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Coming on Blu-Ray June 19: Doctor Who - Tom Baker Complete First Season

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Tom Baker's acclaimed first season as the Fourth Doctor, originally aired in 1975/76. With his best friend Sarah Jane Smith and new companion Harry, the Doctor pits his wits against a giant robot, the insect Wirrn, Cybermen, Sontarans and Daleks.

Twenty episodes, specially restored for Blu-Ray and packed with new and old special features. Build your own archive of classic Doctor Who seasons with this six-disc special 'limited edition packaging' boxset.

Extras

Existing bonus material from the original DVD's
Brand New Bonus Features
Brand new one hour candid interview - 'Tom Baker in conversation'
Behind The Sofa - classic clips from season 12 viewed by Tom Baker, Philip Hinchcliffe, Louise Jameson, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton and Sadie Miller
New making-of documentaries for 'The Sontaran Experiment' and 'Revenge of the Cybermen'
Optional brand new updated special effects for Revenge of the Cybermen
Genesis of the Daleks - omnibus movie version
The Tom Baker Years VHS release on disc for the first time
Production archive material and scripts from the BBC Archives
Some other archive treats to be announced

Time Capsule: Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers, live in Copenhagen, April 1968

Comic art: John Romita Sr. cover, "Amazing Spider-Man" #61, 1968

New book details DC Comics 1970s 'implosion"

Coming soon from TwoMorrows Publishing:

Comic Book Implosion

Things looked bleak for comic books throughout the 1970s because of plummeting sell-through rates. With each passing year, the newsstand became less and less interested in selling comic books. The industry seemed locked in a death spiral, but the Powers That Be at DC Comics had an idea to reverse their fortunes.

In 1978, they implemented a bold initiative: Provide readers with more story pages by increasing the price-point of a regular comic book to make it comparable to other magazines sold on newsstands.

Billed as “The DC Explosion,” this expansion saw the introduction of numerous creative new titles.

But mere weeks after its launch, DC’s parent company pulled the plug, demanding a drastic decrease in the number of comic books they published, and leaving stacks of completed comic book stories unpublished. The series of massive cutbacks and cancellations quickly became known as “The DC Implosion.”

TwoMorrows Publishing marks the 40th Anniversary of one of the most notorious events in comics with an exhaustive oral history from the creators and executives involved (Jenette Kahn, Paul Levitz, Len Wein, Mike Gold, and Al Milgrom, among many others), as well as detailed analysis and commentary by other top professionals, who were “just fans” in 1978 (Mark Waid, Michael T. Gilbert, Tom Brevoort, and more)—examining how it changed the landscape of comics forever! By Keith Dallas and John Wells.