DWA 255

DWA 255
Cover date:	9 February- 15 February 2012
Format:	36 full colour pages stapled
Editor:	Natalie Barnes
Publisher:	Immediate Media Company London Limited
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Doctor Who Adventures #255 was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 9 January 2012

Contents

Free gift

• Mini battle pack featuring Silurians and Silence

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

• FEATURE: Monsters most embarrassing moments!
• Matt Smith’s EPISODE GUIDE 1: The Impossible Astronaut

Comic strips

• Cold Comfort
• AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters)

Photo Story (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)

• TIME LINE: Silurian

Fast Facts (Collectable Fact Files)

A4 ULTIMATE DALEK Dalek Sec Hybrid

Posters

A3 A Good Man Goes to War

A4 Weeping Angel

Behind the scenes

• Backstage secrets of the best bedroom in the world from The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.

Interview

• None this issue

Also featuring

• Welcome and news (“Hello Time Travellers!”)
• Geronimo: Gossip: News, Hot or not,
• Big Puzzle: Giant Wordsearch (2 pages)
• Puzzle page and Quiz
• FUN STUFF: Monster Dates
• Readers contributions: Who and You Upload
  featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
• Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
• COMPETITION: Design a gadget for the Doctor that will be used in a future comic strip.
• Competition Goodies (Character Building Dalek Factory Set )

Main team credits

With their monster Valentine dates

• Editor: Natalie Barnes A Silent – they look so good in a suit
  
• Deputy Editor: Paul Laing A Handbot – as it has no mouth, I’d eat its dinner too!
  
• Production Editor: Liza Millett The Minotaur – I like a monster with a healthy appetite
  
• Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies A Hath – they have an endless supply of ‘bubbly’
  
• Deputy Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter A Silurian – I love lizards!
  

Hidden Away / Facts

• WHO SAID: “Well? I’m not going to hug first…!”

Amy Pond in the The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe

• A new PS3 and PS Vita computer game is released in March 2012 called The Eternity Clock.
• Former Doctor Who and SJA boss Russell T Davies has written a new series for CBBC called ‘Aliens and Wizards.’
• The Impossible Astronaut was originally to be called ‘The Year of the Moon.’
• In 1881, Vastra battled and ate mummies (The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2011).
• The Eleventh Doctor found his greatest fear in Room 11 in the The God Complex
• Script details for the bedroom featured in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe written by Steven Moffat, included a long list of seventeen things – missing seem to include a foot spa, game of Cluedo and a yellow fort (but they could be hidden away)

Further information

• The subscription offer for this issue was four issues for £1 then a saving of 10% (thirteen issues for £29.25) (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 Silence document folder, sketch pad and pencils.

External links

• The official magazine site with features and news of the latest available issue

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