DWA 39

DWA 39
Cover date:	27 September - 10 October 2007
Format:	36 full colour pages stapled
Editor:	Moray Laing
Publisher:	BBC Magazines
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The thirty-ninth issue of Doctor Who Adventures had a cover date of 27 September - 10 October 2007.

Contents

Free gift

• TARDIS themed stationery set: notepad, ruler, pencil and eraser.

Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

• Inside the TARDIS

Comic content

• Shipwreck! (Part Two) (6 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

• From: TV: Utopia - Featuring: Captain Jack Harkness grabbing a ride on the TARDIS.

The Doctor's Data (Collectable Fact File)

• File 35: The Beast

Adventure Guide / Doctor Who Confidential

(Including readers views and behind the scenes)

• TV: The Family of Blood

Posters

• A3 "Untitled" featuring the TARDIS
• A4 "Now they're just BEASTS!" The Doctor in TV: Gridlock - montage featuring Macra.
• A4 "I am NOT the DOCTOR!" The Doctor in TV: The Family of Blood - montage featuring John Smith and the Scarecrow.

Additional features

• Welcome (including latest news/ preview teaser)
• The Vortex (Who News)

Humour: Things to do with a defeated enemy Use the Daughter of Mine to give fashion tips to innocent shoppers! (By Christopher Cooper)

Find in this issue hidden somewhere Sarah Jane Smith's Watch to win a Doctor Who Shaker Maker!

• Time Agent Upload

featuring reader's letters, photos, and art.

• Top five reasons for loving the TARDIS
• Quiz: The TARDIS
• Puzzle Pages
• Who Knows (Questions and Answers)
• Competition Goodies: Doctor Who Fun books, LEGO and Ratatouille goodies.
• Win a life-size Dalek (Token collect. Bonus token in this issue)

Credits

• Also listing: favourite bits from Last of the Time Lords
• Editor: Moray Laing, The Titanic crashing in!
• Art Editor: Paul Lang, Martha travelling the world
• Senior Writer: Annabel Gibson, Jack/Boe Reveal
• Picture Editor: Shaila Bux , The Doctor forgiving the Master
• Production Editor: Ed Lomas, The old Doctor in a cage
• Editorial Assistant: Olivia McLearon, Martha's goodbye
• Master Plan: Lucy Saxon, The Master's goodbye...

Hidden Away / Facts

• This magazine can be recycled: "Or store it away nicely in your TARDIS attic next to the Carrionites ..."
• Frau Clovis: "The Duke of Manhattan is most disappointed that the Doctor didn't visit him in Gridlock..."
• TARDIS stands for Time and Relative Dimension in Space.
• Sarah Jane Smith lives in Bannerman Road, Ealing, West London.
• The Fourth Doctor dropped off Sarah Jane Smith in Aberdeen, not Croydon, when she first left him.
• The Beast was imprisoned on Krop Tor by the Disciples of the Light before the creation of the universe.
• Forty gallons of petrol were used to explode the Family of Blood's invisible spaceship.
• In the original novel of Human Nature, the Doctor's Time Lord self was hidden in a cricket ball.
• In The Time Warrior, Sarah Jane Smith is a journalist who poses as her Aunt Lavinia so that she could find out about some top secret scientific research.
• The planet Gallifrey was situated in the constellation named Kasterborus.

Additional details

• Published every two weeks on a Thursday, this issue had a cover price of £2.10 (UK).
• This issue included eight extra pages devoted to the new The Sarah Jane Adventures. It included a 'Who is Sarah Jane' feature, an A3 poster of the regular cast being menaced by a Slitheen, an introduction to the team feature and a preview guide to the first seasons five stories.
• The readers vote on favourite episode in Season 2 was the Last of the Time Lords (28%), Blink (24%) and The Sound of Drums (8%).
• The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of over £9 (UK). No other incentive is offered.
• This issue's free gift was selotaped to the cover.
• Next issue's free gift is given as Dalek slime and a yucky mutant brain!

External links

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