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DWW 27: Star Tigers, ep1 , pp1

Artists: Steve Dillon (All) , Steve Moore (Writer)

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Title:	DWW 27: Star Tigers, ep1 , pp1
Artist:	Steve Dillon (All)
Artist:	Steve Moore (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	62
Likes on CAF:	4 5
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	10/19/2025
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Steve Dillon's first work - aged sixteen - was with Dez Skinn at Marvel UK. The experience gained working on Hulk and Nick Fury, got him the gig working with Paul Neary on Marvel UK's nascent Doctor Who Weekly.

DWW was utlising some of the cream of the UK comics scene: Dave Gibbons, John Wagner, Pat Mills, Mick McMahon: but with 'B-team' (their words!) writers Alan Moore and Steve Moore, Dez Skinn and art editor Paul Neary were keen to develop other stories with what I suppose we now have to call 'The Whoniverse'. Along for the ride in 'Tales from The TARDIS' were young artists David Lloyd and Steve Dillon.

These stories were thrilling to my young mind, because, already a huge fan of the TV Show, the Target novelisations - particularly of Malcolm Hulke - had shown that there was so much to these stories than was just seen on the show. For the two Moore's Doctor Who was a playpen of concepts, ideas and characters; and while Alan tended towards the mind expanding and universal, Steve tended towards the action-packed and character-driven. Absolam Daak, the doomed love-lorn psychopath and self-styled Dalek Killer, had already appeared earlier in 1980, and here he was to return with his own motley crew of Whoniverse renegades, The Star Tigers, including the awesome humanoid reptilians, the Draconians, from the TV Season 8 story, Mac Hulke's 'The Frontier in Space'.

...and could there have been a more careful, accurate and dynamic artist that 18-year-old Steve Dillon? The definitive account of the genesis of the Daak stories and Star Tigers is told in a wide-ranging interview with both Steves Dillon and Moore in issue Two of Vworp Vworp magazine from 2011; including a detailed breakdown on the production of this very page! Seek it out!

Pen, ink, pencil and whiteout on thick cartridge paper
40 x 67 cms

Fourth Doctor stat by Paul Neary.

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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 10/20/2025

What a phenom! We didn't get to see this side of Dillon art on this side of the pind. Neary punches up the shadows and textures to all the things Dillon does to emphasize the story and mood. Whether if its elongating figures or moving the camera, he already had a mastery of the craft.

Eric B
Member Since 2014

1 - Posted on 10/21/2025

I loved these stories for the same reason you mention, the expansion on the universe we got to see on tv. The page's depth of background and well-defined character conflict made this part of the Whoniverse both literally and figuratively three dimensional.

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