DWA 62

DWA 62
Cover date:	1 May - 7 May 2008
Format:	36 full colour pages stapled
Editor:	Moray Laing
Publisher:	BBC Magazines
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The 62nd issue of the BBC's weekly Doctor Who Adventures.

Contents

Free gift

• This issue's free gift is a DWA Keyring and 2 Bouncy ball set (Toclafane and Sontaran)

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

• STORY PREVIEW: The Poison Sky

Comic story

• The Great Mordillo (5 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

• From: (TV: Doomsday)
  

Featuring Mickey Smith activating the Genesis Ark.

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

• The Adipose

Behind the scenes

• Filming the Adipose

Posters

• A3 (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem)
  montage featuring the Tenth Doctor and Sontarans
• A4 "I can't BELIEVE I'm doing this!" Donna Noble from (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem)
  featuring Donna and the Doctor flying the TARDIS
• A4 "Words of wisdom, words of POWER!" The Sisters from (TV: The Fires of Pompeii)
  montage featuring The Sibylline Sisterhood

Additional features

• Welcome and news

Find in this issue hidden somewhere, one of the Sibylline Sisterhood to win a Cyberman wall clock

Time Warped! 'Sontaran' potatoes: (by Christopher Cooper).

• Activity / Make-it

Time Agent Scorecard Story 5

Mask: Pyrovile

• Puzzle Pages and Doctor Who Quiz (The Sontaran Stratagem)
• Who Knows (Questions and Answers)
• Readers contributions: Monster Gallery / Time Agent Upload / Doctor You

featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.

• Competition Goodies ( Sontaran Boxset, Speed Racer)

Credits

• Also listing: favourite bit of Partners of Crime
• Editor: Moray Laing, Donna spotting the Doctor
• Art Editor: Paul Lang, The skipping Adipose
• Senior Writer: Annabel Gibson, Donna’s sign language
• Picture Editor: Shaila Bux, Adipose waving bye to Earth
• Sub-Editor: Mel Bezalel, Donna’s suitcases
• Editorial Assistant: Olivia McLearon, Donna waving at Wilf
• Freelancer: Liza Millett, Stacy’s hall
• Freelancer: Richard Atkinson
• Health Consultant: Miss Foster, Multiplying my babies

Hidden Away / Facts

This magazine can be recycled: Or Miss Foster will make Adipose out of you. Mew!
Frau Clovis: "The Duke of Manhattan wanted to know how many Adipose his body would create. So I told him ... lots and lots and lots!"

• The Sontarans are a clone race, grown in batches on the planet Sontar.
• Sontarans have battled the Rutan for thousands of years.
• The Doctor fought on the front lines of the Time War
• Donna Noble used to be called The Little General by her family.
• At 12, Luke Rattigan invented the Fountain Six Search Engine.
• The Adipose were computer generated creations, although a woolly one was used on set!

Further information

• The subscription offer is revised for this issue with a saving of over £30 (UK) and a free Doctor Who audio book The Feast of the Drowned (worth £9.99 (UK)).
• Also included in this issue is a 2-page readers survey for a chance to win a Character Options 5" action figure set, Voyage of the Damned.

A question regarding the number of Doctor’s companions is answered by stating that we don’t see all the Doctor’s adventures. This answer neatly includes the audio adventures and other fiction.

• This issue and its free gifts were cover mounted.
• Next issue's free gifts are listed as a Sontaran Stationery set.

External link

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