The first Thunderbirds annual appeared in 1966, and the last has a cover date of 1973.

 

The early Thunderbirds annuals are of excellent quality, with many features on the Tracy family and colour photographs of the Thunderbirds in action.

 

There was a lot of tongue-in-cheek 'biographical' information, such as in the 1966 annual which informed us that 'Brains', the scientist behind the Thunderbirds organisation, was spending his spare time translating Einstein's theory of relativity into Latin.

 

As well as the annuals, there was also an illustrated large 46-page story book called 'The Target', published by World Distributors.