Captain Scarlet Annual

by **Watersarus** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 8:12 am

First things first, a quick introduction. Hi, I'm watersarus and I'm new here. Captain Black is my favourite character ect,ect.

Now onto the main point of this post. Yesterday I went to a comic book store with my sister on our monthly comic collection, where (as the name suggests) we go and get comics and look for other merchandise concerning our fandoms. While I was there, I thought I would look for any captain scarlet stuff. I turn around, and I see this staring back at me.

Looking at the publication date on the back of the book, it's the 1993 annual, so that's good. I also found a Jeff Tracy drink coaster, so I brought that as weel. :grin:

Let you guys know if I mind anything else!

by **Elentari** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 9:17 am

Got to love the annuals!

My favourite is the 1967 Captain Scarlet annual with the biographies of all the characters. If I could have taken that annual to school every day I would have. (I settled for taking the TV21 Thunderbirds are Go movie booklet to school instead....it was a lot lighter to carry).

It was only some time later that it occurred to me that the staffers who wrote those biographies were either slightly crazy or possibly a little drunk at the time. That's the only reason I can come up with, for a bio that describes Captain Scarlet as 'fun loving' (which frankly I found hard to imagine even before he was mysteronised), and the fact that Dr Fawn comes from a city/town/suburb (take your pick) that doesn't exist. There is however a very good winery by that name....!

Sadly, we will probably never know the truth. :lol:

by **Watersarus** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 10:48 am

That's true, but that's what we have fan fiction for XD

by **Marion** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 7:32 pm

Never mind non-existent suburbs, every Angel was a prodigy! As soon as they were out of nappies they were training to be spies, pilots, lawyers, racing-car drivers and the like. Odd how, at the time I first discovered this amazing fact, it never occurred to be that it was a load of tosh...but I was very young at the time (well, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.) :wink:

The 1994 Annual isn't as good as the 1993 - they even get Captain Scarlet and Captain Magenta mixed up in the illustrations. I guess the interest generated by the re-runs was going off the boil by then? I had trouble finding the book - it turned up eventually on a Market Stall and I swooped on it... :grin:

by **Watersarus** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 7:34 am

That's true. Hey, it's a mostly a matter of if you find merch of said tv show, it's best to get it before someone else does!

by **Carrie** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:32 pm

I can't agree more - we owe it to the characters, and ourselves, to give them a good home.... ((()))

All my youthful CS memorabilia suffered a process of attrition back further than I care to remember, but, since meeting the wonderful friends of SHQ they have replenished my bookshelves with every known book/comic/novel and I have spent the last ten happy years re-acquainting myself with my beloved childhood heroes and heroines.
Thank you friends! (hugs)

by **Watersarus** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 8:39 pm

Again, very true. I'm relatively new to the captain scarlet fandom (being born at the end of the 90's and vaguely remembering watching reruns of Thunderbirds when they were shown), only being introduced to it through my father (who got me into likeing science fiction and is a minefield of information on various science fiction shows from the 60's and so on) and the 2005 series of captain scarlet. I was introduced to the thunderbirds through the 2004 movie (don't hate me for it but I kinda liked that movie .-.) and whenever I had to go to the hospital for a check up, amongst the various other childrens books they had novelisations of some of the thunderbirds episodes, and I would always drag them out of the box and get my dad to read them to me.

I am currently watching Joe 90 on YouTube, and that's fun.