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Doctor Who Adventures #255 was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 9 January 2012
Contents
Free gift
Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)
- FEATURE: Monsters most embarrassing moments!
- Matt Smith’s EPISODE GUIDE 1: The Impossible Astronaut
Comic strips
Photo Story (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)
- TIME LINE: Silurian
Fast Facts (Collectable Fact Files)
- A4 ULTIMATE DALEK Dalek Sec Hybrid
Posters
Behind the scenes
- Backstage secrets of the best bedroom in the world from The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.
Interview
- None this issue
Also featuring
- Welcome and news (“Hello Time Travellers!”)
- Geronimo: Gossip: News, Hot or not,
- Big Puzzle: Giant Wordsearch (2 pages)
- Puzzle page and Quiz
- FUN STUFF: Monster Dates
- Readers contributions: Who and You Upload
featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art. - Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
- COMPETITION: Design a gadget for the Doctor that will be used in a future comic strip.
- Competition Goodies (Character Building Dalek Factory Set )
Main team credits
With their monster Valentine dates
- Editor: Natalie Barnes A Silent – they look so good in a suit
- Deputy Editor: Paul Laing A Handbot – as it has no mouth, I’d eat its dinner too!
- Production Editor: Liza Millett The Minotaur – I like a monster with a healthy appetite
- Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies A Hath – they have an endless supply of ‘bubbly’
- Deputy Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter A Silurian – I love lizards!
Hidden Away / Facts
- WHO SAID: “Well? I’m not going to hug first…!”
- A new PS3 and PS Vita computer game is released in March 2012 called The Eternity Clock.
- Former Doctor Who and SJA boss Russell T Davies has written a new series for CBBC called ‘Aliens and Wizards.’
- The Impossible Astronaut was originally to be called ‘The Year of the Moon.’
- In 1881, Vastra battled and ate mummies (The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2011).
- The Eleventh Doctor found his greatest fear in Room 11 in the The God Complex
- Script details for the bedroom featured in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe written by Steven Moffat, included a long list of 17 things – missing seem to include a foot spa, game of Cluedo and a yellow fort (but they could be hidden away)
Further information
- The subscription offer for this issue was 4 issues for £1 then a saving of 10% (13 issues for £29.25) (UK).
- This issue had a cover price of £2.50 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted.
- Next issue's free gift is promoted as a Silence document folder, sketch pad and pencils