{"id":2084,"date":"2009-10-16T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2009-10-13T13:36:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T17:36:29","slug":"walt-simonson-on-doctor-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/16\/walt-simonson-on-doctor-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Walt Simonson on Doctor Who"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Believe it or not, the legendary Walt Simonson drew some <em>Doctor Who<\/em> illustrations back in 1980.\u00a0 These were published in <em>Marvel Premiere<\/em> issues #57 and #60.\u00a0 The feature stories in these issues were colorized reprints of the British <em>Doctor Who Weekly<\/em> comic strips (eventually retitled <em>Doctor Who Magazine<\/em>).\u00a0 Simonson&#8217;s drawings were used for covers and interior pin-ups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below is the fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) being chased by a Zygon.\u00a0 Probably my favorite Walt Simonson <em>Doctor Who<\/em> drawing.\u00a0 Also a very iconic image of the Zygons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Doctor Who (Tom Baker) and Zygon by Walt Simonson\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/drwho_zygon_simonson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"765\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below is the cover to <em>Marvel Premiere<\/em> #57 featuring the fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and the TARDIS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Doctor Who (Tom Baker) on Marvel Premiere by Walt Simonson\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/drwho_cover_simonson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"783\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below is a great shot of the fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and his companion Romana II (Lalla Ward).\u00a0 I love the flowing scarves and complementary costumes!\u00a0 Romana II wore this outfit in her first appearance, <em>Destiny of the Daleks<\/em>.\u00a0 I think she should have worn it more often. They looked great together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Doctor Who (Tom Baker) and Romana by Walt Simonson\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/drwho_romana_simonson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"614\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below is a nice U.N.I.T. shot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"UNIT from Doctor Who by Walt Simonson\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/drwho_unit_simonson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, below is a shot of Leela that makes her look infinitely cooler than she did in the TV series itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Leela from Doctor Who by Walt Simonson\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/drwho_leela_simonson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"853\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During my research for this post, I came across a similar post by my buddy <a title=\"Siskoid's Blog of Geekery\" href=\"http:\/\/siskoid.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/walt-simonson-on-doctor-who.html\">Siskoid over at his Blog of Geekery<\/a>.\u00a0 In that post it states that Walt Simonson had never watched <em>Doctor Who<\/em> before.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 You&#8217;d never know that from the drawings.\u00a0 Great job, Walt!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2084\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" 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