DWA 263

Doctor Who Adventures # was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 5 April 2012

Free gift

 * Nine piece stationery set (including giant clip, pencil, pen, eraser, Dalek notepad, ruler and 3 monster bands)

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * FACTFILE: All the Strange, strange creatures
 * FACTFILE: River Song’s Diary: Episode 11 The God Complex and Episode 12 Closing Time
 * FACTFILE: Disasterous Monster Plans
 * Matt Smith’s EPISODE GUIDE 9: Night Terrors

Comic strips

 * Ghosts of the Never-were
 * AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters)

Mega Moments (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)

 * None this issue.

Fast Facts (Collectable Fact Files)

 * FACTFILE: Regeneration – The Seventh Doctor

Posters

 * A3 BACKSTAGE: Arthur Darvill, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan
 * A4 Madam Vastra
 * A4 ULTIMATE DALEK Special Weapons Dalek

Behind the scenes

 * Captioned behind the scenes pictures.

Interview

 * None this issue

Also featuring

 * Welcome and news (“Hello Time Travellers!”)
 * Geronimo: News, Joke, Hot or Not,
 * Big Puzzle: Giant Wordsearch (2 pages)
 * Puzzle page and Quiz
 * Jokes
 * Readers contributions: Who and You Upload featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
 * Doctor, Doctor! (Q&A)
 * Competition Goodies (Lego Technic sets, Pokepark2 wii game set)

Main team credits
With their weirdest monsters
 * Editor: Natalie Barnes The Cheetah People – I met some on holiday recently
 * Deputy Editor: Paul Laing The Empress of the Racnoss – although she was just being herself!
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett The Carrionites – they like spelling almost as much as I do!
 * Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies Adipose – you never get rid of fat that easily!
 * Deputy Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter Cybermen. I played one once, you know!

Hidden Away / Facts
An Antibody in Let's Kill Hitler.
 * WHO SAID: “You will experience a tingling sensation and then death.”
 * Twenty-five year old actress Jenna-Louise Coleman is announced as the Eleventh Doctor’s next travelling companion after Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) and Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams) leave the series.
 * Bedtime stories on Gallifrey included The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes and Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday (according to the Doctor in Night Terrors.
 * Night Terrors was also the title of a short story in the Doctor Who The Official Annual 2012 about the old Time Lord ruler Rassilon.
 * ‘Petrichor’ means “the smell of dust after rain”.
 * The Seventh Doctors last words were “I’ve got to stop him!”

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 new regular cover price of £2.60 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted.
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as one of two giant notebooks with 3D covers (TARDIS or Silence)