"Operation Earthquake" is a comic-strip story originally published in TV Century 21 issues 118 to 124, 22nd April to 3rd June 2067. It was written by Alan Fennell, and illustrated by Frank Bellamy.
Synopsis[]
An earthquake devastates Moscow and International Rescue join forces with the emergency services to look for survivors. Brains starts to doubt that the earthquake was a natural disaster, and his underground investigations in the Mole lead him to an alarming discovery...
Characters[]
(in order of appearance)
- Scott Tracy
- Virgil Tracy
- Gordon Tracy
- Tin-Tin Kyrano
- Jeff Tracy
- Brains
- John Tracy
- Alan Tracy
- Thieves
International Rescue Equipment Used[]
Reprint History[]
The story was translated into Dutch and printed in TV2000, between its issues numbered 41/1967 and 47/1967.
For an English-speaking audience, it would later show up from issues 7 to 9 of Thunderbirds: The Comic.
Cover Tie-Ins[]
Issue 120
Issue 121
Issue 122
Issue 124
Trivia[]
- Making a rare appearance in the TV21 run of comics is Tin-Tin, who helps out during the first earthquake rescue in Moscow - although she is never identified by name.
- The original Mole is destroyed in the story's climax. Brains says it's possible to build another one, but it will take a couple of months. Despite this, the Mole would show up again in the very next story.
- International Rescue would come up against another group triggering unnatural earthquakes just a few stories later, in The Earthquake Maker.