DWA 263
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Doctor Who Adventures #263 was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 5 April 2012
Contents
Free gift
- Nine piece stationery set (including giant clip, pencil, pen, eraser, Dalek notepad, ruler and three monster bands)
Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)
- FACTFILE: All the Strange, strange creatures
- FACTFILE: River Song’s Diary: Episode 11 The God Complex and Episode 12 Closing Time
- FACTFILE: Disasterous Monster Plans
- Matt Smith’s EPISODE GUIDE 9: Night Terrors
Comic strips
Mega Moments (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)
- None this issue.
Fast Facts (Collectable Fact Files)
- FACTFILE: Regeneration – The Seventh Doctor
Posters
- A3 BACKSTAGE: Arthur Darvill, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan
- A4 Madam Vastra
- A4 ULTIMATE DALEK Special Weapons Dalek
Behind the scenes
- Captioned behind the scenes pictures.
Interview
- None this issue
Also featuring
- Welcome and news (“Hello Time Travellers!”)
- Geronimo: News, Joke, Hot or Not,
- Big Puzzle: Giant Wordsearch (2 pages)
- Puzzle page and Quiz
- Jokes
- Readers contributions: Who and You Upload
featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art. - Doctor, Doctor! (Q&A)
- Competition Goodies (Lego Technic sets, Pokepark2 wii game set)
Main team credits
With their weirdest monsters
- Editor: Natalie Barnes The Cheetah People – I met some on holiday recently
- Deputy Editor: Paul Laing The Empress of the Racnoss – although she was just being herself!
- Production Editor: Liza Millett The Carrionites – they like spelling almost as much as I do!
- Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies Adipose – you never get rid of fat that easily!
- Deputy Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter Cybermen. I played one once, you know!
Hidden Away / Facts
- WHO SAID: “You will experience a tingling sensation and then death.”
An Antibody in Let's Kill Hitler.
- Twenty-five year old actress Jenna-Louise Coleman is announced as the Eleventh Doctor’s next travelling companion after Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) and Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams) leave the series.
- Bedtime stories on Gallifrey included The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes and Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday (according to the Doctor in Night Terrors).
- Night Terrors was also the title of a short story in the Doctor Who The Official Annual 2012 about the old Time Lord ruler Rassilon.
- ‘Petrichor’ means “the smell of dust after rain”.
- The Seventh Doctors last words were “I’ve got to stop him!”
Further information
- The subscription offer for this issue was four issues for £1, then a saving of 10% (thirteen issues for £29.25) (UK).
- This issue had a new regular cover price of £2.60 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted.
- Next issue's free gift is promoted as one of two giant notebooks with 3D covers (TARDIS or Silence)
