DWA 40

The 40th issue of the BBC's fortnightly Doctor Who Adventures.

Free gift

 * Free tub of Dalek slime and a mutant slimy rubber brain.

Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * Meet the Slitheen

Comic content

 * Cold War (Part One) (6 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

 * From: (TV): Utopia


 * Featuring Professor Yana realising he is the Master and inside the TARDIS regenerates.

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

 * File 36: Dalek Emperor

Adventure Guide / Doctor Who Confidential
(Including readers views and behind the scenes)
 * (TV): Blink

Posters
montage featuring Jack Harkness, the Doctor and Martha Jones montage featuring Judoon and spacecraft on the Moon montage featuring parent and child Slitheen montage featuring the Cyber Leader, a suited Doctor and Cybus airship montage featuring Weeping Angel and the Doctor on TV
 * A3 “Good to see you AGAIN!“ Captain Jack in (TV): Utopia
 * A4 “Prepare to be CATALOGUED“ Judoon Captain in (TV): Smith and Jones
 * A4 “I want my HUNT“Carl Slitheen in The Sarah Jane Adventures
 * A4 “I have an ARMY!“ Cyber Controller in (TV): The Age of Steel
 * A4 “Don’t turn your BACK!“ the Doctor in (TV): Blink

Additional features

 * Welcome (including latest news/ preview teaser)
 * The Vortex (Who News)
 * Webwatch Sarah Jane Smith
 * Humour: ‘’Insane Invasions’’ The Family of Blood takes over animals instead of people becoming The Family Pets of Blood! (By Christopher Cooper)
 * Find in this issue hidden somewhere Cyber Leader to win a Doctor Who Shaker Maker!


 * Monster Gallery / Time Agent Upload
 * featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.


 * Make It
 * Cut out and make Malmooth Mask


 * Puzzle Pages
 * Who Knows (Questions and Answers)
 * Competition Goodies: fantastic Four Goodies, Air Hogs, The Dark is Rising goodie bag.

Credits
Also listing: favourite monster this series

Editor: Moray Laing, Weeping Angels

Art Editor: Samantha Robinson, Weeping Angels

Senior Writer: Helen Philips, Carrionites

Picture Editor: Shaila Bux, Pig Slaves

Production Editor: Ed Lomas, Weeping Angels

Editorial Assistant: Olivia McLearon, Scarecrows

Experiments by Prof Lazarus, The Lazarus Monster

Hidden Away / Facts
This magazine can be recycled: “And remember – don’t blink …”

Frau Clovis: “The Duke of Manhattan is loving The Sarah Jane Adventures.”


 * The yucky Slitheen creatures can be destroyed by acetic acid. Maria Jackson and Rose’s mum Jackie Tyler were able to destroy them by throwing lots of vinegar at them.
 * The Family of Blood stole a vortex manipulator like Captain Jack Harkness’s.
 * Steven Moffat, the man who wrote Blink, called the strange house at the centre of the story Wester Drumlins House after somewhere he used to live.
 * David Tennant’s favourite Doctor Who monster is the Zygon.
 * When Professor Yana opens his Time Lord pocket watch you can hear the voices of lots of older versions of the Master calling to him.
 * The Malmooth were an insectoid race who lived in massive cities on their home planet. They can drink their own internal milk.

Additional details

 * Published every two weeks on a Thursday, this issue had a cover price of £2.10 (UK).
 * The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of over £6 (UK). No other incentive is offered.
 * This issue's free gift was selotaped to the cover.
 * Next issue's free gift is a Halloween-themed monster dress up set featuring claws and a scarecrow mask!

External link

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