COMMANDO RECENT ISSUES
Latest
Commando titles with original issue number in brackets where applicable.
Updated: 15th
April 2021
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5423 TASSIE DEVIL 1st April 2021 |
5424 (419) THE GUN 1st April 2021 |
5425 BROTHERS IN ARMS 1st April 2021 |
5426 (1669) THE CONDOR FLIES AGAIN 1st April 2021 |
THE HOME OF HEROES |
THE
GOLD COLLECTION |
FOR
ACTION AND ADVENTURE |
THE
SILVER COLLECTION |
By April 1941, the
Nazis had invaded Greece and were pushing the Allies out! Evacuation was
inevitable, however for one Tasmanian, no man was getting left behind. |
What’s it like
to be the son of a legend who fought a man-eating
tiger? Well, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows for British officer Peter
Trelawney, who has to prove himself twice as he tries living up to his
father’s memory and face off against ‘The Gun’! |
Something a
little different as this Commando is set during the Wars of the Roses,
marking the 550 year anniversary of the Battle of Barnet! In this 15th
Century setting two brothers are on opposite sides of the battle for the
English throne: one Lancastrian and the other Yorkist. Bur will either
survive? |
The agent
codenamed “Condor” had returned home to a hero’s welcome in Berlin. But this
Condor was not what he seemed! He had been replaced with a British operative
whose real work as a spy was just about to begin! |
Author:
Brent
Towns |
Author: C.G. Walker |
Author: Andrew Knighton |
Author: R.A. Montague |
Art: Morhain
& Defeo |
Art: Victor de la Fuente |
Art: Manuel Benet |
Art: Philpott |
Cover:
Ian
Kennedy |
Cover: Ken Barr |
Cover: Manuel Benet |
Cover: Ron Brown |
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5419 FIVE SECONDS IN ‘NAM’ 18th March 2021 |
5420 (340/1047) CRACKSHOT 18th March 2021 |
5421 DARKSIDERS 18th March 2021 |
5422 (1666) DESERT THIEF 18th March 2021 |
THE HOME OF HEROES |
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ACTION AND ADVENTURE |
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SILVER COLLECTION |
Age nineteen and a
radio operator in ‘Nam, could there be anything worse? Well, yes, you could
be that and separated from your team with nothing to go by but a garbled
distress call nearby. That’s the position
Charles “Hoss” Nelson found himself in in 1968 and it turned out to be even
more dangerous than he could imagine! |
Nobody, but nobody, likes a
Military Policeman. And when one has been charged with murdering a soldier in
a brawl, there’s plenty of witnesses who’ll say they saw it all – whether they
did or not. That’s what happened to Sergeant
Slasher Gibson, that’s why he was locked up in a military prison with the
dregs of the Allied army. But in that prison, he met the one man who could
help him. Slasher decided to clear his name – quick! The first move was to
escape… |
Set in the City, Commando CO
Truman is tasked with retrieving stolen tech from the rebels, but soon finds
himself in the Dark Zone with a massive bounty on his head. Can he get his team out alive
and will he unravel the mystery surrounding his mission before it’s too late? |
Newly transferred to a desert
reconnaissance group, Jim Collingwood was determined to prove he was good
enough to serve with the experienced men around him. And on his first patrol
he did just that, saving the others from an enemy ambush that could have
wiped them all out. But what no one in the unit knew
yet was that Jim was under suspicion for having committed one of the worst
crimes in the army … stealing from his own mates. |
Author:
Heath
Ackley |
Author: Eric Hebden |
Author: R. Tate |
Author: Roger Sanderson |
Art: Muller and
Klacik |
Art: Gordon C. Livingstone |
Art: Vicente Alcazar |
Art: Arthur Fleming |
Cover:
Neil
Roberts |
Cover: Gordon C. Livingstone |
Cover: Neil Roberts |
Cover: Ian Kennedy |
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5415 MISS HELLFIRE 5th March 2021 |
5416 (1426) SANDS OF DEATH 5th March 2021 |
5417 THE GIRLS ON THE GUNS 5th March 2021 |
5418 (1711/1956) THE MONSTER 5th March 2021 |
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SILVER COLLECTION |
A socialite, nurse,
and driver Petra Stone wasn’t afraid of anything. Once she fixed her mind on
something she put her foot straight down on the accelerator, racing ahead and
leaving everyone else in her dust. When war broke out,
finally she had a real challenge and a chance to prove herself. She didn’t
know what it was she wanted to prove yet, but she did know that her wheels
would be hot as hellfire when she did! |
Lieutenant
Harry Brent was a man with a mission. He had been chosen by British
Intelligence to go into the desert and convince the local tribesmen to fight
alongside the British – and the bag of gold carried would act as the perfect
persuader. An
easy task, you might think, but Harry was going to run into several shady
characters on the way… and one of them had his own plans for the gold! |
August 1942. Stalingrad. As a Panzer
army headed straight towards the Stalingrad Tractor Factory with fool intent,
the only thing that could stop them was the anti-aircraft batteries on the outskirts
of the city. The crews were inexperienced, many of them made up of young
women barely out of their teens. But for the girls on the guns
there was nothing to do but lower their barrels, fire point-blank at the
Nazis, and take not one step back. |
Was it true that this car could
kill people it didn’t like? It was a hugh, powerful job, hand-built to
special order, but it wasn’t just its size and speed that made folk call it “The
Monster”. No there was something more to it than that. If the driver was a good person,
the car was as gentle as a kitten. If they were bad, this was one vehicle
they should never go near! |
Author:
Kate
Dewar |
Author: Mary Feldwick |
Author: Georgia Standen Battle |
Author: Mary Feldwick |
Art: Jaume Forns |
Art: Cecil T. Rigby |
Art: Carlos Pino |
Art: R. Franch |
Cover:
Ian
Kennedy |
Cover: Ron Brown |
Cover: Keith Burns |
Cover: Jeff Bevan |
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5411 READY FOR ANYTHING! 18th February 2021 |
5412 (337/1055) BREAKING POINT 18th February 2021 |
5413 CANINE COMMANDO 18th February 2021 |
5414 (1650) TIME FOR HEROES 18th February 2021 |
THE HOME OF HEROES |
THE
GOLD COLLECTION |
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ACTION AND ADVENTURE |
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SILVER COLLECTION |
To say paratroopers
Callum Phillips and Heath Antwi didn’t like each other was an understatement.
