DWM 471

The 471st issue of Doctor Who Magazine was cover dated April 2014.

As the issue was cover dated just a few months after the 50th anniversary of "The Survivors", its cover billed the issue as a 50 years of the Daleks souvenir issue.

Profiles / Interviews

 * David Graham

Comic strip

 * The Blood of Azrael part 2
 * Story: Scott Gray
 * Pencils: Mike Collins
 * Inks: David A Roach
 * Colours: James Offredi
 * Letters: Roger Langridge
 * Editors: Tom Spilsbury & Peter Ware


 * Doctor Whoah! by Baxter

The Fact of Fiction

 * The Mutants (aka The Daleks)
 * Feature by Alan Barnes

The DWM Review

 * DVD: The Web of Fear
 * Audio: The Dying Light, Antidote to Oblivion, The King of Sontar
 * Ebooks: Nothing O'Clock, The Death Pit
 * Books: Companions: Fifty Years of Doctor Who Assistants

Competitions

 * Win the unofficial guide Companions: Fifty Years of Doctor Who Assistants
 * Win Harvest of Time book
 * Win Scavenger CD
 * Win The Crooked Man CD
 * Win updated two-volume edition of The Television Companion

Coming soon

 * Audio: Scavenger, The Crooked Man, Starborn
 * Ebook: Salt of the Earth

The Time Team

 * The Fires of Pompeii

Production notes

 * Steven Moffat
 * The Doctor Who head writer and executive producer explains the development of the script from start to finish.

Galaxy Forum

 * DWM readers discuss the Twelfth Doctor's new costume and the coming end of the classic Doctor Who DVD range

A History of Doctor Who in 100 Objects...

 * Half a million tons of TNT (from Daleks: The Secret Invasion)

Special features

 * We Are the Daleks
 * Jonathan Morris explains the longevity of the Daleks across television, prose, comics and audio


 * Anatomy of a Dalek
 * Gavin Rymill illustrates and writes about what keeps the mutated creature inside a Dalek alive and armed.


 * The Life and Times of a Dalek!
 * Gavin Rymill examines the journey a Dalek originally constructed by Shawcraft in 1963 has taken and where it is now.


 * The Model of Perfection!
 * In part two of this feature, Mike Tucker, Alan Marshall and Nick Kool discuss how they achieved their work as the BBC Visual Effects team.

Credits

 * Editor: Tom Spilsbury
 * Assistant Editor: Peter Ware
 * Art Editor: Richard Atkinson
 * Editorial Assistants: John Ainsworth, Mark Wright
 * Panini UK Ltd


 * Managing Director: Mike Riddell
 * Managing Editor: Alan O'Keefe
 * Head of Production: Mark Irvine
 * Production Assistant: Jez Meteyard
 * Circulation & Trade Marketing Controller: Katie Wilkinson
 * Marketing Executive: Jess Bell
 * BBC Worldwide, UK Publishing


 * Director of UK Publishing: Nicholas Brett
 * Head of UK Publishing: Chris Kerwin
 * Head of Editorial, UK Publishing: Jenny Potter
 * UK Publishing Co-ordinator: Eva Abramik