Bernard's Topo Gigio Fireman Book

 Reader and book collector Bernard Dunne has kindly sent me these pictures of his latest Century 21 book find.

COUNT 123 WITH BARNABY

If you like obscure Century 21 books then this maybe one for Santa's sack!

Count 123 with Barnaby and His Friends, copyright Century 21 Publishing 1968.

Images kindly supplied by Bernard Dunne.

WILL'S JOE 90 DOSSIER

Hi. 

I picked up this copy of the Joe 90 dossier book the other day. Inside was a letter that I’d never seen before. Have you? Quite unusual. 

Will O.

Do you like it?

Here's the advert for the dossier in Joe 90 comic no. 7.

MAGS' MAGS: CENTURY 21's PAUL DANIEL'S PUZZLETIME

Reader Mags kindly sent me pictures of her Puzzletime publications connected to magician Paul Daniels and published by Century 21 Merchandising no less. What do you think? 

THE PERSUADERS ANNUAL COVER 1973: CENTURY 21 MERCHANDISING

Cover And Copyright page to 'The Persuaders!' Annual 1973 kindly supplied by Bernard Dunne.

CENTURY 21 PUBLISHING 2007 FAB MAGAZINE UPDATE

Collector Bernard Dunne has informed me that number 56 of Fanderson's FAB magazine in 2007 [cover pictured] ran a major article on Century 21 and ITC licensing. Some of the more unusual licenses included The Saint, Man in a Suitcase, The Prisoner, the Champions and Department S. 

It certainly seems like an article to get hold of. Anyone got this FAB?

Publications stemming from these may be credited as Century 21, although as Bernard has pointed out to me, some maybe uncredited. The Man in a Suitcase Sleeping Cupid paperback was published by the Daily Mail for instance.

Have you any C21 books?

CANDY AND ANDY AND THE LOST HEDGEHOG

Contributor and C21 book collector Bernard Dunne has kindly sent me these pictures of his Candy And Andy Story Book (Number BGB1) published by Century 21 Publishing in 1968.

The title on the title page is different from the title on the cover.

It's dimensions are 9 x 12 Inches.

Did you have this book as a kid readers or read Candy and Andy books and comics?

CENTURY 21 PUBLISHING: THE GERMAN PERSUADERS

Collector Bernard Dunne has very kindly alerted me to these new entries for our ongoing 'list' of Gerry Anderson's Century 21 publications and he has kindly supplied me with these excellent cover scans.

 'The Persuaders!'  - two of these books, based on the popular the TV series, were published in Germany by German publisher Julius Breitschopf KG of Munich.

They were printed in Zagreb, Yugoslavia and dated 1972.

Bernard notes that they are (c) Century 21 Publishing, so he surmises that the Germans must have reprinted the British ones in a translated version under licence.

German 'The Persuaders!' Book One, HB,

Die 2.

[ Bernard looked at the French version too. There is no credit of C21 Publishing on that.]

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German The Persuaders Book Two, HB.

Die 2.

Thunderbirds Somportex Poster

Woodsy,

A shot of the 'trade poster' that the Thunderbirds large Somportex bubblegum cards made up by putting the backs of the cards together like a jigsaw

Bernard Dunne

THE CENTURY 21 DUCK WHO COULD NOT SWIM

Front book cover scan courtesy of Bernard Dunne

WILL OSBORNE'S MARVELLOUS CENTURY 21 SOFTBACK BOOKS

Hi all.

Further to the post on Century 21 Publishing, here are a few of their softback offerings as opposed to the hardback annuals. 

Will O.

UK

TEDS, TEDDIES, BEARANDAS AND EDWARDS

 Teddy's have always been big with kids.

We had Tingha and Tucker this morning courtesy of Century 21 licensing and Gerry Anderson's organisation had more too, namely the Bearandas who drove Stripey the mini and ran the magic toyshop in Candy/ Candy and Andy comics and Annuals. 

Just 9d every Wednesday!

