DWA 227

DWA 227
Cover date:	21 July- 27 July 2011
Format:	36 full colour pages stapled
Editor:	Natalie Barnes
Publisher:	BBC Magazines
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Doctor Who Adventures #227 was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 21 June 2011

Contents

Free gift

• Dalek Disk Shooter

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

• FACTFILE: Headless monks
• TARDIS SCANNER: Daleks

Comic stories

• Missing in Action
• AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters) The Aaagh!prentice spoof

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

• From: TV: A Good Man Goes to War
  River Song is Melody Pond!

Fast Facts (Collectable Fact Files)

• None this issue

Posters

A3 The Doctor

A4 Siren

A4 ULTIMATE MONSTER: Scarecrow

A4 TARDIS SCANNER: Dalek

Behind the scenes

• Art Department: Making the Flesh bowl – the Ganger’s cloning vat

Interview

• Siren

Also featuring

• Welcome and news (“Hello Time Travellers!”)
• Geronimo: Animating old Who, new series writers, True or False, Hello Sweetie!, Hot or not
• Big Puzzle: Giant Wordsearch (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 (Doctor Who Puzzles, Cars 2 Spy toys)

Credits

With their scariest thing about Doctor Who

• Editor: Natalie Barnes the Monsters
  
• Deputy Editor: Paul Laing the scream at the start of the theme music
  
• Production Editor: Liza Millett Aunties dress sense
  
• Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies The Weeping Angels of course
  
• Deputy Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter The Siren! Waaah!
  

Hidden Away / Facts

• A Dalek casing allows them to survive in space or under water.
• Captain Avery’s galleon was called the Fancy.
• In the 51st and 52nd century the Church is a military organisation that mixes warfare with religion.
• The Headless monks are a religious order separate from the Church.
• The word ‘sarcophagus’ comes from the Greek words for ‘flesh - eating’.
• Amy Pond was born in 1989.
• The Scarecrows were brought to life using molecular fringe animation by the Family of Blood.

Further information

• The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of 10% following four issues for £1 (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 Doctor Who bag.

External links

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