DWA 12

DWA 12
Cover date:	7 September - 18 September 2006
Format:	36 full colour pages stapled
Editor:	Moray Laing
Publisher:	BBC Magazines
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The 12th issue of the BBC's fortnightly Doctor Who Adventures.

Contents

Free gift

• Two Doctor Who pencils and 4 alien rubbers

Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

• Regeneration (The Story of Doctor Who)
• Ultimate Gadgets (Guide to Gadgets from Series one and two)

Comic story

• The Battle of Reading Gaol (Part Two of Two) (6 pages)

Tales from the TARDIS

• From: (DW): The Age of Steel

The escape from Lumic’s factory

Monster A-Z

• D is for Daleks

The Doctor’s Data (Collectable Fact File)

• File 11: Gelth

Adventure guide and behind the scenes feature

• (DW): Love & Monsters

Posters

• A3 “they’re just so … ALIEN!“ Rose Tyler in (DW): The End of the World
  montage featuring various Season 1 monsters
• A4 “It’s like you go looking for TROUBLE!“ Jackie Tyler in (DW): The Christmas Invasion
  featuring Rose Tyler and Jackie Tyler
• A4 Untitled
  featuring the Doctor and Martha Jones

Additional features

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

Find in this issue hidden somewhere Yvonne Hartman's sunglasses to win a Doctor Who TARDIS clock!

• TARDIS Inbox

Featuring readers letters, photos and readers art

• Fun Stuff

Illustrated school scene to find and locate fluid links. (2 pages)

• Make It

Cut out and make Krillitane mask

• Puzzle Pages / Fun stuff

Humour: ‘Things to do with a defeated enemy’ The Daleks and Cybermen host their own reality show “I’m a Cyborg – Let me Invade Here!” (by Christopher Cooper)

• Competition Goodies: Doctor Who DVD, Doctor Who Shaker Makers, Captain Scarlett sets and Dare Devil Stunt sets.

Credits

Also featuring favourite Doctor Who gadget.
Assistant Editor: Moray Laing, K9
Senior Designer: Paul Lang, The Doctor’s mallet
Senior Writer: Annabel Gibson, Capt Jack’s sonic blaster
Picture Editor: Shaila Bux, The Sonic Screwdriver
Production Editor: Ed Lomas, 3-D glasses
Editorial Assistant: Olivia McLearon, The TARDIS
Miss Hartman’s Sunglasses by Torchwood Frames

Hidden Away / Facts

Mini-motto 5: “That’s why I keep travelling – to be proved wrong ….”
This magazine can be recycled: “It’s the end … ”
Frau Clovis: “The Duke of Manhattan is suffering from sunburn after his recent holiday. He’ll be back with us soon …”

• If you watch The Unquiet Dead carefully you will see at least one Gelth flee into a gas pipe!
• When the Time Lords were alive they could have 12 regenerations, meaning 13 different bodies.
• The pork chop eating monster that appeared in Love & Monsters was originally to be unnamed but was later called the Hoix.
• Russell T Davies contributed to a children’s television magazine series “Why Don’t You … ?” that also featured LINDA (Liverpool Investigation `N` Detective Agency”).
• The Blue Peter Design-a-Monster competition (resulting in the Abzorbaloff), received 43,920 entries

Additional details

• Published every two weeks on a Thursday, this issue had a cover price of £1.99 (UK).
• The comic strip in this issue was the first two-part story to be published by DWA and each part had a separate title.
• The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of over £6 (UK). No other incentive is offered.
• This issue's free gift was selotaped to the cover.
• Next issue's two free gifts are named as a creepy Cassandra notebook plus stickers.

External link

• [1] the official BBC magazine site with cover gallery and news of the latest available issue.