DWA 255
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Doctor Who Adventures #255 was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 9 February 2012.
Contents[[edit] | [edit source]]
Free gift[[edit] | [edit source]]
Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)[[edit] | [edit source]]
- FEATURE: Monsters most embarrassing moments!
- Matt Smith's EPISODE GUIDE 1: The Impossible Astronaut
Comic content[[edit] | [edit source]]
Photo Story (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)[[edit] | [edit source]]
- TIME LINE: Silurian
Fast Facts[[edit] | [edit source]]
- A4 ULTIMATE DALEK Dalek Sec Hybrid
Posters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Backstage secrets of the best bedroom in the world from The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.
Interview[[edit] | [edit source]]
- None this issue
Also featuring[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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 )
Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]
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[[edit] | [edit source]]
- WHO SAID: "Well? I'm not going to hug first...!" Amy Pond in the The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.
- A new PS3 and PS Vita computer game is released in March 2012 called The Eternity Clock.
- Former[nb 1] Doctor Who and SJA boss Russell T Davies has written a new series for CBBC called Aliens and Wizards.[nb 2]
- 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 seventeen things – missing seem to include a foot spa, game of Cluedo and a yellow fort (but they could be hidden away).
Further information[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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 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.
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ Russell T Davies returned as the head writer of Doctor Who in 2023, after DWA ceased publication
- ↑ Evidently the working title of Wizards vs. Aliens, although Davies himself was not credited as a writer until parts one and two of All Out War at the end of the second series
