As Fireball XL5’s 60th anniversary gets nearer, more details have been announced regarding the upcoming comic anthology celebrating the show’s full colour life within the pages of the TV Century 21 comic! The Fireball XL5 60th Anniversary Comic Anthology is a 336-page hardback volume collecting every Fireball XL5 comic strip story from that legendary publication in one place for the …
Hot on the heels of volumes one and two of the UFO comic anthologies, Anderson Entertainment is proud to announce the next collection of classic comic reprints – Fireball XL5! Released at the end of October 2022 in celebration of the show’s 60th anniversary, this 330-page hardback volume will collect every Fireball XL5 comic strip from the pages of TV …
Building on the success of their growing audio book and audio drama range, Anderson Entertainment is pleased to unveil a new range of TV Century 21 Audio Annuals starting with Anything Can Happen in July 2022. Narrated by Wayne Forester (New Captain Scarlet,Thunderbirds) and Nicholas Briggs (Doctor Who, the voice of the Daleks), these new Audio Annuals bring back classic …
The first scene of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons is also one of the show’s most memorable, showing the Zero-X MEV under the command of Spectrum’s Captain Black discovering the Mysteron city and subsequently destroying it after mistaking a scanning device for a weapon. This launches the war between the Earth and Mars, and is also the moment where Captain …
During the peak of TV21, Captain Scarlet’s Spectrum Shades club was so popular that the country had to be divided into regions, each being led by a different Spectrum Captain. One area had so many membership applications that TV21 decided to run a story on why they were slow to deal with them, with a fairly grim twist…
Hot on the heels of the collapse of the Gerry Anderson Comics Collection partwork came Egmont with Thunderbirds – The Comic Collection, a hardback volume of strips released in 2013 as part of their Classic Comics range. Sixteen Thunderbirds stories from the pages of TV21 representing an almost complete chronological run from late 1967 to early 1970 (albeit with six …
Partworks are a curious beast of the publishing world. We’ve all seen the commercials; “build your own model of the Isle of Wight ferry, complete in 150 issues – issue 1 just £1.99! (Regular price £7.99).” Either that or you’re being encouraged to buy a television series episode by episode for ultimately five times the price you’d pay for the …
TV Century 21 (later just TV21) was first published in 1965 and quickly became one of the most successful British comics of all time, achieving record sales that remain unbroken to this day. One of the reasons for this success was in no small part down to an ingenious idea that reportedly came from Gerry Anderson himself; that of presenting …
Anything went in the TV21 comic stories of the Anderverse, and Fireball XL5 was no exception. As discussed in this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast, the fate of the craft was finally revealed in a TV21 text story in which the great ship met its demise, and it seems a beloved crew member may have been aboard too…
by A21 Reporter Andy Clems The brave crew of the Zero-X are preparing to undertake a mysterious mission on the direct orders of the World President. Although details are sparse at present, it is understood that the assignment requires the Zero-X to be launched within the next 48 hours and the duration of the flight is thought to be around …
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