DWA 271

Doctor Who Adventures # was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 31 May 2012.

Free gift

 * Squirty sonic screwdriver

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * FACTFILE: Alien Invasions of Earth
 * FACTFILE: Companions who weren't

Comic content

 * The Mirror War
 * AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters)

Mega Moments (story told as a photo-feature)

 * Secret history of the Silence

Fast Facts

 * FACTFILE: DOCTOR'S COMPANIONS: Captain Jack Harkness

Posters

 * A3 FREAKY FIRST ENCOUNTERS: Second Doctor and Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen (1967)
 * A4 Exterminate
 * A4 ULTIMATE DALEK The Lone Dalek

Behind the scenes

 * Art Team designs for greatest gizmos

Interview

 * None this issue

Also featuring

 * Welcome and news (Hello Time Travellers!)
 * Geronimo: News, Monster Companions!, Freaky Formula, Dalek Hororscope, Hot or Not
 * Big Puzzle: (2 pages)
 * Puzzle page and Quiz
 * What’s on the Doctor’s phone messages.
 * Jokes
 * Readers contributions: Who and You Upload - featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
 * Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
 * Competition Goodies (Horrible Histories / DVD player sets, redakai Championship setand a Doctor Who boardgame)

Credits
With their most liked to text characters
 * Editor: Natalie Barnes A Cyberman to ask for an upgrade!
 * Deputy Editor: Paul Laing I'd text Mrs Tinkle and invite her round to watch Corrie!
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett The Doctor – just to find out where he is!
 * Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies I'd text the Werewolf so we could howl with laughter!
 * Writer: Craig Donaghy I'd text the Smilers some smileys.

Hidden Away / Facts

 * WHO SAID: "Look at the detail on that cheese plant." Eleventh Doctor in The God Complex.
 * River Song will appear in the new series in 2012.
 * The Art Department which builds all the props often have only a few words to go on from a script e.g. "futuristic chess board, large scary device, wrist unit, technical apparatus." The Doctor's sonic cane was described as having a silvery top "which extends exactly like the sonic screwdriver" (and makes the same noise).

Further information

 * The subscription offer for this issue was four issues for £1 then a saving of 10% (thirteen issues for £29.25) (UK).
 * This issue had a cover price of £2.60 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted.
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as an expandable Dalek disc.