The Complete Thunderbirds Story

The Complete Thunderbirds Story was told over 45 issues of the Thunderbirds comic.

Published by Fleetway Editions Ltd, on 6th February 1993 (comic No.35) and ran consecutively for 45 weeks, the final part was issues in comic No:79 on October 28th 1994.

Part 1: Towards the Future

How Jeff Tracy's dream of International Rescue became a reality.

Freedom Shuttle Orbiter- code-named Ultra lifts off from Kennedy Space Centre, Cape Canaveral. Coupled to its booster rockets and fuel tank, the reusable space vehicle is on its way to the space station Freedom on fixed orbit around the earth. Six astronauts are due to relieve the current crew of Freedom. Colonel Jeff Tracy has a special mission.

For the past three years, Tracy has been working on experiments connected with the design and development of launch vehicles that can take mankind beyond the moon. New forms of propulsion are also one of Jeff's keen studies.

Part 2: Good News!

Colonel Jeff Tracy experienced World Space Administration astronaut, is on Freedom the multi-nation space station. Jeff is ready to leave the service to set up his construction and aerospace industries....

Part 3: Back to the Farm

After eighteen missions in space, Colonel Jeff Tracy is due to retire from the World Space Agency and set up his construction and aeronautics businesses. The Orbiter Satellite Ultra returns to earth...

Part 4: Simulation and Solitary!

Colonel Jeff Tracy has been selected to lead a commemorative flight to the moon to mark the arrival of the 21st Century. The mission, with three other astronauts, will include a survey of a site chosen for F.L.O (First Lunar Outpost)…

Part 5: Demanding Schedule

Jeff Tracy has been chosen to head up a mission that will take him to the Moon. His schedule is demanding.

Part 6: Hostility

Chosen to head up a mission that will take him to the moon, Jeff Tracy has met the rest of the team that is due to land on the moon in the year 2000. Rigorous tests have to be carried out to prepare the team for the great adventure...

Pert 7: Personality Problem!

Given command of a mission to set up a Moonbase, Jeff Tracy and his crew are in serious training. As they fly in Aurora, a supersonic aircraft, Jeff's pilot suddenly puts the plane into a steep dive...

Part 8: Space Walk!

Jeff has been selected to head a team of astronauts whose mission is to survey a site for a Moonbase. Intensive training and testing of the mission's spacecraft and other hardware demand close work with his crew. After a trial flight with pilot Major Larry Houptman, Jeff returns home for a well-earned break...

Part 9: Crash Dive

Chosen to command a survey mission to the Moon, Colonel Jeff Tracy and his fellow astronauts are introduced to a hard training programme. The final stages are reached and Travy has a quiet word with the Project Controller, Luke Davis...

Part 10: Abandoned!

Chosen to lead a mission to the moon Colonel Jeff Tracy is on a training flight with pilot Major Larry Hauptman and other crew members. The machine they are flying in the Aero Space Plane- ASP. Hauptman suddenly announces the ship is out of control...

Part 11: Alone to Explore!

Jeff Tracy on a training flight is ejected from the Aero Space Plane - ASP. He manages to reach a deserted island and starts to make good use of the survival raft and provisions...

Part 12: Answers!

It appears Jeff Tracy has been abandoned when he is forced to eject from the ASP, a space plane. He manages to reach a deserted island, and after surviving for ten weeks, a US Navy submarine picks him up. Jeff is transferred to Aircraft Carrier Safeguard...

Part 13: Moon Explorer is Go!

Soon after the birth of his second son Virgil, Jeff Tracy resumes training for the mission which plans to land a surveying party on the moon.

As part of the Mission Commander conditioning, Pilot Major Larry Hauptman had appeared to be hostile toward Jeff - even forcing him to eject from a space plane...

Part 14: Moon Landing!

Heading up a mission to survey the Moon for a planned scientific base, Colonel Jeff Tracy and his crew reach Freedom Space Station in the air-space plane (ESP)...

Part 15: The Family Grows

With a team of astronauts, Jeff Tracy has commemorated the beginning of the 21st century with a Moon landing. After surveying the site for a future lunar base, Jeff returns to Earth, his mind directed towards the building of his businesses and scientific progress.

During the following five years, the Tracy family increases as Jeff and Lucille have three more sons. Each of the boys develop their own interests and careers, while Jeff's corporations become legendary successes all around the world.

Part 16: Scott Tracy - Towards Manhood, Part 17: Virgil Tracy The Early Years

Part 18: Alan Tracy - Dare Devil!, Part 19: Gordon Tracy - Champion of Inner Space!

Part 20: John Tracy - Stargazer, Part 21: Brains - A Touch of Genius!

Part 22: Death in the Family!

For the fist time, Jeff Tracy talks about the enormous tragedy that hit his family a year before he decided to set up International Rescue.

