DWA 253

Doctor Who Adventures # was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 26 January 2012.

Free gift

 * Sonic set and badge

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * FACTFILE: 10 Things You Might Not Know About: Silence
 * FEATURE: Monsters' most embarrassing moments!
 * RIVER’S DIARY: Episode 7 A Good Man Goes to War

Comic content

 * The Star Serpent
 * AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters)

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

 * The Amazing Deaths of Rory Williams

Fast Facts

 * see ULTIMATE DALEK collection below

Posters

 * A3 The Doctor's Wife
 * A4 Silence
 * A4 ULTIMATE DALEK Ironside

Behind the scenes

 * Making up Mark Gatiss to play Gantok.

Interview

 * Matt Smith and Steven Moffat reveal show secrets

Also featuring

 * Welcome and news (Hello Time Travellers!)
 * Geronimo: Gossip: News, Hot or not
 * Fun Stuff (Celebrity Monster Chef, Who Look-a-likes)
 * Puzzle page and Quiz
 * Readers contributions: Who and You Upload - featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
 * Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
 * Competition Goodies (Character Building Cyberman Set and Character Building Eleven Doctors Set )

Credits
With dishes they’d like to see on Monster Chef
 * Editor: Natalie Barnes, Fish fingers and custard
 * Deputy Editor: Paul Laing, Ghoul-lash
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett, Gangers and mash
 * Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies, Key slime pie
 * Deputy Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter, Rice cakes

Hidden Away / Facts

 * WHO SAID: "At times like this, I think of my old school motto: Resistance is Exhausting." Gibbis in The God Complex.
 * River Song's name as she was growing up as a friend of Amy Pond and Rory Williams was Mels Zucker.
 * The Silence is NOT an alien species. It is the name of a very powerful religious movement. They are said to experience all of time at once.
 * The Silence are also known as Sentinels of History and the Academy of the Question.
 * Gantok was credited as Rondo Haxton, a variant of "Rondo Hatton", an old horror movie actor, on whom Mark Gatiss' face was based.

Further information

 * The subscription offer for this issue was four issues for £1 then a saving of 10% (three months for £29.29) (UK). A notable reduction of 15%!
 * 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 mini monster battle pack featuring the Ood and Judoon.