The Doctor

Few characters carry a title as iconic as The Doctor, and this Marvel UK incarnation — debuting in The Official Doctor Who Magazine #88 in 1984 — has been captivating readers across an impressive nearly four decades of publication. Born in the Bronze Age from the creative partnership of Steve Parkhouse and John Ridgway, this is a character whose presence in the pages of Doctor Who Magazine and its companion graphic novels has proven remarkably enduring, with 54 catalog appearances and two collector-significant key issues to their name. Along the way, The Doctor has shared adventures with a wonderfully eclectic cast — Frobisher, Rose Tyler, Clara Oswald, and even The Thing among them — a roster that speaks to the sprawling, cross-title ambition of this character's world. For any fan of British comics history or the broader Doctor Who universe in sequential art form, this is a run absolutely worth tracking down.