Part 23: Breakdown!

Jeff Tracy reached the peek of his career, and his five sons were shaping up well to manhood. All was good for the Tracy Family. Then tragedy struck - Jeff's wife Lucille and his father were killed in an avalanche!

Part 24: Crash-Down

After the tragic death of his wife and father, Jeff Tracy climbs aboard his new jet and takes off...

Part 25: Jungle Terror

Close to a mental breakdown after the death of his wife and father, Jeff Tracy takes off in his new jet plane..

Jeff's island arrives...and he overshoots...!

Then the fuel runs out.. Landfall..! IMPACT!

Part 26: A New Friend

Grief-stricken after the death of his wife and father, Jeff Tracy collapses during a jet-plane flight. As his aircraft crashes, Jeff is ejected and ends up suspended in a jungle..

Part 27: Fever and Fear

After the death of his wife and father, Jeff has a mental breakdown and crashes his new aircraft. Twelve thousand miles from home, he lies unconscious in a hostile jungle. But help is about to arrive..

Part 28: A Doctor Arrives!

Suffering a nervous breakdown, Jeff Tracy crashes his new aircraft in a jungle miles from home. He is found by a kindly man named Kyrano, but Kyrano is held in a strange power by his sinister half-brother...

Part 29: The Search Begins

After crashing his plane on the edge of a Malaysian jungle, Jeff Tracy is rescued by Kyrano and taken to a remote village...

Part 30: The Resolution!

Recovering from a nervous breakdown, Jeff Tracy is being cared for in a Malaysian village. One day, off shore, a ferry ship blows up.

Part 31: "Come and Rescue Me!"

After watching helplessly as a ferry ship sinks off the Malaysian coast. Jeff Tracy vows to set up a rescue organisation. He is recovering from a nervous breakdown, and now his memory is restored...

Part 32: "The Island Revisited!"

After crashing his aircraft in Malaysia, Jeff Tracy has made a slow recovery, with his memory restored, he is now ready to return to his family and work. But there is a new ambition burning in his thoughts..

Part 33: "The Cavern!"

Jeff Tracy has decided to set up an international rescue organisation. Scott and Alan join their father to survey a possible headquarters site - a remote island in the Pacific Ocean. Suddenly the rocks beneath Alan give way...

Part 34: "Recruitment!"

Jeff Tracy has decided to set up a rescue organisation. He takes Scott and Alan to his special island where they begin a survey. Alan fall through the weak part of a cavern roof... and Jeff discovers a natural hangar.

Part 35: "It Will Never Work!"

The first steps of setting up International Rescue have been taken. Now Jeff needs one more recruit, to make his dream become a reality.

Part 36: "Don't Touch Anything!"

International Rescue has been formed and the first of the rescue craft, code named Tracy 1, embarks on a test flight. A storm breaks and the rocket is struck by lighting.

Part 37: "Excavations"

International Rescue has been formed and work is in progress to build the machines and base, Jeff Tracy and his sons will need to be ready to help in times of disaster and danger. The Tracy Corporation production lines are given over to assembly of the hardware.

Part 38: "The Birds Fly Home!"

International Rescue has been formed, Thunderbird 1 and 2 have been constructed and test flown. Thunderbird 3 is nearing completion.

Part 39: "Chaos and Danger!"

Thunderbirds 1 and 2 have arrived at Tracy Island, home of the new organisation International Rescue. Jeff Tracy gives his sons, Scott and Virgil, a tour of the facilities...

Part 40:"Bad News and Good News!"

International Rescue has been established and the newly built Thunderbirds 2 and 4 are involved in tests. Danger threatens when Thunderbird 4's buoyancy tanks fail... and Thunderbird 2 loses a Pod.

Part 41: "Space Launch!"

After some initial problems the newly formed International Rescue organisation has commissioned three of the incredible machines it needs to carry out its work. The Tracy Corporation has been given permission to build a space station, and a space vehicle nears completion.

Part 42: "Bird in Space"

The Tracy Corporation has been given permission to build a satellite in space. Jeff Tracy's group of companies is one of the foremost suppliers of space hardware to governments and industries throughout the world. But the new space station is special. It will become the main communications intelligence for International Rescue.

Part 43: "Very Important People"

Tracy Aerospace of Jeff's giant industrial organisation, has supplied components for the new Fireflash airliner, soon to go into service on Air Terrainean's route from London to Tokyo. Jeff and Brains are amongst the invited guests on one of the new aircraft's around the world proving flights.

Part 44: The First Mission

The final pieces in the complex jigsaw puzzle that has made International Rescue possible have been put in place. The Thunderbirds machines are fully operational and the key personnel, headed by Jeff Tracy are ready for action.

Part 45: The First Mission (2)

International Rescue embarked on its first mission... to save the new Fireflash airliner from certain destruction.