The DWB Compendium: The Best of the First 100 Issues

by Gary Leigh (Editor)

Dreamwatch Bulletin, winner of numerous Doctor Who Appreciation Society and Marvel awards for Best Fanzine, recently notched up a decade in print. As a celebration, this special volume unites the very best of the feature meaterial that appeared in the first 100 issues.

Fully revised and updated, this unique book will provide a fascinating source of reference for all telefantasy fans, beatifully illustrated with stunning artwork and many previously unpublished photographs.

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Chris Browning]

The second blast from the past from the my early Doctor Who days today. DWB was a frustrating fanzine in many ways: good on research and factual context, but clearly with ideas it was more than a mere fanzine which eventually scuppered it when it regenerated into Dream Watch Bulletin to attempt to hoover up some TV Zone readers, which was inevitably doomed to failure. The best stuff here is the research stuff, although obviously a lot of the archives material has thankfully been superseded by later discoveries. The telesnaps stuff is always entertaining as are the lost stories précis material, although the film plot seems more than a little baffling without any context for it. And it’s padded with the sort of stuff Peter Haining would also pad his books out with like viewer numbers, some Blake’s Seven merchandise stuff and a quick go through which cult TV books are worth getting. It could have been considerably better considering it was coming off a hundred issues of the original publication, but to be honest does feel like a pretty representative compilation of the frustrations of reading DWB back in the day

[Daniel Kukwa]

Like many in "Doctor Who" fandom, I found the fanzine-turned-magazine DWB (running from the mid 1980s through the mid 1990s) to be controversial, outrageous, hilarious, fascinating, and never ever dull. This collection of articles and essays are not only the ultimate taster of this slice of 1990s fandom, it's also a seminal work that influenced my increasing love & appreciation of literary & pop culture criticism and analysis, as well as behind-the-scenes production information. Many of the creative forces behind "Doctor Who" today made their early mark in these articles & reviews, adding some extra fascinating layers of history to this collection.