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The International Rescue Book of Thunderbirds FAB Cross Sections.

With possibly the longest title in the history of Gerry Anderson-related books, this paperback from Ravette featured 14 cross sections reprinted from Fleetway's 'Thunderbirds: The Comic'. These included:

• A cross section showing how the Empire State Building was moved in the TV episode 'Terror in New York City'.
• Feature pages on the Pod vehicles.
• The robot Braman drawn by Steve Kyte.

Unlike the more recent books published by Carlton, this volume presented the vehicles or buildings set in fully painted backgrounds. Technical details were labelled with numbers referring to a 'Key' panel or box positioned in the corner of each spread. The book retailed for £2.99 and, like the more recent Thunderbirds FAB Cross Sections, it sold out fairly rapidly.

Supermarionation Cross Sections.

Supermarionation Cross-sections is a follow-up volume to the best selling Thunderbirds FAB cross-sections. Whilst that book concentrated on the craft and locations associated with International Rescue, Supermarionation Cross-sections broadens its scope to feature other series created by Gerry Anderson.

Probably the most challenging cross-section Graham drew for the book was Marineville. On TV only the Control Tower, the living quarters next to it, the hospital, power plant and Stingray's pen are prominently featured. The rest of the best seems to consist of a number of nondescript warehouse like buildings and installations that house the WASP Training Unit, workshops, laboratories and the like. What needed to be shown was where the rest of the personnel live, where the aircraft are stored and what the underground submarine network looks like. As most of this isn't seen in the Stingray episodes, Marineville's cross-section almost became an exercise in town planning, effectively producing a sort of Milton Keynes with missiles!

Thunderbirds Classic Comic Strips.

Published in August 2002, this book is a 160 page hardcover volume reprinting the first four Frank Bellamy Thunderbirds strips from TV Century 21, plus the first and last Lady Penelope strips by Eric Eden from the same comic. The first story introduces Parker plus the ongoing villain Mr. Stedman, while the final story introduces the Hood. Lady Penelope also meets Jeff Tracy in this strip and she is introduced to the Tracy Family in the first Thunderbirds story.

Two TV21 Holiday Special strips are also included: a Lady Penelope story by Dan Dare artist, Frank Hampson and another Thunderbirds story by another ex-Dan Dare artist, Don Harley.

The book also features a brief history of TV21, reprints of 1960s advertisements from the Comic featuring Thunderbirds products, as well as Dateline-style newspaper sections introducing most of the comic strip adventures.

Finally the book features a wrap around dust jacket illustrated in a Bellamy-esque style, by Graham.

Thunderbirds FAB Cross Sections. - Japanese version

Produced in association with the Japanese 'Hobby Magazine', this book reprints the entire contents of Thunderbirds FAB Cross Sections twice! The first section prints all of the cutaways in colour with English captions. After a 3 page central section on IMAI Thunderbird kits, the same cutaways are again reproduced in black and white with Japanese captions. The book is roughly the same size as it's English counterpart, but has 64 pages and is a softcover.

World of Thunderbirds: exposing the secrets of International Rescue.

This book reprints the entire contents of Thunderbirds FAB Cross Sections plus a chapter about Thunderbirds characters taken from Chris Bentley's 'Complete Book of Thunderbirds' which was published by Carlton Books in 2000. The 'World of Thunderbirds' was packaged by Carlton Books and is a hardback retailing at £6.

Thunderbirds Secret Files: The Inside Story of International Rescue .

This book reprints the entire contents of Thunderbirds FAB Cross Sections plus a chapter about Thunderbirds characters taken from Chris Bentley's 'Complete Book of Thunderbirds' which was published by Carlton Books in 2000. Additional material has been supplied by Stephen Cole on the world of Thunderbirds.

It is a large format paperback.

Little Books of Classic Thunderbirds:

• Little Book of Classic Thunderbirds. ISBN 1844428958
• Little Book of Classic Thunderbirds 1. ISBN 1844428990
• Little Book of Classic Thunderbirds 2. ISBN 1844428982
• Little Book of Classic Thunderbirds 3. ISBN 1844428974
• Little Book of Classic Thunderbirds 4. ISBN 1844428966

Four books concentrate on Thunderbirds 1 to 4 and each features a cutaway of the vehicle printed in sections on different pages.

The fifth book, simply called 'Little Book of Classic Thunderbirds' concentrates on Tracy Island and features a Tracy Island and a Thunderbird 5 cutaway. Material for these books was gleaned from Thunderbirds FAB Cross Sections, The Complete Book of Thunderbirds and various Thunderbirds storybooks.

They each measure 8cm x 9cm and they retail at £2.99.

Supermarionation Cross Sections. Japanese version.

Supermarionation Cross-sections is a follow-up volume to the best selling Thunderbirds FAB cross-sections. Whilst that book concentrated on the craft and locations associated with International Rescue, Supermarionation Cross-sections broadens its scope to feature other series created by Gerry Anderson.The book is roughly the same size as it's English counterpart, but has 83 pages and is a softcover. The same cutaways are again reproduced in black and white with Japanese captions

Bleathman, Graham. Supermarionation cross sections. Kadokawa Publishing Co., Ltd. ISBN 4840225400

Thunderbirds FAB Cross Sections. 40th anniversary edition.

Reprint of the 2000 bestseller with two new cross sections:

• Tracy Villa
• Thunderbird 2 launch bay.