DWA 285

Doctor Who Adventures # was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 6 September 2012.

Free gift

 * Doctor Dress-up Set

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * PREVIEW: New Series 2: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
 * PULL-OUT STORY GUIDE: Asylum of the Daleks

Comic content

 * The Planet That Slept
 * AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters)

Fast Facts

 * None this issue

Posters

 * A3 Asylum of the Daleks
 * A4 Weeping Angels
 * A4 ULTIMATE DALEK Emperor's Dalek Guard

Behind the scenes

 * The Runaway Bride concept art for the Racnoss web.

Interview

 * None this issue

Also featuring

 * Welcome and news (Hello Time Travellers!)
 * Geronimo: News, Mixed-up Episode Titles! Freaky Formula, Joke, Hot or Not
 * Big Puzzle: Dalek Quiz (2 pages)
 * Jokes, Puzzle page and Quiz
 * Mega Moment chosen by a reader
 * Activity: Episode scorecard
 * Activity: How to be the Doctor (2 pages)
 * 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 (Monsuno Core and The Pirates DVD and player set and Doctor Who Plush TARDIS )

Credits
What they would do with a pet dinosaur
 * Editor: Natalie Barnes I'd get a eodromaeus so he could be pals with my dog.
 * Deputy Editor: Annabel Gibson I'd ride a triceratops to the shops.
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett I'd have a velociraptor as a guard dog.
 * Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies I'd like a T-rex to frighten the cats off my garden.
 * Writer: Craig Donaghy I'd get a couple of pterodactyls to fly me away on holiday.
 * Designer: Phil White I'd take a diplodocus to the park and play hide and seek

Hidden Away / Facts

 * WHO SAID: "Bad combo – no sense of humour and that chin." Oswin in Asylum of the Daleks.
 * In The Evil of the Daleks the Emperor Dalek's guard had black domes and blue spheres.
 * Actor Richard E Grant voiced a Ninth Doctor in the webcast animation Scream of the Shalka and he played a version of the Doctor in the Comic Relief special The Curse of Fatal Death in 1999.
 * The Dalek telepathic link is called the Path Web.

Further information

 * The subscription offer for this issue was a copy of The Ultimate Monster Guide and 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 Build-Your-Own TARDIS.