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Latest Commando titles with original issue number in brackets where applicable.

Updated: 6th September 2018

5151 FUELLED BY FIRE! August 23rd 2018	5152 (554) DUEL OF ACES August 23rd 2018	5153 THE RED DEVIL August 23rd 2018	5154 (2842) CARRIER PILOT August 23rd 2018
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
Somewhere in a barren range of hills in the desert, two pilots had just been shot down. One was British, the other Italian. Both were aces, two of the finest fliers ever to grace the skies of North Africa. Each was determined to get the other. Many times, they had dueled in the air. And now, on the ground, the fight was still going on!	Somewhere in a barren range of hills in the desert, two pilots had just been shot down. One was British, the other Italian. Both were aces, two of the finest fliers ever to grace the skies of North Africa. Each was determined to get the other. Many times, they had dueled in the air. And now, on the ground, the fight was still going on!	Hiding in the Thick snow, the Red Devil is watching. In the battle-torn, bomb-shelled carcass of Stalingrad, she stalks her prey. Her sights aimed and her finger taut, she pulls the trigger…	For some jet pilots, take-offs and landings on an aircraft carrier were a tad frightening to say the least. It was like that for rookie Garry Carter, operating off the coast of Vietnam, and it didn’t help that superior types like senator’s son, Scott Bradley, boasted that he found it all very easy. But once up there in the danger-filled skies, thundering towards a target in his bombed-up A7 Corsair, Garry soon proved himself a force to be reckoned with!
Author: Iain McLaughlin	Author: DCT Staff	Author: Iain McLaughlin	Author: Ian Clark
Art: Carlos Pino	Art:: Amador	Art: Vicente Alcazar	Art: Jose Maria Jorge
Cover: Carlos Pino	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Graeme Neil Reid	Cover: Ian Kennedy
5147 WALKING THE LINE August 8th 2018	5148 (552) THE FIGHTING PHANTOM August 8th 2018	5149 COURSE FOR FREEDOM August 8th 2018	5150 (2834) SURE-SHOT SAM August 8th 2018
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
Bailing out of his Stirling Mk. III bomber over Nazi-occupied France, Flight Lieutenant Alan Freeman know his wits would only get him so far. But, lucky for him, the French Resistance were ready to lend a hand and get him back to Blighty. However, not everything was rosy in the Resistance, and there was talk of a traitor in their midst. Would Alan make the journey to Spain in one piece? Or would those helping him turn him over to the Gestapo?	Bert Graham is 50. Serving as a major in the army, he’s nearly as fit and tough as he was way back in the war when he was a sergeant. He has some really great stories, but none match the one when he and his mates were stranded behind enemy lines – and Bert took his orders from a ghost!	When Jurgen Schwer joined the Luftwaffe in the Second World War, he had no idea that he would become a prisoner of war in the barren Nevada Desert, or even still – a fugitive on the run in Mexico and Columbia! It seemed that the only way Jurgen could get back to Europe and his family was to help pilot a rogue mission to destroy the Panama Canal. Only then could he begin to plot his… Course for Freedom	Private Sam Smith was a bit of a misfit. Nobody in his infantry company pushing up through Italy in 1944 knew quite what to make of him – but nobody could say that he wasn’t a crack shot with his beloved Lee Enfield rifle! And when some petty crooks tried to frame him, they soon discovered – like the Germans – that it wasn’t safe to fool… Sure-Shot Sam
Author: Andrew Knighton	Author: A Carney Allan	Author: George Low	Author: Burden
Pencils: Morhain & Rezzonico	Art: Cecil T Rigby	Art: Jaume Forns	Art: Vila
Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: Jordi Penalva	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Ian Kennedy
5143 THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY July 26th 2018	5144 (487/1388) HEROES’ HILL July 26th 2018	5145 NAZI GOLD! July 26th 2018	5146 (2831) THE NELSON SPIRIT July 26th 2018
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
