This weekly comic was first published in 1965 as TV Century 21 by City Magazines (and later by IPC) to promote Gerry Anderson properties, taking the Supercar and FireballXL5 strips from TV Comic.
The comic was published in the style of a newspaper of the future, with the front page usually dedicated to fictional news stories set in the universe of Anderson’s TV shows.
The comic was renamed TV21 in 1968 when it absorbed TV Tornado and strips based on TV series were gradually phased out, with Star Trek eventually the lone survivor. In 1972 it merged into Valiant.
Regular strips included:
The Blue Angels
Burke’s Law
Butch Conner Sheriff of Dodge City
Cap’n Stardust
Captain Scarlet
Catch or Kill
Clancy Clot: Magician’s Mate
The Daleks
Danny Merlin Son of the Wise – a fantasy strip about junk shop owner Danny Merlin, keeper of the “Keys of Wisdom”
Department S
Fireball XL5
Forward From the Back Streets
Front Page – TV Century 21 investigative reporter Pete Tracker learns about the secretive organisation Spectrum in the year 2067
Get Smart
Ghost Rider
The Heat-Master
Homer the Happy Ghost
The Investigator
I’ve Got a Sports-Mad Dad
Joe 90
The Kid King
Lady Penelope
Land of the Giants
The Lone Ranger and Tonto
Menace of the Black Museum
Micky’s Moonbugs
The Munsters
My Favorite Martian
The Phantom
The Ringo Kid
The Saint – formerly in TV Tornado. Renamed ‘Meet The Saint’
Sgt Bilko
The Silver Surfer
S.N.O.R.K.E.L – which stood for Section Nine, Ocean Research and Knowledge Establishment for Learning
Special Agent 21 – eventually changed its name to ‘Mr Magnet’
Spider-Man
Star Trek
Stingray
Supercar
Tarzan – formerly in TV Tornado
Thunderbirds
The Tuffs of Terror Island
Wheels Moran
Wright C.H.A.R.L.I.E. – a humour strip about the inventions of a Professor Wright from the Central Headquarters Atomic Research Liaison for Industrial Experimentation (C.H.A.R.L.I.E)
Cap’n Stardust
