Old DWM Issues

Behind the Scenes DWM (Doctor Who Magazine)
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Back when the Forum was still young, I started making threads on individual issues of DWM since I found issues 1-200 on archive.org. I made it through Issue #5 (with a side step into #175 when we started the Book Club with Timewyrm: Genesys). I get that they want to get people to subscribe for newer issues, but I’d love it if there were an easy way to read the older issues. I’d love a collected edition where you have several issues in a single book (like Panini does with the comic collections). I’d love it if they were to collect the first 350 issues into a multi-volume set. (I picked #350 because that takes us through the end of 2004. It’s a lot of content that no one can read unless they were collecting back then, and it’s old enough [20 years] that it’s not encroaching on any potential subscriptions.) What are your thoughts on the availablity (or lack thereof) of back issues of DWM?

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I haven’t read a great deal of DWM, but I think it is an interesting idea. I bought four back issues of DWM for $1 each at Who North America (I enjoyed them a lot, and wish I had bought more back issues when I was there). Volumes might be interesting, but I could see something like the Times Machine digital archive that the New York Times has a subscriber benefit being fun also. [1] I suppose it is possible that there might be copyright complications, though.

  1. The Times Machine is a section of the New York Times website where subscribers can look at digitized scans of previous issues of the newspaper. ↩︎

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Been reading through more of the first 200 issues lately. I’ve been skipping around a little[1] for a bit of variety. Early on, I’m finding them to be just glorified comic books with articles fairly bare bones. However, I can easily see the articles being enjoyed by young readers at the time with glimpses of their favorite monsters and synopses of past stories before the novelizations were released. And in a time before the internet where home video was in its infancy, these were probably horded and often re-read. Definitely an interesting look at Who history.

  1. though I do plan on reading all of them ↩︎

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