DWA 125

The one hundred twenty-fifth issue of Doctor Who Adventures had a cover date of 23 July - 29 July 2009.

Free gift

 * Davros Trainer Bag

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * FACTFILE: K9
 * TOP TEN: Doctor Who Animals
 * INSIDE OUT (schematic): Cybermen

Comic content

 * The Rising Tide (4 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

 * From: TV: The Unquiet Dead - Featuring The Gelth arriving and the Ninth Doctor and Rose trapped.

The Doctor's Data (Collectable Fact File)

 * None

Posters

 * A3 TV: World War Three - featuring The Ninth Doctor menaced by a Slitheen outside the TARDIS
 * A4 "TARDIS has been located" Dalek from TV: Journey's End - montage featuring Dalek, TARDIS and the Dalek Crucible.
 * A4 Who's Who Collection: Tritovore

Behind the scenes

 * Making the Ood

Interview

 * None

Additional features

 * Welcome and news
 * Find in this issue hidden somewhere Dalek Sec to win a set of Doctor Who Series 2 DVD (Fear Her, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday).


 * Puzzles and Quiz (Planet of the Dead)
 * Readers contributions: Time Agent Upload / Doctor You
 * featuring reader's letters, photos, and art.
 * Funny Who-Ha! (caption competition)


 * Competition Goodies (My Sims Game and Wii set, PSP and Gargoylz books)

Credits
Also listing: Their favourite planet destination
 * Editor: Moray Laing, I like the sound of Argolis
 * Deputy Editor: Annabel Gibson, Clom (though I would have to avoid the Abzorbalof!)
 * Senior Art Editor: Paul Lang, Planet of the hats
 * Art Editor: Steve Clarke, Saturn
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett, I'd chill out with Donna on Midnight
 * Picture Editor: Shaila Bux, Midnight
 * Acting Writer: Olivia McLearon, New Earth with all those lovely cat people
 * Contributing Art Editor: Nikki Davies
 * Contributing Sub Editor Claudia Dudman
 * Parallel Hero: Rose Tyler, Earth, the real one not the one I'm stuck on!

Hidden Away / Facts

 * This magazine can be recycled: Or give it to K9 to stick in the black hole.
 * Carmen: "I always knew you were going to say that I just knew it!"
 * Cybermen have an artificially grown central nervous system threaded throughout the suit so it responds like a living thing.
 * The Gelths original bodies were destroyed in the Time war and they got trapped as gas.
 * The Ood's first description was "balding clone-like creatures with a face of tentacles" and written by Russell T Davies.
 * Prosthetic masks are glued onto the face and so can not be used again and again.

Additional details

 * This issue's comic strip features the Octron, a creature created by nine year old competition runner-up Thomas Leader.
 * Readers were encouraged to sign up at www.bbcmagazineinsiders.com for the chance to win prizes and join the reader panel.
 * This issue included the promotional code G1sella to unlock new features on The Darksmith Legacy / Doctor Who Adventures online site at www.thedarksmithlegacy.com/dwa.
 * The subscription offer for this issue with a saving of 30%, over £18 (UK) and a copy of Doctor Who: Monsters and Villains or 40% saving without gift as promoted on inserted flyer.
 * This issue had a cover price of £2.10 (UK) and the free gift was bagged.
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as a Tenth Doctor stationery set.

External link

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