DWA 44

The 44th issue of the BBC's fortnightly Doctor Who Adventures.

Free gift

 * A card mounted set including 2 pin badges (TARDIS and Dalek), Toclafane themed mini maze, and small set of holographic stickers.

Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * Robot Santas
 * Christmas Countdown to (DW: Voyage of the Damned)

Comic story

 * A Klytode Christmas (Part One 6 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

 * From: (DW: The Runaway Bride)
 * Featuring The destruction of the Webstar and the Doctor leaving Donna Noble.

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

 * File 37: Chantho

Adventure Guide / Doctor Who Confidential

 * (DW: The Infinite Quest)

Posters

 * A3 “Oi! SANTA!”  The Doctor in (DW: The Runaway Bride) montage featuring The Doctor, Robot Santas and the TARDIS.
 * A4 “The FACE OF BOE they called me …“ Captain Jack Harkness in (DW: Last of the Time Lords) featuring Captain Jack Harkness and Face of Boe.
 * A4 ”Behold. The TRUE Dalek form featuring Dalek Sec from (DW: Daleks in Manhattan)

Additional features

 * Welcome (including latest news/ preview teaser)
 * Who News (The Vortex)
 * Humour: ‘’Things to do with a defeated enemy’’ take a Werewolf to dog training classes along with K9! (by Christopher Cooper)
 * Find in this issue hidden somewhere the Graske to win a Doctor Who Go Glow night light torch!


 * Monster Gallery / Time Agent Upload
 * featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.


 * Puzzle Pages
 * Quiz: The Racnoss
 * Who Knows (Questions and Answers)
 * Competition Goodies: Doctor Who Collected Stories Set, Pirateology board game and a PS2 with Mr Bean goodies

Credits
Also listing: where they would go, past or future? Editor: Moray Laing, To the future! Art Editor: Paul Lang, The past Senior Writer: Annabel Gibson, The past Picture Editor: Shaila Bux, Fast forwarding to the future! Production Editor: Ed Lomas, The past Sub-Editor: Mel Bezalel, Back in time, baby! Editorial Assistant: Olivia McLearon, The past Office Angel: Weeping Angel, Zapped to the past!

Hidden Away / Facts
This magazine can be recycled: “or the Toclafane will be after you!” Jackie Tyler: “Oh, don’t mind me love, I’m just filling in for Frau Clovis while she waits in for the gas man. I’ll take your entries.”
 * The silently moving Robot Santas hire themselves out to the highest bidder.
 * A poll carried out by CBBC Newsround / The Children’s Society voted 1 in 4 for David Tenant as a famous person who would make a good teacher.
 * The Werewolf is really a lupine-wavelenth-haemoviform.
 * Totally Doctor Who presenter Barney Harwood did the posh control voice used in The Infinite Quest.
 * Doctor Who was first broadcast on Christmas Day in 1965.
 * The original Cybermen came from the Earth’s twin planet, Mondas.
 * The Judoon have a “great big lung reserve”.

Additional details

 * This issue's comic strip features the first monster to return: the Klytode that featured in the comic strip The Snag Finders (DWA 26 and DWA 27).
 * Published every two weeks on a Thursday, this issue had a cover price of £2.10 (UK).
 * The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of over £9 (UK). No other incentive is offered.
 * This issue's free gift was not bagged with the set selotaped to the cover.
 * Next issue is a bumper forty-eight pages (available in two covers), priced at £2.99 (UK) and free gifts include two monster face marks, TARDIS key ring, pencil and pencil topper, holographic stickers and a cool 2008 calendar.

External link

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