DWA 102

The 102nd issue of the BBC's weekly Doctor Who Adventures.

Free gift

 * One of four differnt stationary sets

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * FACTFILE: Hidden Aliens (Abzorbaloff, Krillitane, Family of Blood, Slitheen, Vashta Nerada, Gelth, Sun-possessed and Vespiform)

Comic content

 * Store Wars (5 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

 * From: TV: The Next Doctor


 * Featuring the rescue of the children including Frederick and the CyberKing rising. (Extended feature over 4 pages)

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

 * Ultimate Collection booklet Sontarans Part 2 of 2

Posters
featuring The Ninth Doctor and Grandma Gelth
 * A3 TV: The Unquiet Dead
 * A4 Who’s Who Collection: Martha

Behind the scenes

 * FACTFILE: Matt Smith

Additional features

 * Welcome and news
 * Find in this issue hidden somewhere Sarah Jane Smith to win a Doctor Who set of Series Four 5” Action Figures


 * Activity / Make-it
 * Colour it: Dalek Sec


 * Funny Who Ha!: Caption Competition
 * Readers contributions: Time Agent Upload / Doctor You
 * featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.


 * Puzzles and Quiz (TARDIS)


 * Competition Goodies (The Nemonite Invasion Doctor Who audio CD and Diary of a Wimpy Kid books)
 * This issue also included a readers survey for a chance to win a TV: The Next Doctor DVD

Credits
Also listing: what they like about the Sontarans

Editor: Moray Laing, Their spaceships…cool!

Deputy Editor: Annabel Gibson,Their ugly mugs

Senior Art Editor: Paul Lang, Their boastfulness

Art Editor: Steve Clarke, Their little spaceships

Production Editor: Liza Millett, Their names – especially Kaagh the Slayer!

Picture Editor: Shaila Bux, Their war-cry – Sontar-ha!

Writer: Mel Bezalel, Their very logical rules of war!

Sontaran Helper: Staal, Our glorious battles

Hidden Away / Facts
This magazine can be recycled: Sontar-ha!, Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha!, Sontar-ha!

Miss Hartigan: “I’ve met some brats in my time. If those urchins in the workhouse didn’t eat for a week they’d whinge and cry. Pathetic!”
 * The youngest actor chosen to play the Doctor (Matt Smith) aged 26, had played football for Nottingham Forest and Leicester City youth teams before having to stop because of a back injury.
 * Matt Smith was born on 28 October 1982.
 * Named Sontarans who have appeared in Doctor Who include Kaagh, Linx, Skorr, Staal and Stor.

Additional details

 * The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of 30%, over £18 (UK) and a Fifth Doctor Audio CD Renaissance of the Daleks or 40% saving without gift as promoted on inserted flyer.
 * This issue had a cover price of £2.10 (UK) was bagged.
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as a set of Dalek playing cards.

External link

 * The official BBC magazine site with cover gallery and news of the latest available issue