DWA 190

The 190th issue of the BBC's weekly Doctor Who Adventures included a twelve-page The Sarah Jane Adventures pull-out mag.

Free gift

 * Dress up Doctor Who beanie hat.

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * PREVIEW: (SJA): The Empty Planet
 * FACT FILE: Witchy Women
 * FACT FILE: Who are the Shansheeth

Comic story

 * The Trick (4 pages)

Mega Moments (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)

 * None This Issue

Fast Facts (Collectable Fact File)

 * SJA Alien Files: The Blathereen

Posters

 * A3 Eleventh Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith
 * A4 Ood
 * A4 The Maze of the Dead

Behind the scenes

 * None this issue

Interview

 * Katy Manning who plays Jo Grant

Additional features

 * Welcome and news
 * Puzzle page and Quiz
 * Big Puzzle: Halloween Themed Find-it! (Illustrated by ?) (2 pages)
 * Big Puzzle: Wordsearch (2 pages)
 * Make-it! : Androvax mask
 * Joke Time
 * Big Puzzle: TARDIS crossword
 * Readers contributions: Who and You Upload
 * featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.


 * Picture Puzzle: Spot the Difference to win Wallace and Gromit book
 * Competition Goodies (Doctor Who: The Brilliant Book 2011, Matchbox Stinky Truck, Terrordactyl toys)

Credits
Editor: Moray Laing

Deputy Editor: Annie Gibson

Senior Art Editor: Paul Lang

Production Editor: Liza Millett

Designer: Melanie Caine

Hidden Away / Facts

 * The Slitheen and the Blathereen are cousins from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorius in the Isop Galaxy.
 * At school, Rani Chandra and Clyde Langer are reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens whom the Ninth Doctor met.
 * The Shansheeth trawl the battlefields of the universe for dead people who need a funeral. A rogue group of Shansheeth called themselves the Brothers of the Wing and claimed to have found the Doctor’s dead body in the wastelands of the Crimson Heart 10,000 light years away from Earth.
 * Jo Grant married Clifford Jones and changed her name to Josephine Jones

Additional details

 * The subscription offer for this issue is four issues for just £1 (UK) with a further saving of 25%
 * This issue had a cover price of £2.99 (UK) and the free gift was bagged.
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as sixty-four Awesome Stickers Including a Fantastic moving Tardis Sticker.

External link

 * The official BBC magazine site with cover gallery and news of the latest available issue