Why Don't Reynolds & Hearn Ltd Publish Fleetaway Thunderbird Comics?

[Captain Indigo]

With the latest success of the TV21 Comics being reprinted by Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, why don't they (or some other publishing company) publish the Thunderbird Comic Stories that we're made after Fleetaway Comics ran out of TV21 Comics to reprint?

I would certainly buy that. Mainly because there’s a lot more demand for them because they are harder to get hold of after issue 30 (once they stop doing comic adaptation).

What do you think?

[Hiram K Hackenbacker]

Well you can obtain quite a few Fleetway's on ebay for dirt cheap if you keep an eye out. I myself bagged the entire set of 89 Fleetway's (minus issues 19 and 57 and plus one special issue) about a month ago for the paltry sum of about £39 (all in excellent condition too).

[Chrisof]

I would love them to. Especially in thunderbirds the newer scripts where so much more in the spirit of the original. :)

[air terrainean]

Doesn't look as if Reynolds and Hearn will be doing anything further, as they seem to have closed down. Their publishing list now appears to have been taken over by Titan, who have been reprinting the Dan Dare strips from Eagle, so hopefully they might do something to continue the Century 21 books.

One of the best new Fleetway strips IMO was 'Disasters Unlimited', which was a pretty good story in the tradition of the original series. Wasn't too keen on the artist's version of Fab One, but his Hood was excellent.

[saturnapollo]

Amazon are still advertising the annual and Vol 5. You would have thought if the annual had been scheduled for 31 August it would actually have been printed by the time they went into liquidation.

Keith

[air terrainean]

I hope that might be the case - I'd certainly like to see the UFO strips rereleased. Some kind of official confirmation from Titan would be welcome. Any one else heard anything ?

[roose1982]

Amazon are still advertising the annual and Vol 5. You would have thought if the annual had been scheduled for 31 August it would actually have been printed by the time they went into liquidation.

Keith

I got an email from Amazon to inform me the Annual had been delayed... which probably isnt a good sign.

[Simon Morris]

Chris Bentley has posted a note on the 'old' Fanderson members-only Yahoo Group about this matter. Offhand, I haven't seen it in this forum so I thought it might be appropriate to repost the note here:



"After the news broke in June of the liquidation of Reynolds and Hearn, I
didn't think anyone would seriously still be expecting the Century 21 Annual
to be published in August. But since it's a topic that's come up on the club
forum, I thought that perhaps I'd better address it.

At the point at which the company went into liquidation, everything they
currently had scheduled was cancelled. That included the Century 21 Annual
and Volume 5 of the strip reprints. Work on both titles had progressed no
further than planning the contents: we were due to start work on the annual
in June and Volume 5 soon after but that did not happen. To date, no strip
restoration has taken place on those titles, no pages have been laid out, no
supplementary material has been written, and neither book has been printed.

As it stands at the moment, the future of the Century 21 books is uncertain
but promising. Titan Books did indeed purchase the Reynolds and Hearn list,
but this did not actually include any of the Gerry Anderson titles as the
rights on those books were reclaimed by their respective authors prior to
the sale of the list. The rights to publish the Century 21 books have
instead been signed to a new imprint, Signum Books, who are now in
negotiation with printers and distributors with a view to relaunching the
Century 21 books some time in 2011.

So despite what the listings on Amazon might still say, neither the Century
21 Annual nor Century 21: Classic Comic Strips Volume 5 will be published
this year.

Chris"

[saturnapollo]

Thanks for posting that.

The annual was never going to be published at the end of August going by that. Never understand why publishers set such unrealistic dates when it is obvious next to no work has been done on it.

Let's just hope another publisher picks up the baton.

Keith

[sliuman]

I like to say thanks as well. However, I'm now out 60 quid because I bought Volumes 3 and 4 direct from the RH Books website in May and have only just read about the buyout. (I'd been wondering why I had received nothing.)

Does anyone know how I can recoup my money?

If this is the wrong spot for this question, I'll start another thread.


Thanks

Steve