DWA 3

DWA 3
Cover date:	3 May - 16 May 2006
Format:	36 full colour pages stapled
Editor:	Moray Laing
Publisher:	BBC Magazines
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The 3rd issue of the BBC's fortnightly Doctor Who Adventures.

Contents

Free gift

• A TARDIS hanging wall clock (or a radio if you picked up a copy in Tesco's supermarket)

Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

• K9 and Sarah Jane

Comic content

• Under the Volcano - Part One (6 pages split up into 4 and 2)

Tales from the TARDIS

• Jackie Tyler's top five moments!

Interview

• Nicholas Briggs - Man of Voices

The Doctor's Data (Collectable Fact File)

• File 03: TARDIS

Adventure guide and behind the scenes feature

• Tooth and Claw

Posters

• A3'"Affirmative mistress!"' K9 in School Reunion
• A4 "Hoooooooowwl!" Werewolf in Tooth and Claw (montage featuring the Tenth Doctor, the Moon and the Werewolf)
• A4 "The mistress is beautiful!" Chip in New Earth

Additional features

• Welcome (including latest news/ preview teaser)
• Who's News

Preview for The Girl in the Fireplace

Preview for Rise of the Cybermen

Find in this issue hidden somewhere a Werewolf to win a Doctor Who TARDIS clock!

• TARDIS Inbox

Featuring readers letters, photos, artwork

• Make It

Cut out and make K9

• Puzzle Pages / Fun stuff

Humour: 'Things to do with a defeated enemy (3)' Use a Slitheen hidden in your sofa as an expensive Whoopee cushion (by Christopher Cooper)

• Competition Goodies: Doctor Who DVDs, Horrible Science kits, Bug Catchers, sets of Sonic X figures
• Draw a monster Competition to win a family ticket to the Doctor Who Up Close Exhibition in Cardiff.
• Bonus token for a chance to win a life-size Dalek.

Credits

• Assistant Editor: Moray Laing
• Senior Designer: Paul Lang
• Picture Editor: Shaila Bux
• Editorial Assistant: Olivia McLearon

Hidden Away / Facts

• This magazine can be recycled: "It's full moon. Hoooooowwl!"
• Frau Clovis: "Winning does NOT imply friendship with the Duke of Manhattan!"
• The fight co-ordinator for the Kung-Fu monks played Leonardo in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films.
• Tooth and Claw saw the Doctor without his tie for the first time.
• K9 was created by Bob Baker and Dave Martin.
• At the end of School Reunion, Sarah Jane Smith was left with the fourth version of K9.

Additional details

• Published every two weeks on a Thursday, this issue had a cover price of £1.99 (UK). The first three issues were all tagged as NEW and featured a foil logo.
• The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of over £6 (UK). No other was incentive offered.
• This issue's free gift of a TARDIS clock was selotaped to the cover; some issues were missing the "Police Public Call Box" sticker above the TARDIS door.
• Next issue's free gift is named as a radio (unless you buy your copy at Tesco's in which case you'll get the TARDIS clock from last issue. having got the radio last time!).
• The need to offer an alternative free gift is believed to be attributed to Tesco's needing to re-plan their display of the magazine because of its bulky size.
• The TARDIS noise "VWORP! VWORP!" in the comic strip is an established sound used in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strips and originating in the Target Books range of novelisations.
• This cover as well as that of DWA 5 were expanded and used at the Doctor Who Exhibition in Cardiff.

External link

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