a succession of increasingly small and extreme right-wing fringe parties. Though when [[asked on Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/senrab_nala/status/1299753270047576069]] which Party Yates was meant to be, Barnes commented he was just an Independent and Wardleswick Immigration Concern was just him and his Mum.

** One Tenth Doctor strip had a malevolent, bloodthirsty group of Warrior Race aliens abduct the Brigadier and attempt to abduct Mike Yates. However, they abducted a different Mike Yates, a ludicrous, unpleasant little man who was an unsuccessful far-right-wing politician and ended up allying with the aliens. In reality, Richard Franklin, who played the UNIT Mike Yates on TV, has had an unsuccessful political career with a succession of increasingly small and extreme right-wing fringe parties.

** While it's rather subtle, the villainous politician Alexander Truscott is likely a subtle take on Boris Johnson (whose first name is actually Alexander). Similarly the Clockwise Club is likely based on the Bullingdon Club Boris Johnson was part of.

** One of the villains in "The Clockwise War" is a former member of an upper class dinner club at college, the members of which were noted to behave appallingly due to their entitlement, and who are introduced in a flashback as looking exactly like the Bullingdon Club. This particular member went on to be a politician, secretly retaining this attitude but disguising it as a VillainWithGoodPublicity. At this point there are a number of former Bullingdon members who might be getting targeted, but when Bill explains the popular perception of this sadist is someone who was really funny on a {{Panel Game}}, it pretty much points straight to UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson. (Although the actual appearance of the character is more like ''ComicBook/XMen'' villain Sebastian Shaw.)

* DWM 423 has a MinimalisticCoverArt featuring only the logo and a time crack (giving the impression that the crack "ate" everything else on the cover) in anticipation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang The Big Bang]]".

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The Doctor's crossed paths with Myth/KingArthur and Myth/{{Merlin}} (Marvel's version, not his own future self), artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Spring-Heeled Jack, George Custer and Sitting Bull, Creator/WilliamShakespeare and Robert Greene, Ernest Shackleton, Creator/CSLewis and Creator/JRRTolkien, Creator/{{Socrates}} and Creator/{{Plato}}, the Golem of Prague, pilot Amy Johnson, Erwin Rommel, Creator/HarryHoudini, Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. He also helped inspire the game of conkers.

The longest running official [[TelevisionTieInMagazines Television Tie-In Magazine]] in the world, as declared by Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords,[[note]]An award the magazine received twice - initially in 2010, and again in 2016 as part of the celebrations for issue #500.[[/note]] ''Doctor Who Magazine'' started off as ''Doctor Who Weekly'' back in ''1979''.

* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Oblivion's nobles.

* DWM 423's cover consists of only the logo and a time crack (giving the impression that the crack "ate" everything else on the cover) in anticipation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang The Big Bang]]".

* {{Transplant}}: ComicBook/DeathsHead appears in the time vortex after falling sideways through time from Marvel UK's ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' comic during a failed attempt to catch some Decepticon bounties. In turn, the Seventh Doctor gives Death's Head a trip in the TARDIS to his permanent home, the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

* DWM 481 continues the ''Radio Times'' Christmas pastiche theme, this time recreating RT's Christmas 1991 cover, but replacing the generic SantaClaus painting with Nick Frost's Santa from "[[Recap/DoctorWho2014CSLastChristmas Last Christmas]]".

* DWM 550 is mocked up to look like an 1890s edition of ''The Strand'' with a woodcut effect picture of the Doctor and Leela, referencing the ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' pastiche "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang Talons of Weng-Chiang]]" (since the theme of the issue was Season 14). As with many of the more divergent cover designs, the newsstand edition was sold in a polybag printed with a more conventional DWM cover.

The longest running official [[TelevisionTieInMagazines Television Tie In Magazine]] in the world, as declared by Guinness World Records,[[note]]An award the magazine received twice - initially in 2010, and again in 2016 as part of the celebrations for issue #500.[[/note]] ''Doctor Who Magazine'' started off as ''Doctor Who Weekly'' back in ''1979''.

DWM is a lot more independent than most such mags, printing reviews that can be highly critical and happily criticising many of the show's poor past episodes. It has become very close to the production team and is very much a source for exclusives, especially episode titles.

!!The comic strip contains examples of:

** "The Stockbridge Showdown" has Josiah Dogbolter, the story's BigBad, standing against publicly owned media, believing that a tiny ultra-wealthy elite should control mass media (referencing the anti-BBC campaign by the tycoons of British media, most notably Rupert Murdoch). It also has a very unflattering caricature of British Prime Minister David Cameron as an obsequious condom-headed alien at Dogbolter's birthday party, thanking Dogbolter for helping him win the last election. (The condom head was a deliberate Shout Out to Steve Bell's newspaper comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{If}}'', which does the same thing.)

* {{Transplant}}: ComicBook/DeathsHead appears after falling sideways through time from Marvel UK's ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' comic.

* AmazonBrigade: The Amazastians in "Green-Eyed Monster". Amazastians are the humanoid natives of Amazastia. All members of this race are stunningly attractive women with physical ages of eighteen to twenty, a fact which mystifies their own scientists. After victory in battles, they would always massage their bodies in scented oils. The Tenth Doctor enlists Amazastian mercenaries led by Phalia to rescue Rose Tyler from the acolytes of Iagnon on Iagnos. It is possible, however, that they are merely the product of a FeverDream on Rose's part.

* ChainmailBikini: The Amazastanians in "The Green-Eyed Monster".

** The strip hasn't really been concerned about whether or not it's in continuity with other branches of the Expanded Universe since then; on the one hand, "Doorway to Hell" gives a depiction of [[spoiler:the Delgado Master's death and regeneration]] that is completely different from that depicted in [[spoiler:the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''Legacy of the Daleks'',]], while on the other, "Monstrous Beauty" is the strip's contribution to the ''Time Lord Victorious'' multi-media event.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Amy Pond in "The Golden Ones".

* BeastMan: Most notably, Josiah Dogbolter, who looks like a humanoid frog. Then there are Oblivion's nobles, who range the gamut from fish to pigs to cats, with Destrii and her mother both being fishwomen.