Thunderbirds Annual 1971

After the poor sales of the Thunderbirds/Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons annual of 1970, City Magazines published the Thunderbirds 1971 annual the following year.

The annual in fact still had Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons stories as well as other non Anderson contents including football, and a cartoon strip based on Department S.

At the end of the novel "The Crab", Thunderbird 4 was featured with black and white cut-away, this in fact was a reprint that had previously been seen in the 1967 annual.

Features[]

Note: Only Thunderbirds related features are listed below:

Menace of the Warlord (comic)
The Thunderboys (Feature on the Tracy family)
Zero X - The Switch (comic)
The Crab (Novel)
Funderbirds (Funny cartoons)
Freight-Load of Fear! (comic)

Additional Info[]

Country of Publ.: United Kingdom
Dimensions: 265mm x 210mm
Format: Hardback
Illustrator: Eric Eden
Pagination: 94 pages
Publ. Date: Late 1970
Publisher: City Magazines Ltd (UK)
Distributor: City Magazines
SBN: 7235 0092 4
Retail Price: 12/6 (Twelve shillings and six pence) or 62 New Pence.

Cutaway Drawing[]

Trivia[]

This is the first Thunderbirds annual that had the date printed on the cover, and confirmed that the copyright date is the same. Unlike tradition, the 1971 annual should of had a copyright date of 1970, as annuals are always released in time for the Christmas sales.