"The Hood Makes a Strike" is an eight-page Thunderbirds comic strip story, first published in Thunderbirds Annual 1967. No writer or illustrator is credited, in line with the other stories in the annual.
Synopsis[]
A man is trapped inside a mine, and while International Rescue on at the scene, the Hood attacks in a stolen fighter aircraft.
Characters[]
(in order of appearance)
- Charlie Dene
- Cooper Jones
- John Tracy
- Jeff Tracy
- Scott Tracy
- Virgil Tracy
- Kyrano
- The Hood
- Airforce base guard
IR Equipment Used[]
- Thunderbird 1
- Thunderbird 2 (Pod 2)
- Thunderbird 5
- Excavating machine
Trivia[]
- The Hood specifically uses his talents of disguise to impersonate someone else (in this case, pilot James Munroe), rather than hiding his true likeness. While this would be rare for the villain, Thunderbirds Are Go!'s take on the character would see him frequently in disguise as other people.
- Charlie and Cooper are mining for uranium. Scott questions why, as the world has become so overstocked with the chemical element that it's essentially become worthless.
IMAI's Excavator kit (cover drawn by Shigeru Komatsuzaki)
- The excavating machine in this story - which is visibly not the same one that was seen in Martian Invasion - would later go on to be the subject of at least three different Japanese model kits.
Goofs[]
- Thunderbird 1 is said to have no weapons, despite the aircraft usually being equipped with a machine gun.