"Blackmail for Power" is an eight page comic story, first published in the 1967 Thunderbirds annual. As is usual for stories published in the annuals, no writer or illustrator is credited.
Plot[]
Crooks steal a weather research station's lighting machine, then demand a thousand million dollars ransom money.
Characters[]
(in order of appearance)
- Senior officer
- Weather guards
- Professor Morgan Phillips
- Glade
- Scott Tracy
- Jeff Tracy
- Brains
- John Tracy
- Sun Set Mine officials
- World President
- Steve Zodiac (cameo)
- Zero
- Alan Tracy
- Gordon Tracy
IR Equipment Used[]
Trivia[]
- Appearing alongside Commander Zero is Steve Zodiac and an unknown W.A.S.P. member (who bears a resemblance to Sam Shore, albeit capable of standing), characters from the previous AP Films productions Fireball XL5 and Stingray, respectively.
- Jeff takes Thunderbird 3 out on his own, in a rare outing for the usually desk-bound patriarch.