by DENE OCTOBER THE BLACK ARCHIVE #18 • MARCO POLO

THE BLACK ARCHIVE #18 • MARCO POLO DENE OCTOBER - Doctor Who Magazine Illustration by Blair Bidmead Blair by Illustration Schell Cody by design Graphic Books Obverse © 2018 "A grandly ambitious thing to attempt with something as exhaustively detailed as [Who]. But they actually manage it. Treat your bookshelf." was broadcast during an era of cultural change, change, cultural of era an during broadcast was ‘How long have you been travelling? It is twelve hundred and eighty eighty and hundred twelve is It travelling? been you have long ‘How to travel who those to known Pamir, of Plain the is this and nine World.’ the of Roof The as Cathay Polo Marco reshaping television’s role as historian, and locating the reader, reader, the locating and historian, as role television’s reshaping given crucial is This interpretation. of centre the at author, the not in traveller fellow a as viewer the recruits serial fourth the how caravan. Marco’s The epic journey is staged through camera-treatments and mobility, adaptive and remedial interventions, public and bookhistory, cultural assumptions and memories. Rather than the solitary authorial figure of Marco, this book celebrates the collaborators, copyists, studio personnel and fans, whose community storytelling is in the philosophical spirit of Doctor Who. the to keeping while threads several investigates author The televisual exhaustive the how exploiting travelogue, the of rhythm a itself is book His travel. time of trope the inverts experience memory and media through travel we how on reflection wayfaring stories. missing of earliest and famous most this reconstructing in