DWA 12

The 12th issue of the BBC's fortnightly Doctor Who Adventures.

Free gift

 * Two Doctor Who pencils and four alien rubbers

Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * Regeneration (The Story of Doctor Who)
 * Ultimate Gadgets (Guide to Gadgets from Series one and two)

Comic content

 * The Battle of Reading Gaol (Part Two of Two) (6 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

 * From: TV: The Age of Steel
 * The escape from Lumic’s factory

Monster A-Z

 * D is for Daleks

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

 * File 11: Gelth

Adventure guide and behind the scenes feature

 * TV: Love & Monsters

Posters

 * A3 “They’re just so … ALIEN!“ Rose Tyler in TV: The End of the World - montage featuring various Season 1 monsters
 * A4 “It’s like you go looking for TROUBLE!“ Jackie Tyler in TV: The Christmas Invasion - featuring Rose Tyler and Jackie Tyler
 * A4 Untitled - featuring the Doctor and Martha Jones

Additional features

 * Welcome (including latest news/ preview teaser)
 * The Vortex (Who News)
 * Find in this issue hidden somewhere Yvonne Hartman's sunglasses to win a Doctor Who TARDIS clock!


 * TARDIS Inbox
 * Featuring readers letters, photos and readers art


 * Fun Stuff
 * Illustrated school scene to find and locate fluid links. (2 pages)


 * Make It
 * Cut out and make Krillitane mask


 * Puzzle Pages / Fun stuff
 * Humour: ‘Things to do with a defeated enemy’ The Daleks and Cybermen host their own reality show “I’m a Cyborg – Let me Invade Here!” (by Christopher Cooper)


 * Competition Goodies: Doctor Who DVD, Doctor Who Shaker Makers, Captain Scarlett sets and Dare Devil Stunt sets.

Credits
Also featuring favourite Doctor Who gadget
 * Assistant Editor: Moray Laing, K9
 * Senior Designer: Paul Lang, The Doctor’s mallet
 * Senior Writer: Annabel Gibson, Capt Jack’s sonic blaster
 * Picture Editor: Shaila Bux, The Sonic Screwdriver
 * Production Editor: Ed Lomas, 3-D glasses
 * Editorial Assistant: Olivia McLearon, The TARDIS
 * Miss Hartman’s Sunglasses by Torchwood Frames

Hidden Away / Facts

 * Mini-motto 5: “That’s why I keep travelling – to be proved wrong ….”
 * This magazine can be recycled: “It’s the end … ”
 * Frau Clovis: “The Duke of Manhattan is suffering from sunburn after his recent holiday. He’ll be back with us soon …”
 * If you watch The Unquiet Dead carefully you will see at least one Gelth flee into a gas pipe!
 * When the Time Lords were alive they could have twelve regenerations, meaning thirteen different bodies.
 * The pork-chop-eating monster that appeared in Love & Monsters was originally to be unnamed, but was later called the Hoix.
 * Russell T Davies contributed to a children’s television magazine series Why Don’t You … ? that also featured LINDA (Liverpool Investigation 'N' Detective Agency).
 * The Blue Peter Design-a-Monster competition (resulting in the Abzorbaloff) received 43,920 entries.

Additional details

 * Published every two weeks on a Thursday, this issue had a cover price of £1.99 (UK).
 * The comic strip in this issue was the first two-part story to be published by DWA and each part had a separate title.
 * 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 two free gifts are named as a creepy Cassandra notebook plus stickers.

External link

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