TV Century21
Publisher: City Magazines-Century 21 Publications
Publication Dates: 23 January 1965 – December 1967
Number of Issues Published: 154 (#1 – #154)
Color: Colour
Dimensions: Tabloid
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing series
Publication Type: magazine
Information thanks to the Grand Comics Database
TV Century 21, later renamed TV21 (from issue 155), TV21 and Tornado (from issue 192), TV21 and Joe 90 (from issue 243), TV21 (from issue 278) and TV21 and Valiant (from issue 347), was a weekly British children’s comic published by City Magazines during the latter half of the 1960s.
The comic dropped the “Century” from its title in January 1968, after 155 issues, and became known as TV21. The previous year, the character of the “indestructible” Captain Scarlet, the hero of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967 – 68), had made his first appearance. The backstory of the Mysterons, Scarlet’s Martian enemies, was being revealed in TV Tornado, another City Magazines publication. In September 1968, after 192 issues, TV21 merged with TV Tornado to form TV21 and Tornado.
Strips included:
– American “The Adventures of Tarzan” reprints
– Burke’s Law”
– Captain Scarlet”
– Clancy Clott: Magician’s Mate”
– The Daleks”
– Fireball XL5″
– Forward from the Back-Streets”
– I’ve Got a Sports-Mad Dad”
– The Kid King”
– Lady Penelope” (Frank Langford)
– Land of the Giants”
– My Favourite Martian”
– The Saint”
– American “Spider-Man” reprints
– Star Trek”
– Stingray”
– Supercar”
– Tarzan” (from TV Tornado)
– Thunderbirds” (Frank Bellamy)
– The Tuffs of Terror Island”
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1965 1965 1965 1965 1965
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1-16
17-32
33-49
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1966 1966 1966 1966 1966
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50-62
63-75
76-88
89-102
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1967 1967 1967 1967 1967
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103-115
116-128
129-141
142-154
Publisher: City Magazines-Century 21 Publications
Publication Dates: 6 January 1968 – 14 September 1968
Number of Issues Published: 37 (#155 – #191)
Color: Colour Cover
Dimensions: Magazine Size
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing series
Publication Type: magazine
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1968 1968 1968 1968 1968
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Namechange to TV21
155-172
Free Gift 155
173-191
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1968 1968 1968 1968 1968
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Publisher: City Magazines-Century 21 Publications
Publication Dates: 21 September 1968 – 6 September 1969
Number of Issues Published: 51 (#192 – #242)
Color: Colour
Binding: Folded
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
Publication Type: magazine
Some storylines continued in TV21 & Joe 90 (City Magazines; Century 21 Publications, 1969 series) #1.
Namechange to TV21 and TV Tornado
192-206
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1969 1969 1969 1969 1969
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207-218
219-230
231-242
243
Publisher: City Magazines-Century 21 Publications
Publication Dates: 13/27 September 1969 – 30 May 1970
Number of Issues Published: 36 (#1 – #36)
Color: Colour
Publication Type: magazine
Merger of TV21 and TV Tornado (City Magazines; Century 21 Publications, 1969 series) and Joe 90 Top Secret (City Magazines; Century 21 Publications, 1969 series).
Numbering continues with TV21 (City Magazines, 1970 series) #37
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1969 1969 1969 1969 1969
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New Series
TV21 and Joe90
1-14
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1970 1970 1970 1970 1970
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15-25
26-36
Publisher: City Magazines-Century 21 Publications
Publication Dates: 6th June 1970 – 26th June 1971
Number of Issues Published: 56 (#37 – #92)
Color: Colour
Publication Type: magazine
Namechange to TV21
37-51
52-66
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1971 1971 1971 1971 1971
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67-79
80-92
Publisher: IPC
Publication Dates: 3rd July 1971 – 25th September 1971
Number of Issues Published: 13 (#93 – #105)
Color: Colour Cover
Publication Type: magazine
Merged with Valiant and TV21 (IPC, 1971 series).
93-105
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ANNUAL ANNUAL ANNUAL ANNUAL
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TV Century21 Annual 1965
TV Century21 Annual 1966
TV Century21 Annual 1967
TV21 Annual 1969
TV21 Annual 1970
TV21 Annual 1971
TV21 Annual 1972
TV21 Annual 1973
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EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA
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International Extra 1965
Stingray Special 1965
Summer Extra 1965
Thunderbirds Extra 1965
TV21 Summer Extra 1966
TV21 Thunderbirds Are Go! 1966
Spring Extra 1967
British Comics 
Thanks for this great site. I have been reliving my youth thanks to you!
