DWA 253

Doctor Who Adventures # was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 26 January 2012.
== Contents ==
=== Free gift ===
* Sonic set and badge
=== Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info) ===
* 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 ===
* The Star Serpent
* AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters)
=== Photo Story (favourite scene told as a photo-feature) ===
* The Amazing Deaths of Rory Williams
=== Fast Facts ===
* see ULTIMATE DALEK collection below
=== Posters ===
: A3 The Doctor's Wife
: A4 Silence
: A4 ULTIMATE DALEK Ironside
=== Behind the scenes ===
* Making up Mark Gatiss to play Gantok.
=== Interview ===
* Matt Smith and Steven Moffat reveal show secrets
=== Also featuring ===
* 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 ==
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 ==
* 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 ==
* 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.
== External links ==
* The official magazine site with features and news of the latest available issue
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