TV Century 21 comic reprints volumes 1 and 2

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I've just received vol. 1 and vol. 2 of TV (Century) 21 (comic strips) reprints.

CONTENTS

Volume 1:

Fireball - The Astran Assassination
Thunderbirds - Chain Reaction
Stingray - The haunting of Station 17
Captain Scarlet - The Football King
Lady Penelope - The Luveniam Affair
T'birds - The Devil's Crag
Zero X - Planet of Bones
S'ray - Superjunk
T'birds - Starbust
Capt. Scarlet - Leviathan

Volume 2:

FB - The Gian Ant Invasion
S'ray - Monster Weed Menace
T'birds - Operation Depthprobe
Zero X - Prisoners of the Eye-Leaves
Capt. Scarlet - Fermicide
T'birds - Curse of the Elastos
FB - Planet of Fire
Lady P - The Androids of London Affair
T'birds - Secret of the Iceberg
FB - The Silent Colony
Capt. Scarlet - The Beginning of the End

I remember almost all Zero X strips from childhood. The two episodes reproduced in these volumes are among the best; I wish they had more Zero X's.

Lady Penelope is just fabulous; she is driven in a pink RR with 6 wheels ("Fab 1"), and yachts around in "Fab 2" (which carries Fab 1). [If this were ever to be made into a movie, it would be a perfect role for Paris Hilton to play, IMO.]

Anyone old enough to remember these?

The spacecraft s appear to travel far, to places like "Astro-sector 40" that can display unusual planet formations and life forms.

"Prisoners of the Eye-Leaves" features "Freak ringed planets" -- a pair of identical-looking planets, except (1) each one looks like an onion ring (or a donut, or bagel), and (2) they are intertwined. The intelligent life form on the planets is a plant that looks like a tobacco leaf with a single eye on it. Not only do they capture and enslave humans, strips of film capturing their images come alive and writhe about like snakes, which I find implausible but not impossible.
 
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