DWA 142

The 142nd issue of the BBC's weekly Doctor Who Adventures.

Free gift

 * Five Who gifts (Part 1 of a giant double-sided Tenth Doctor poster, cool postcards, stickers, pencil, TARDIS maze book, and free Dalek rucksack offer).

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * TOP TEN: Watery Moments
 * FACTFILE: Adelaide Brooke
 * FACTFILE: Planet Mars

Comic strip

 * Doomsilk (4 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

 * None

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

 * Countdown to Change: The Seventh Doctor

Posters

 * A3 DW: The Waters of Mars montage featuring the Tenth Doctor and a flooded Andy
 * A4 “Emergency! FIND THE DOCTOR!” Supreme Dalek from DW: The Stolen Earth featuring the Daleks
 * A4 Who’s Who Collection: SJA: Erasmus Darkening

Behind the scenes

 * None

Interview

 * None

Additional features

 * Welcome and news (including Children in Need Doctor Who sneak preview on 20th November 2009)
 * Find in this issue hidden somewhere a Judoon to win a Doctor Who The Day of the Troll Audio CD adventure.


 * Activity / Make-it
 * Who’s Where? (2 page search and find scene showing a street scene illustrated by Christopher Cooper)


 * Puzzles and Quiz (The Waters of Mars)
 * Readers contributions: Time Agent Upload / Doctor You
 * featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.


 * Competition Goodies (Marvel Superheroe Squad, Shorts blu-ray set.)
 * Big Win Competition: worth £650 (UK) includes 10 Doctor Who CD’s, Toshiba Laptop, I-pod touch and game dock.

Credits
Also listing: What they’ll miss about Art Editor Steve who leaves this week Editor: Moray Laing, His humour! Deputy Editor:Paul Lang His wit and charm Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies His master-ly ambition Art Editor: Steve Clarke, The DWA Team, see you another time guys! Production Editor: Liza Millett, His naughtiness, and his love of Wilf Designer: Melanie Caine, I’ll miss that we won’t get to be Partners in Crime Gadgets: Gadget, Gadget-gadget!

Hidden Away / Facts
This magazine can be recycled: Doomsilk is not suitable for domestic recycling. Carmen: “I predict I will not be appearing in this little corner for much longer.”
 * Adelaide Brooke’s death inspires her granddaughter Susie, to one day pilot the first light speed ship to Proxima Centauri.
 * Darkening was a scientist from another world who got trapped between dimensions during his planet’s civil wars.
 * Mars is the Fourth planet from the sun in Earth’s solar system, 40 million miles away.
 * A once great Martian race called the Ice Warriors, built an empire out of snow.
 * In 2058 Bowie Base One was the first off-world colonists to settle on Mars. Their base was built in the Gusev Crater above an underground glacier..

Additional details

 * The subscription offer for this issue with a saving of 30% (UK) – and free gift copies of The Runaway Bride and Voyage of the Damned DVDs are offered to subscribers.
 * This issue had a cover price of £2.99 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted.
 * This issue also includes a free Dalek Rucksack offer (£2.99 p&p UK only).
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as 29 magnets and massive Tenth Doctor poster part two.