DWA 247

Doctor Who Adventures # was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 8 December 2011.

Free gift

 * Giant monster pen

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * FACTFILE: Ten things you might not know about the TARDIS
 * FACTFILE: Celestial Bodies!
 * RIVER'S DIARY: The Curse of the Black Spot

Comic content

 * The Atomon Invasion
 * AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters)

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

 * From: TV: Night Terrors - Highlighted moments from episode 10

Fast Facts

 * FACTFILE: Crime Watch 9: Gantok

Posters

 * A3 The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
 * A4 The TARDIS and The Doctor
 * A4 The Doctor
 * A4 ULTIMATE MONSTER: Adipose

Behind the scenes

 * The Gunpowder Plot - Treason and Plot!

Interview

 * None this issue

Also featuring

 * Welcome and news (Hello Time Travellers!)
 * Geronimo: Gossip: What's new, True or False, Hot or not
 * Big Puzzle: Giant Crossword (2 pages)
 * Puzzle page and Quiz
 * Readers contributions: Who and You Upload - featuring reader's letters, photos, and art.
 * Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
 * Competition Goodies (Daily Draw: iPod Touch, Sonic screwdriver, Doctor Who Puzzle, The Brilliant Book 2012, DVD Player and Box set, Micro Figures, Dalek Factory).

Credits
With who they'd like to invite to a Christmas dinner
 * Editor: Natalie Barnes Dorium – to tell us stories by the fire!
 * Deputy Editor: Paul Laing Kovarian – she's greatly misunderstood.
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett Auntie and Uncle – for after-dinner cabaret!
 * Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies Captain Jack – so he could give me a kiss under the mistletoe!
 * Deputy Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter The Siren because I love her!

Hidden Away / Facts

 * WHO SAID: "You didn't think this was over, did you? I'm the Ghost of Christmas Present!" Amy Pond in A Christmas Carol.

Further information

 * The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of 25% (six months for £49.99) (UK).
 * This issue had a cover price of £2.50 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted.
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as a bumper Christmas Issue with eight free gifts (2012 calendar, Doctor Mask, holo stickers, Angel make for top of tree, Christmas card from the Doctor, three monster gift tags).
 * Readers Offer: 25% discount on personalised Doctor Who cards from funkypigeon.com