DWA 63

The sixty-third issue of Doctor Who Adventures had a cover date of 8 May - 14 May 2008.

Free gift

 * This issue’s free gift is a Sontaran Pencil Case, pen, pencil and rubber.

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * STORY PREVIEW: The Doctor's Daughter

Comic content

 * Nightmare on the Boulevard (Part One) (5 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

 * From: TV: Partners in Crime - Featuring Donna miming to the Tenth Doctor

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

 * UNIT

Behind the scenes)

 * Creating the explosion of Mount Vesuvius

Posters

 * A3 TV: The Poison Sky - montage featuring Luke Rattigan and Sontaran
 * A4 "It's a BRAIN!" the Doctor from TV: Planet of the Ood - montage featuring the Ood
 * A4 TV: Human Nature - featuring BBC DVD cover without caption with Martha, the maid, John Smith, Scarecrow and pages from A Journal of Impossible Things
 * A4 "Now don’t start FIGHTING" the Doctor from TV: The Sontaran Stratagem - montage featuring the Doctor, Donna and Martha

Additional features

 * Welcome and news
 * Find in this issue hidden somewhere Ood Sigma to win a Doctor Who Shaker Maker!
 * Things to do with a defeated enemy: Matron Cofelia – nurse to the Slitheen (by Christopher Cooper).


 * Activity / Make-it
 * Time Agent Scorecard Story 6
 * Search and Find: 2-page The Weakest Link scene (by Christopher Cooper)


 * Puzzle Pages and Doctor Who Quiz (The Poison Sky)
 * Who Knows (Questions and Answers)
 * Readers contributions: Monster Gallery / Time Agent Upload / Doctor You
 * featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.


 * Competition Goodies ( Dalek/Cyberman costumes, Mr Magorium DVD)
 * BIG WIN: Lifesize Ood head Token 2

Credits
Also listing: favourite bit of The Fires of Pompeii
 * Editor: Moray Laing, The Doctor saving the family
 * Art Editor: Paul Lang, Donna pleading to save the family
 * Senior Writer: Annabel Gibson, “I’m Spartacus.” “So am I.”
 * Picture Editor: Shaila Bux, Donna shock at speaking Latin
 * Sub-Editor: Mel Bezalel, Lucius’s arm breaking off, argh!
 * Freelancer: Liza Millett, The Doctor’s water pistol
 * Freelancer: Richard Atkinson, Caecillius’s Celtic
 * Office Psychic: Pyrovile, Turning everybody to stone

Hidden Away / Facts

 * This magazine can be recycled: At your local collection point, or volcano – whichever is nearest.
 * Frau Clovis: "The Duke of Manhattan’s washing machine has broken down, so he can’t clean his clothes. Yuck!"
 * The Doctor Who Prom, hosted by Freema Agyeman, will be at 11am, 27th July at the Royal Albert Hall.
 * The Weakest Link Doctor Who Special was won by Camille Coduri who played Jackie Tyler.
 * Sontarans have three fingers.
 * For the visual effects team to recreate the Mount Vesuvius eruption they used it, as it is today, for the template.
 * UNIT : Unified Intelligence Taskforce
 * The Earth protecting ship the Valiant was built by Harold Saxon, the Master

Additional details

 * The subscription offer is revised for this issue with a saving of 30%, over £18 (UK) and a free Character Options Micro Universe set.
 * This issue and its free gifts were cover mounted.
 * Next issue's free gifts are listed as Doctor dress set (glasses, sonic screwdriver and badges).

External link

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