DWA 3

The 3rd issue of the BBC's fortnightly Doctor Who Adventures.

Free gift

 * A TARDIS hanging wall clock (or a radio if you picked up a copy in Tesco's supermarket)

Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * K9 and Sarah Jane

Comic content

 * Under the Volcano - Part One (6 pages split up into 4 and 2)

Tales from the TARDIS

 * Jackie Tyler's top five moments!

Interview

 * Nicholas Briggs - Man of Voices

The Doctor's Data (Collectable Fact File)

 * File 03: TARDIS

Adventure guide and behind the scenes feature

 * Tooth and Claw

Posters

 * A3 "Affirmative mistress!" K9 in School Reunion
 * A4 "Hoooooooowwl!" Werewolf in Tooth and Claw (montage featuring the Tenth Doctor, the Moon and the Werewolf)
 * A4 "The mistress is beautiful!"Chip in New Earth

Additional features

 * Welcome (including latest news/ preview teaser)
 * Who's News
 * Preview for The Girl in the Fireplace
 * Preview for Rise of the Cybermen
 * Find in this issue hidden somewhere a Werewolf to win a Doctor Who TARDIS clock!


 * TARDIS Inbox
 * Featuring readers letters, photos, artwork


 * Make It
 * Cut out and make K9


 * Puzzle Pages / Fun stuff
 * Humour: 'Things to do with a defeated enemy (3)' Use a Slitheen hidden in your sofa as an expensive Whoopee cushion (by Christopher Cooper)


 * Competition Goodies: Doctor Who DVDs, Horrible Science kits, Bug Catchers, sets of Sonic X figures
 * Draw a monster Competition to win a family ticket to the Doctor Who Up Close Exhibition in Cardiff.
 * Bonus token for a chance to win a life-size Dalek.

Credits

 * Assistant Editor: Moray Laing
 * Senior Designer: Paul Lang
 * Picture Editor: Shaila Bux
 * Editorial Assistant: Olivia McLearon

Hidden Away / Facts

 * This magazine can be recycled: "It's full moon. Hoooooowwl!"
 * Frau Clovis: "Winning does NOT imply friendship with the Duke of Manhattan!"
 * The fight co-ordinator for the Kung-Fu monks played Leonardo in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films.
 * Tooth and Claw saw the Doctor without his tie for the first time.
 * K9 was created by Bob Baker and Dave Martin.
 * At the end of School Reunion, Sarah Jane Smith was left with the fourth version of K9.

Additional details

 * Published every two weeks on a Thursday, this issue had a cover price of £1.99 (UK). The first three issues were all tagged as NEW and featured a foil logo.
 * The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of over £6 (UK). No other was incentive offered.
 * This issue's free gift of a TARDIS clock was selotaped to the cover; some issues were missing the "Police Public Call Box" sticker above the TARDIS door.
 * Next issue's free gift is named as a radio (unless you buy your copy at Tesco's in which case you'll get the TARDIS clock from last issue. having got the radio last time!).
 * The need to offer an alternative free gift is believed to be attributed to Tesco's needing to re-plan their display of the magazine because of its bulky size.
 * The TARDIS noise "VWORP! VWORP!" in the comic strip is an established sound used in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strips and originating in the Target Books range of novelisations.
 * This cover as well as that of DWA 5 were expanded and used at the Doctor Who Exhibition in Cardiff.

External link

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