In the parched deserts of North Africa, water is of the most precious resource and, for the Allied and Axis who fought there, it was the difference between life and death. That’s why LRDG Captain Tommy Butler and Afrika Korps Hauptmann Arn Renner were willing to fight to the bitter end to claim an oasis – that is, until a third party entered the fray and Butler and Renner were forced to turn from enemies to allies. But just how long would their alliance last?	It wasn’t much of a hill… it didn’t look important but it was a natural observation point that looked out over the Dutch countryside for miles around. And it would make history in its own little way. Lieutenant Sandy Sanderson’s orders were to take the hill in any way possible to cover the oncoming Allied offensive. But something strange was happening… for here, standing shoulder to shoulder, British and German soldiers would fight a common enemy in World War II..	In a secret room, several Wehrmacht Generals met, their greedy eyes wide at the thought of their Nazi gold. These selfish men had pilfered gold bullion from the National Banks of Yugoslavia and Greece during their Nazi occupation. But now a ragtag group of East London gangsters and British Army officers were going to steal it…	Schoolboy Billy Peters loved the old stories of swashbuckling pirates – and living on an island in the Caribbean, there were plenty of tales to hear. But this was 1941 and Britain was at war with Germany. There were other pirates to worry about now – the kind who sailed U-boats threatened to cripple Britain’s navies. One of these modern undersea raiders would give Billy his most exciting story ever – if he lived to tell it…
Author: Iain McLaughlin	Author: A Carney Allan	Author: Jim & David Turner	Author: Ian Clark
Pencils: Muller Inks: Klacik	Art: Franch	Art: Paolo Ongaro	Art: Keith Shone
Cover: Janek Matysiak	Cover: Jordi Penalva	Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: Jose Maria Jorge
5139 THE FORLORN HOPE July 12th 2018	5140 (483/1404) SHOOTING STAR July 12th 2018	5141 OUTFOXED! July 12th 2018	5142 (2824) HIGH RISK RESCUE July 12th 2018
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
The men of the 45th Regiment of Foot gripped their Brown Bess muskets with sweaty hands, ready to storm the breaches at Badajoz. The 45th were the soldiers chosen to be the first part of the attack. Their fight would be the hardest with the most casualties. For this, they called them… The Forlorn Hope.	Rex Barton was a top British film star who had played the hero in film after film. And every time he was a tougher, harder-hitting hero. When the war broke out, he was safe in Hollywood, but a man like Rex couldn’t just sit by and watch it all happen. So, he joined the RAF as a pilot – determined to prove a film star hero could be a real-life hero when the chips were down, and the bullets lethal.	While most Germans were happy to wait out the end of the bloody conflicts of World War Two in a sleepy POW camp in rural Scotland, one man was determined to escape! His name was Gefreiter Fritz Schmitt – or at least that’s what he said he was. Schmitt knew he had to get out before wily civilian Police Sergeant Dick McKay uncovered the dark secret of what he did in Ardennes only months before…	Serving on Coastal Motor Boats during the First World War was no joke. 55 feet long, with a top speed of 40 knots, they were uncomfortable and noisy. Their torpedo-launching system was almost as dangerous for their crews as it was for their targets! But now CMB skipper, Lieutenant Frank Judge had an even more dangerous task. Sent ashore behind enemy lines, he had to rescue, at all cost, a missing naval officer – a man who knew too much!
Author: Andrew Knighton	Author: Peter Newark	Author: Colin Watson	Author: Ian Clark
Art: Manuel Benet	Art: Gordon C Livingstone	Art: Morhain	Art: Olivera
Cover: Manuel Benet	Cover: Gordon C Livingstone	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Ian Kennedy
5135 THE DARK SPITFIRE June 28th 2018	5136 (485/1396) ATLANTIC PATROL June 28h 2018	5137 NEXY STOP… FREEDOM! June 28h 2018	5138 (2752) UNDER FIRE! June 28h 2018
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
It came out of nowhere, a glint of moonlight reflected in the dark night sky. The Luftwaffe pilot’s eyes frantically searched for his attacker in the murk of the evening, but it was invisible… a phantom. Then it streaked across the clouds like a bat out of Hades, its guns blazing at the Messerschmitt 109. The German cried out his final words…	Walter Bennett still had nightmares of the day when his Anson, all set to attack a surfaced U-boat, had almost collided with a Catalina flown by an overanxious Yank who had also come in for the kill. Walter had dodged the Yank – and flown straight into a hail of fire from the German guns which massacred his crew. Ever since, Walter had cursed Americans, every last one of them. So you can imagine his feelings when he was ordered to report to Iceland… to fly with and instruct American pilots!	Aggregate rocket scientist Professor Carl Epstein was forced to flee Berlin in 1935, fearing Germany would use his knowledge to rain destruction on its enemies. Epstein and his wife chose peace, settling in a sleepy Spanish town. But soon the Nazis would come for them… Now, in 1938, amidst the devastation of the Spanish Civil War, the Epsteins would have to run once more – this time with the help of the Spanish militia and their armoured battle bus!	Occupied France, 1944. Medical student Jean Valdon was under suspicion by his fellow Frenchmen of collaborating with the Germans. Jean didn’t waste time arguing. He offered his services – and skills – to the hard-pressed British Army and set out to prove himself…