Did you have anything to do with Candy and Andy or Tingha and Tucker?

Among countless telly bears here's one I never knew, Teddy Edward, a neat play of words as Teddy is already an Edward. here's an annual I've just freecycled to someone from 1975. By Christmas 1975 I was 15 and dreaming of cuddling girls, not teddies!

Did you know Teddy Edward?

And maybe a much more famous telly teddy is SuperTed, the welsh bear. We used to watch it on S4C in the early 80's with our one year old daughter when we lived across from Puffin Island.

Superted is making a comeback this year by all accounts and his spotty friend too.

Do you remember SuperTed?

Just what is the universal appeal of teddy bears readers? Do you know?

Did you have a teddy?

TINGHA AND TUCKER: CENTURY 21 PUBLICATIONS

Pictures courtesy of Bernard Dunne.

Have you anything like this?

CENTURY 21 AND ABBA

Perhaps one of the most surprising licences for Gerry Anderson's Century 21 Merchandising company, and a late one, is for various Abba publications.

Yep, Abba. Waterloo and all that! Here's the Lyrical Collection book from 1982.

http://getabba.com/~getabbac/collection/printed/books/book_ABBA_a_lyric_collection.htm

A C T I O N G I R L

Courtesy of Bernard Dunne.

It would make a great Xmas prezzy as it did back in the day!

TOPO GIGIO ANNUAL 1968

Century 21 Topo Gigio 1968 Annual 

Courtesy of Bernard Dunne.

CENTURY 21 LICENCES: A FEW MORE

Here we have the Champions' paperback and The Man In A Suitcase paperback

and from the 1967 Dinky catalogue 'The Prisoner' Mini Moke and the 'Candy and Andy' Stripey The Magic Mini car. 

This is the only one that mentions Century 21 on any of these!

All courtesy of Bernard Dunne

CENTURY 21 PUBLISHING UPDATE

A few updates for collectors:

Bengo Annual by Century 21 (released 1969) as a spin off/tie-in. The dog Bengo appeared in the Candy and Andy comics [source: Graeme Bleatham]

ATV Merchandise: Fanderson's FAB magazine contained a piece on Gerry Anderson's ITC merchandise not from his own series. It appears that Century 21 also published under the name 'ATV Merchandise'. It says that their first 'license' was for 'The Saint' so the later 'Saint' annuals + books were made under license from C21.

Exclusive licenses: The Champions, The Prisoner & Man in A Suitcase, so The Champions book (Sixth Sense is Death),the Man In A Suitcase book (Sleeping Cupid) and The Prisoner Dinky Mini Moke were all made under licence to Century 21

Century 21 also had an exclusive license to 'Department S' and it appeared as a strip in the later 'TV Century 21 & TV Tornado' Comic, these strips were later reprinted in Holland in their comic 'TV2000' - later they added all the stories together and brought it out as a one-off/collection with no credit to Century 21 (Is this the same thing as the Dutch 'Monkees' annual?).

I would like to thank Bernard Dunne for the above information.

NOT CENTURY 21 PUBLISHING BOOK MYSTERY

https://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookinfo.phtml?nr=1405851286&l=en&seller=-csmx

It isn't Century 21 Publishing. It was published by Century! Doh!

Took some working out that!

ROGER PERRY AND CENTURY 21 PUBLISHING ON BEAR ALLEY

For the real background on Century 21 publishing read the brilliant series of Perry's Picture Posts on the superb Bear Alley blog: here's just a few few but read them all on Bear Alley.

https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2016/05/perrys-picture-post-part-4.html

https://bearalley.blogspot.com/search/label/Perry%27s%20Picture%20Post?updated-max=2016-05-28T05:03:00%2B01:00&max-results=20&start=12&by-date=false

https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2016/06/perrys-picture-post-part-13.html

https://bearalley.blogspot.com/search/label/Perry%27s%20Picture%20Post?updated-max=2016-06-11T05:03:00%2B01:00&max-results=20&start=6&by-date=false