DWA 85

The eighty-fifth issue of Doctor Who Adventures had a cover date of 9 October - 15 October 2008.

Free gift

 * This issue’s free gift is a NOT a Time Agent Planner but a pocket size Supreme Dalek pad, mini-pen and stickers.

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * PREVIEW ADVENTURE GUIDE: TV The Day of the Clown Part 1
 * FACTFILE: Toclafane
 * FACTFILE: Commander Kaagh TV

Comic content

 * Washed Away! (Part Two) (5 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

 * From: TV: Silence in the Library - Featuring Miss Evangelista wondering off and getting eaten.

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

 * Ultimate Collection: Tenth Doctor Part 1 of 4 of a booklet

Behind the scenes

 * Interview: Eve Newton child actress who played CAL

Posters

 * A3 "The Toclafane … WHO ARE THEY?" The Doctor! from TV: The Sound of Drums - montage featuring the Tenth Doctor and attacking Toclafane
 * A4 "Stop it! You’ll spoil EVERYTHING!" Charlotte Lux from TV: Forest of the Dead - featuring CAL
 * A4 "There’s something on your BACK!" Alice from TV: Turn Left - featuring the Time Beetle on Donna Noble's back.

Additional features

 * Welcome and news (including the Eighth Doctor’s radio adventures)
 * Find in this issue hidden somewhere Maria Jackson to win a Doctor Who Uno set!
 * Search and Find Who’s Where? 2-page Pompeii scene: (by Christopher Cooper).


 * Activity / Make-it
 * How to Draw it: Davros (image from the Comic Maker


 * Puzzle Pages
 * Who Knows (Questions and Answers) by Clayton Hickman
 * Readers contributions: Monster Gallery / Time Agent Upload / Doctor You
 * featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.


 * Competition Goodies (Storm Hawk goodies and a Powered HoverCraft Technokit)
 * BIG WIN: Life-size K9 (worth almost £895) Token 2

Credits
Also listing: which alien world to visit
 * Editor: Moray Laing, Skaro to have a word with Davros
 * Deputy Editor: Annabel Gibson Gallifrey (in the past, obviously, when it still existed)
 * Senior Art Editor: Paul Lang, Frontios. I feel very drawn to it.
 * Art Editor: Steve Clarke, The Library. I'd read very quickly and dodge the Vashta Nerada
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett, The Lost Moon of Poosh – but where is it?
 * Picture Editor: Shaila Bux, Midnight
 * Writer: Mel Bezalel, Raxicoricofallipatorius. Avec gas mask because of the pong.
 * Travel Writer: Jenny, All of them! I want to see the entire universe!

Hidden Away / Facts

 * This magazine can be recycled: Or Commander Kaagh will take revenge on mankind for your folly.
 * Miss Foster: "I found the Lost Moon of Poosh. It was down the back of the sofa with my car keys."
 * The latest Eigth Doctor’s companion is Lucie Miller.
 * Journalist Vivien Rook was the Toclafane's first victim.
 * The first episode of Doctor Who was broadcast on BBC Television at 5:15 PM on 23rd November 1963 (a Saturday).
 * The Last Sontaran, Kaagh, was a Special Assault Squad Commander in the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet.
 * Sarah Jane Smith’s friends attend Park Vale Comprehensive School.
 * The Tenth Doctor once gave ten years of his own life force to repair the TARDIS.

Additional details

 * The subscription offer for this issue with a saving of 30%, over £18 (UK) and a free set of Dalek and Cyberman mini diecasts or 40% off without the addition free gift as leafleted or 40% off without the addition free gift as leafleted.
 * This issue and its free gifts were cover mounted.
 * Next issue's free gifts are listed as Ood Operations communicator watch and stickers.

External link

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