Author: Iain McLaughlin	Author: Gordon Brunt	Author: Richard Davis	Author: Ian Clark
Art: Jaume Forns	Art: Arias	Art: Morhain	Art: Olivera
Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: Ian Kennedy
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5131 THE PHANTOM’S REVENGE June 14th 2018	5132 (463/1232) MIDNIGHT MENACE June 14th 2018	5133 THE HOME FRONT June 14th 2018	5134 (2760) DEADLY CONVOY June 14th 2018
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
In the summer of 1808, in the early months of the Peninsular war, five prophecies of death were given to those aboard HMS Phantom. First, in the shadow of a burning cross. Second, amongst the reaper’s spoils. Third, in the jaws of the sea. Fourth, beneath a mountain’s tears. And fifth, when the man with the burning crown dooms his ship… Captain Valentine did not care for fortunes or fate, but as his crew began to fall to each of the foretold deaths, it seemed that the crew of The Phantom had more than Napoleon’s fleet hunting them.	They called it Operation Midnight Sun. It had never been done before, but the Nazis thought they had found a new way of winning a battle – and maybe even the war. It meant turning night into day – and they were clever enough to find a way of doing even that. But it takes more than just brains to win the day against Second Lieutenant Matt Rodgers and his men.	Spies? Dead cattle? Murder? Wilhelmina Home came to Britain to volunteer as a WAAC in the First World War but she soon found herself embroiled in a plot worthy of her favourite author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Underestimated at every turn, Wilhelmina began to piece together the clues uncovering a conspiracy which could threaten the whole of Britain! A mystery was afoot on… The Home Front	Nobody could doubt the nerve and spirit of Sam Wilson. He was keen to the core, always ready to pile into the action. He was tested to the full as a hard-pressed infantryman and went on to become a well-trained Commando. He had only one weakness – he didn’t know when to count to ten before he acted. The flaw was going to cost him and his friend a lot of grief before the lesson was learned.
Author: Dominic Teague	Author: A. Carney Allan	Author: Shane Filer	Author: KCG Walker
Art: Vicente Alcazar	Art: Cecil T Rigby	Art: Carlos Pino	Art: Cecil T Rigby
Cover: Janek Matysiak	Cover: Jordi Bosch Penalva	Cover: Carlos Pino	Cover: Phil Gascoigne
5127 LAST BOAT HOME May 31st 2018	5128 (443/1247) TERROR DROP May 31st 2018	5129 DESERT DECEPTION May 31st 2018	5130 (2753) HOME GUARD HERO May 31st 2018
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
The Blitzkrieg had thundered through France leaving carnage in its wake. For many men, the British Expeditionary Force’s retreat ended long before the beaches at Dunkirk. But one thing was certain: Lieutenant Jack Dodd was going to get his men home. Even as they huddled, stranded in a coastal village, with no hope of the Royal Navy finding them, Jack knew that there was one boat that would chance the Channel and sail them straight for Blighty!	Right into the heart of the gestapo HQ they had come – six Polish deserters led by an English officer. Their mission was to capture a Gestapo official – alive. But for Lieutenant Ron Barclay there was another quest – he was trying to find his father, who had vanished in Poland when the Nazis attacked. Now only a single door separated Ron from the Gestapo chief. Ron kicked it open – and got the shock of his life.	Hauptmann Fritz Friedel hated the desert with its relentless sun and oceans of coarse sand. The German captain thought his career was over when he was assigned a post on the remotest part of the German line, but then he heard music echoing in the desert wasteland. Following the eerie melody, Friedel discovered a pair of Swiss cousins excavating ruins on the battlefields of North Africa. But who were these archaeologists really?	Officially they were called Forward Air Controllers, but air pirates was nearer the mark. What else would you call pilots who sneaked about all over the Vietnamese jungle tops, ambushing the enemy from the air then withdrawing before they had time to retaliate? Roy Armour was one of these men. He flew with a secret unit based in Laos. There, the dangers he faced got even worse when he landed!
Author: Richard Davis	Author: A. Carney Allan	Author: George Low	Author: Ian Clark
Art: Paolo Ongaro	Art: Victor de la Fuente	Art: Morhain	Art: Jose Maria Jorge
Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: Jordi Bosch Penalva	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Jose Maria Jorge
© D. C. Thomson & Co Ltd.		Vic Whittle 2018