UPDATES April 5, 2004
The Spectrum Headquarters site is offering to its visitors the possibility of signing an online petition, that will eventually be presented to the Carlton Publishing Group of Carlton International. This petition will ask that Carlton would consider the possibility of releasing a book similar to the one that was released last year, and in which were collected reprints of TV Century 21 strips of "Thunderbirds". Considering the now very likely possibility that the new Captain Scarlet CGI series - which is presently in preparation - will indeed be aired soon on TV, and the merchandises that will surely be associated to it, this very well could mark a great opportunity for Carlton to release those old strips of the ORIGINAL hero.
None of the strips run were ever reprinted entirely. So you are all invited to read the petition, and add your signature to it. This site will make contact with other related sites, to see if they would accept to put a link through this petition, so it would be possible to generate as many signatures as possible.
At the moment, the number of signatures for the petition is stuck at 38. Considering that the petition is rather young, it's not bad, but we need far more than that if we have to convince Carlton that printing such a book will be a good deal for them... and for all of us fans, most of whom didn't have the chance to actually collect those strips way back when, and who are waiting just for such an opportunity to own them now. Considering the huge amount of publicity on the new CGI series, and its imminent airing, it could be our best opportunity to ever see those strips - and who knows, our last, maybe.
I'm asking help from EVERY visitors of the Spectrum Headquarters site and forum. Sign the petition! Make publicity! Tell ALL Captain Scarlet fans about this petition. If you have a site, feel free to link the petition to one of your pages, by using either the link bellow or the banner. If you know other people who have a related site, ask them if they would want to add a link too. We need to contact as many people as possible, in order to assemble the greater number of signatures we can. We have to do this all together, if we are to succeed!
If you own a Gerry Anderson related site and do add the link to your site, you can contact me so I would be able to express my thanks to your interest, and add your name to the list of links and sponsors to this project, onto the petition page.
To those who are a little bit concerned about putting your names online: rest assured that all signatures, and especially e-mail addresses are confidential. Only the webmaster of the Spectrum Headquarters site, the administrator of its companion forum, and the people at Carlton will see them, so you don't have to be worried that you'll start receiving spam, publicity, all kind of unwanted e-mails or other contacts that may bother you. Leaving your e-mail address is, in any case, optional, but it gives credentials to your identity.
When people sign the petition, they can also leave a comment - that is also an option. The administrators of this site may take comments left on the petition to post on the forum or on this page, as a measure of encouragement for more people to sign the petition. Be assured that the comments will stay ANONYMOUS. No name will be used without the consent of any person who would sign the petition.
Be many to sign!
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