DWA 255

Doctor Who Adventures #was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 9 January 2012

Free gift

 * Mini battle pack featuring Silurians and Silence

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * FEATURE: Monsters most embarrassing moments!
 * Matt Smith’s EPISODE GUIDE 1: The Impossible Astronaut

Comic strips

 * Cold Comfort
 * AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters)

Photo Story (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)

 * TIME LINE: Silurian

Fast Facts (Collectable Fact Files)

 * A4 ULTIMATE DALEK Dalek Sec Hybrid

Posters

 * A3 A Good Man Goes to War
 * A4 Weeping Angel

Behind the scenes

 * Backstage secrets of the best bedroom in the world from The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.

Interview

 * None this issue

Also featuring

 * Welcome and news (“Hello Time Travellers!”)
 * Geronimo: Gossip: News, Hot or not,
 * Big Puzzle: Giant Wordsearch (2 pages)
 * Puzzle page and Quiz
 * FUN STUFF: Monster Dates
 * Readers contributions: Who and You Upload featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
 * Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
 * COMPETITION: Design a gadget for the Doctor that will be used in a future comic strip.
 * Competition Goodies (Character Building Dalek Factory Set )

Main team credits
With their monster Valentine dates
 * Editor: Natalie Barnes A Silent – they look so good in a suit
 * Deputy Editor: Paul Laing A Handbot – as it has no mouth, I’d eat its dinner too!
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett The Minotaur – I like a monster with a healthy appetite
 * Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies A Hath – they have an endless supply of ‘bubbly’
 * Deputy Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter A Silurian – I love lizards!

Hidden Away / Facts

 * WHO SAID: “Well? I’m not going to hug first…!”
 * Amy Pond in the The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe


 * A new PS3 and PS Vita computer game is released in March 2012 called The Eternity Clock.
 * Former Doctor Who and SJA boss Russell T Davies has written a new series for CBBC called ‘Aliens and Wizards.’
 * The Impossible Astronaut was originally to be called ‘The Year of the Moon.’
 * In 1881, Vastra battled and ate mummies (The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2011).
 * The Eleventh Doctor found his greatest fear in Room 11 in the X
 * Script details for the bedroom featured in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe written by Steven Moffat, included a long list of 17 things – missing seem to include a foot spa, game of Cluedo and a yellow fort (but they could be hidden away)

Further information

 * The subscription offer for this issue was 4 issues for £1 then a saving of 10% (13 issues for £29.25) (UK).
 * This issue had a cover price of £2.50 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted.
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as a Silence document folder, sketch pad and pencils