DWA 297

Doctor Who Adventures # was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 29 November 2012.

Free gift

 * A build and paint your own TARDIS

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * FACT FILE: Robots
 * FUN FEATURE: Gruesome gifts for monsters

Comic content

 * The Runaway Bogey

Fast Facts

 * POCKET SCIENCE: Dalek Progenitor

Posters

 * A3 Oswin meets the Eleventh Doctor
 * A4 ULTIMATE DALEK Dalek Drone

Behind the scenes

 * Filming A Town Called Mercy

Interview

 * None this issue

Also featuring

 * Welcome and news (Hello Time Travellers!)
 * Geronimo: News, Who Said This? Freaky Formula, Mixed-up Episode Titles, Hot or Not
 * Activity: Eleventh Doctor Mask
 * Big Puzzle: TARDIS crossword (2 pages)
 * Jokes, Puzzle page and Quiz
 * Mega Moment
 * What's on the Doctor's phone messages.
 * Readers contributions: Who and You Upload - featuring reader's letters, photos, and art.
 * Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
 * Competition Goodies (Character Building Dalek Spaceship sets, Star Wars Easykits, Doctor Who Calendar and Doctor Who 2013 Diary )

Credits
Most wanted returning monster next year
 * Editor: Natalie Barnes Dorium, Well, Dorium's head
 * Deputy Editor: Annabel Gibson Zygons
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett Auntie and Uncle
 * Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies The Hath
 * Writer: Craig Donaghy Vashta Nerada. They give me the creeps.
 * Designer: Phil White Tetraps

Hidden Away / Facts

 * WHO SAID: "Titles are not meaningful in this context. Doctor who?" Darla in Asylum of the Daleks.
 * A Town Called Mercy was filmed at Fort Bravo in Spain.
 * Writer Toby Whithouse wanted the Gunslinger to look like Frankenstein's monster. Actor Andrew Brooke spent two and a half hours each morning to be transformed into the Gunslinger.

Further information

 * Interestingly (and wrongly), the Daleks are included in this issue's feature on Robots, but then again so is the cyborg Gunslinger!
 * The subscription offer for this issue was four issues for £1 then a saving of 10% (thirteen issues for £30.42) (UK).
 * This issue had a cover price of £2.99 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted.
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as a mega Doctor Set (mini-stamp, bouncy ball, 4 puffy stickers, Doctor badge, TARDIS keyring and sonic magnet).