IDW Publishing
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IDW Publishing is an American publisher of comic books currently publishing several Doctor Who comics out of the USA. Many of IDW's titles are licensed properties based upon TV and film franchises. Besides Doctor Who, IDW is also the current publisher of comics based upon Star Trek, making this the first time since the late-70s/early-80s that one company has owned the rights to both franchises at the same time (the previous being Marvel Comics).
The company initially offered two Doctor Who titles beginning in winter 2007/08: Doctor Who Classics, which reprinted Fourth Doctor stories from Doctor Who Magazine, and Doctor Who, offering all-new adventures for the Tenth Doctor, starting with a six-issue miniseries. In summer 2008, IDW released a second miniseries, The Forgotten, which featured appearances by all 10 Doctors. In October 2008, IDW suspended Doctor Who Classics and launched a related title, Grant Morrison's Doctor Who, a two-issue miniseries which reprinted DWM storylines written by Grant Morrison. In December, the regular reprints continued as Doctor Who Classics: Series 2, continuing the DWM reprints with the Fourth Doctor; in April 2009 the series began reprinting Fifth Doctor strips.
In 2009, IDW started publishing a series of one-shots, which began with The Whispering Gallery in February, followed by The Time Machination in May, and Autopia in June. It will launch Doctor Who Ongoing in July, a new monthly series featuring the Tenth Doctor that is expected to run for at least 18 issues, and is anticipated to move onto the Eleventh Doctor around issue #18.
Concurrent with Ongoing, IDW has announced that it will continue publishing monthly one-shots until at least the fall of 2009. These stories do not appear to follow the continuity of Ongoing, as according to an advertisement in the July 2009 one-shot, A Room with a Deja View, future one-shots will feature Donna Noble and Martha Jones during their times with the Doctor.
Aside from the comic magazines, IDW also publishes graphic novel-style omnibus collections of its comics. To date (June 2009) it has reprinted three volumes of Doctor Who Classics (with a fourth announced), Agent Provocateur (an omnibus collecting the first six-issue miniseries), and The Forgotten, with Through Time and Space, an omnibus collecting the first six one-shots, announced for late 2009.
