DWA 282

Doctor Who Adventures # was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 16 August 2012.

Free gift

 * A Monster set including Silent magnet, bubble stickers, Sontaran stamper, Silurian badge, bouncy ball, Cyber head keyring AND a packet of Doctor Who Monster Invasion trading cards.

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * FACTFILE: Who's Who (Series Seven)
 * POCKET SCIENCE FAST FACTS: Vortex manipulator
 * FUN FEATURE: Creature Feature – Master reviews Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead

Comic content

 * 24-Hour News Invasion
 * AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters)

Fast Facts

 * FACTFILE: DOCTOR'S COMPANIONS: Amy Pond

Posters

 * A3 Lego monster fighters
 * A4 Cyberman
 * A4 ULTIMATE MONSTER Gelth

Behind the scenes

 * Making the Slitheen for Aliens of London

Interview

 * None this issue

Also featuring

 * Welcome and news (Hello Time Travellers!)
 * Geronimo: News, Monster Companions!, Freaky Formula, Joke, Hot or Not
 * Big Puzzle: Plan your own Doctor Who Adventure (2 pages)
 * Jokes, Puzzle page and Quiz
 * Mega Moments
 * What's on the Doctor's phone messages.
 * Readers contributions: Who and You Upload - featuring reader's letters, photos, and art.
 * Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
 * Competition Goodies ( and Plush TARDIS )
 * Competition: Design a spaceship

Credits
With the adventure they would like to have with the Doctor
 * Editor: Natalie Barnes I want to go see the dinosaurs!
 * Deputy Editor: Annabel Gibson Fighting Autons in Ancient Rome!
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett A war of words with the Carrionites!
 * Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies I'd go back to the discovery of New Zealand so I could see a live moa!
 * Writer: Craig Donaghy I'd like to visit the future and fight robots. Or clowns. Or robot clowns!
 * Designer: Phil White See Devils on the Titanic.

Hidden Away / Facts

 * WHO SAID: "Anywhere you want, any time you want. One condition: it has to be amazing." Eleventh Doctor in The Eleventh Hour.
 * Unlike the TARDIS, a vortex manipulator uses the energy from the Time Vortex to bounce between time zones.
 * The Gelth lost their bodies in the Time War.

Further information

 * The centre page poster pullout is an advertisement poster for Lego Monster Fighters.
 * The prize for the Design a Spaceship competition was for a clay model to be made and put on display at the Doctor Who Experience (London/Cardiff) and an appearance in the Doctor Who Adventures comic story.
 * The subscription offer for this issue was four issues for £1 then a saving of 10% (thirteen issues for £30.42) (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 a Dalek Attack Set comprising Dalek keyring, Bouncy Ball and a paint your own Dalek.