Thunderbirds The Comic was published by Fleetway publications, London England. Issue one went on sale on October 19th 1991 and originally retailed @ 65p, rising to £1.15 by the time of the last issue. Issues 1, 2 and 3 had a free Thunderbird badge on the cover and the series ran for 89 issues before being cancelled in March 1995. The comic was a mixture of the original cartoon strips produced in the 1960's for the TV 21 magazine and the centre pages contained a cutaway drawing by Graham Bleathman, which he had drawn in 1991.