Posted by Griff on Sep 27, 2010; 6:44am
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Classic-Comic-Strips-Volume-5-tp1587060.html

Hi All,

I was REALLY looking forward to seeing some of the UFO related comic reprints from the good old days of Countdown and TV Action in "Classic Comic Strips Volume 5" ... But last Friday, Chris Bentley in a sad missive to the Fanderson list clearly stated that this is not going to happen due to the demise of Reynolds and Hearn back in June of this year. The Century 21 Annual is also a casualty.

It's not all bad news though...

Best to all, Griff

Please excuse me if you get this a few times, I have posted and posted but whatever Yahoo are playing at, it is not good.

Please see Chris's message in total below:-

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After the news broke in June of the liquidation of Reynolds and Hearn, I didn't think anyone would seriously still be expecting the Century 21 Annual to be published in August. But since it's a topic that's come up on the club forum, I thought that perhaps I'd better address it.

At the point at which the company went into liquidation, everything they currently had scheduled was cancelled. That included the Century 21 Annual and Volume 5 of the strip reprints. Work on both titles had progressed no further than planning the contents: we were due to start work on the annual in June and Volume 5 soon after but that did not happen. To date, no strip restoration has taken place on those titles, no pages have been laid out, no supplementary material has been written, and neither book has been printed.

As it stands at the moment, the future of the Century 21 books is uncertain but promising. Titan Books did indeed purchase the Reynolds and Hearn list, but this did not actually include any of the Gerry Anderson titles as the rights on those books were reclaimed by their respective authors prior to the sale of the list. The rights to publish the Century 21 books have instead been signed to a new imprint, Signum Books, who are now in negotiation with printers and distributors with a view to relaunching the Century 21 books some time in 2011.

So despite what the listings on Amazon might still say, neither the Century 21 Annual nor Century 21: Classic Comic Strips Volume 5 will be published this year.

Chris