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You are welcome, good to hear. Speaking about reliving a youth, i am working on a blog for music from the sixties, that is a walk down memorylane for me also, perhaps for you too.
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60’s and 70’s would be brill
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Archivos (70 MB total)
TV Action 021 V01N01 [TUBCBG].cbr
TV Century 21 – Thunderbirds Extra [1965] [TUBCBG].cbr
TV Century 21 173 [1968-05-11] [TUBCBG].cbr
TV Century 21 174 [1968-05-18] [TUBCBG].cbr
TV Century 21 208 [1968-01-11] [TUBCBG].cbr
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Thanks for these.
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cannot seem to access
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Hello. Can you be more specific so i can look into it.
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Hi,
lf i have put this wrong sorry. l was remarking on the supposed TV21 243 in the supermarionation blu-ray set.
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Ah, i hope someone will find that issue once and let us know.
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So do i. l dont think i have many missing.
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Thanks ever so much for these. They’re great uploads. The ADrive site is saying that they’re no longer available publicly, though. Same for the TV21 section. Any ideas about how to access them?
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Thanks for letting me know. Will you try again later this week, when i try to log in the site says also we are having technical difficulties right now. Let me know how things go, if it stay the same i will find another way to share them.
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Good news. Gave it a go tonight. All OK. Thanks for the reply and thanks again for the uploads. I’m enjoying these to bits.
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Thanks for letting me know, your welcome. I’m happy they solved the problems.
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Sadly, the files are inaccessible again. 😟
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Thanks for letting me know.
Sometimes it’s just a temporary error from the downloadsite, sometimes you have to keep trying again, and when you try it the next day it’s working again, let me know how that went so i can see if i can correct the problem or make new downloadlinks.
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Are these just the covers?
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No, the downloads contains rars with cbr files with the issues.
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Apparently there was a TV21 #243 included in the Supermarionation Blu-Ray set. It would be nice, though not essential, if that could be found and included.
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Thanks for the information, that would be nice indeed, i will look for it myself also.
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Hi,
Keep me appraised of this issue please.
thanks
John
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Lew Stringer had an item about issue 243. Here is link to this.
http://lewstringer.blogspot.ca/2017/11/tv21-revival-now-available-to-purchase.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+BlimeyItsAnotherBlogAboutComics+(Blimey!+It%27s+another+blog+about+comics!)
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Checked that it said issue could be obtained for £1.99. Followed link and price is £10.99 discounted briefly to £7.99. Thats still a big hole in ones pocket for one comic, sad.
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Sorry, that should say £8.99
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Hi, somebody supplied the link for Tv century 21 #243. Bad news is as fast as i got it, it disappeared. Can link be put up again pleeeeease.
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You can find it in the Update from this week.
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Hi & thanks, prob. As my pc still relies on the wheel, the mouse and a piece of cheese to tease where do i find the update?
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Sorted, many many thanks.
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Two words!
BRILLIANT!
THANKS!
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Thanks, you are welcome.
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My grandson, who lives with me has been fascinated by the Gerry Anderson series. I am using your comic books to encourage his reading ( He is only just six) . I now do a bedtime story with him in London, and his two cousins who are in Rome on Zoom. I basically put the strips into PowerPoint presentations. Works great. Thank you for this tremendous resource. Ed the Grandpa
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You are welcome, thanks for the comment, it’s always nice to read such comments.
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Hi,
I grew up on TV Century 21. Such artwork firstly from master Noble RIP, Frank Bellamy et al.Glad i could get them in digital. Missing only a few (2 or 3 i think) issues. This “old” geezer really appreciates your site. Many thanks.
John O
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Thanks, you are welcome.
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You’ve made an old young man very happy, thank you. I knew about the Daleks before the Doctor, in TV Century 21, but not by a long shot.
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I am searching for the list of story titles of all Zero-X stories that were published in the Century-21 magazines. There are only a few titles I have been able to retrieve, but even these are not consistent, e.g. the title of the first Zero-X story can be ‘Lost at Mars’ or ‘Return to Mars’. It is the same story by artist Mike Noble and (probably) by script writer Angus P Allan. There are also titles at the beginning of the recent 5 Century 21 reprints, but that’s it. Do you happen to know where I could find a list with all Zero-X story titles?
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I cannot thank you enough for this – it is BRILLIANT! I started with TV21 issue 1 back in the day so this totally fantastic to get to re-read the early stuff and the later stuff will be new to me. It was always a bit weird to me when the football stuff was added but hey footie was so popular I’m not surprised by it. A lot of he stories hold up very well and of course Supermarionation shows never ‘talked down’ to kids so adults can enjoy them too! Thanks again!
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Thanks for the comment, you are welcome.
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