DWA 253
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Doctor Who Adventures #253 was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 26 January 2012.
Contents[[edit] | [edit source]]
Free gift[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Sonic set and badge
Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)[[edit] | [edit source]]
- FACTFILE: 10 Things You Might Not Know About: Silence
- FEATURE: Monsters' most embarrassing moments!
- RIVER'S DIARY: Episode 7 A Good Man Goes to War
Comic content[[edit] | [edit source]]
Photo Story (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)[[edit] | [edit source]]
Fast Facts[[edit] | [edit source]]
- see ULTIMATE DALEK collection below
Posters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- A3 The Doctor's Wife
- A4 Silence
- A4 ULTIMATE DALEK Ironside
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Making up Mark Gatiss to play Gantok.
Interview[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Matt Smith and Steven Moffat reveal show secrets
Also featuring[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Welcome and news (Hello Time Travellers!)
- Geronimo: Gossip: News, Hot or not
- Fun Stuff (Celebrity Monster Chef, Who Look-a-likes)
- Puzzle page and Quiz
- Readers contributions: Who and You Upload - featuring reader's letters, photos, and art.
- Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
- Competition Goodies (Character Building Cyberman Set and Character Building Eleven Doctors Set )
Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]
With dishes they'd like to see on Monster Chef
- Editor: Natalie Barnes, Fish fingers and custard
- Deputy Editor: Paul Laing, Ghoul-lash
- Production Editor: Liza Millett, Gangers and mash
- Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies, Key slime pie
- Deputy Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter, Rice cakes
Hidden Away / Facts[[edit] | [edit source]]
- WHO SAID: "At times like this, I think of my old school motto: Resistance is Exhausting." Gibbis in The God Complex.
- River Song's name as she was growing up as a friend of Amy Pond and Rory Williams was Mels Zucker.
- The Silence is NOT an alien species. It is the name of a very powerful religious movement. They are said to experience all of time at once.
- The Silence are also known as Sentinels of History and the Academy of the Question.
- Gantok was credited as Rondo Haxton, a variant of "Rondo Hatton", an old horror movie actor, on whom Mark Gatiss' face was based.
Further information[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The subscription offer for this issue was four issues for £1 then a saving of 10% (three months for £29.29) (UK). A notable reduction of 15%!
- 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 mini monster battle pack featuring the Ood and Judoon.