In fact, they hated each other’s guts! A bitter rivalry had formed between
the two after a childish prank cost Heath a promotion and won it for Callum. A proud paratrooper,
Callum thought he was ready for anything but he wasn’t ready to end up
trapped in a farmhouse with heath in the Falklands, pinned down by
Argentinian snipers and an RPG! So the pair had no choice but to work together
– or be ready to go down together! |
Eyes
glazed by the desert sun, half-demented by thirst, the German Captain thought
his last hours had come. Lost in the desert without transport, there was no
hope for him or his men. Then… was it a mirage? No it was real – the robed
figure striding over the dunes, face hidden in the shadow of his hood. A pair
of gleaming eyes studied the Germans for a long time, then the man turned and
beckoned to the troops to follow him. The
Captain croaked an order and followed by his men, stumbled after the strange
figure. |
Polish Sergeant Jakub Leszczuk
is one of the last men defending Lwow in 1939, but as the Russian tanks roll
in, his unit rescues a small puppy called Rebus from a collapsed building. It isn’t long before Rebus
becomes far more than a lucky mascot for the escaping soldiers! As they
retrain for the parachute regiments in Britain, Rebus’s desire to please and
talent for tricks finds him with Leszczuk behind enemy lines in Italy before
prepping the ground for D-Day, as this pair of underdogs help turn the tide
on the Nazis war machine! |
It takes all kinds of men to win
a war – the daring devil-may-care types and the quieter, steadier types who
make up the solid backbone of any successful army. Captain Mike Palmer was one of
the steady types. He didn’t waste lives in needless heroics but he always got
the job done. And when the chips were really down, Mike showed he was more
than a match for any of the death-or-glory mob. |
Author:
Russell
Sheath |
Author: Lester |
Author: Colin Maxwell |
Author: Parker |
Art: Muller
& Klacik |
Art: Segrelles |
Art: Khato |
Art: Carmona |
Cover:
Keith
Burns |
Cover: Segrelles |
Cover: Neil Roberts |
Cover: Ian Kennedy |
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5407 FAIR PLAY 4th February 2021 |
5408 (401/1159) TERROR TEAM 4th February 2021 |
5409 THE FLIGHT OF THE LANKY LOU 4th February 2021 |
5410 (1647) TO CATCH A SPY… 4th February 2021 |
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“Prize rules” – the set
of maritime laws which require a ship’s crew to send a boarding party to
inspect any suspicious merchant vessels. If the merchant ship was found to be
carrying cargo bound for the enemy, then the submarine was permitted to sink
the vessel – after the merchant crew had been put into a place of safety. Two submarine commanders
had very different opinions on this “ fair play” during the Second World War.
One man was bound by these rules and followed them to the letter – the other
didn’t and he was about to learn the consequences! |
To
Barton was desperate to get into action, but the Army wouldn’t let him fight.
They wanted him to do an office job, not get mixed up with the Nazis. Well,
Tom wasn’t having that. Somehow, he would get into the thick of it. So he
took another man’s place! But
Tom wasn’t to know what kind of man he had chosen to impersonate – and he had
stepped right into the shoes of a coward! |
Newly-qualified Flight Sergeant
Owen Lewis was delivered to his new base inside the very plane he was about
to serve in. The Lancaster was a beauty, and the crew welcomed Lewis with
open arms – all except their bomb aimer, Burston, who had a chip on his
shoulder bigger than the bombs he dropped over Germany. Lewis soon found his work cut
out for him as he battled to fit in and defend the Lanky Lou from the
Luftwaffe’s fighters. But, with a major mission before them, it was going to
be a very turbulent flight! |
To catch an enemy agent operating
in Britain and known only by the codename “Leopard” – that was the task
facing Captain Barry West, and he hadn’t had much success. Until now that is,
for in Nazi-occupied France the agent’s cover was about to be blown and his
true identity revealed. But one problem still remained –
the Germans were determined not to let anyone get the information back to Blighty! |
Author:
Steve
Taylor |
Author: Leach |
Author: Andrew Knighton |
Author: R.A. Montague |
Art: Paolo
Ongaro |
Art: Gonzalez |
Art: Morhain & Defeo |
Art: Ruiz |
Cover:
Ian
Kennedy |
Cover: Jordie Penalva |
Cover: Ian Kennedy |
Cover: Ian Kennedy |
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5403 A FOOLS ERRAND 21st January 2021 |
5404 (398/1151) SKY RAIDERS 21st January 2021 |
5405 THE FORGOTTEN HERO 21st January 2021 |
5406 (1646) HEART OF A LION 21st January 2021 |
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SILVER COLLECTION |
Lieutenant Stanley
Harvey wasn’t the most experienced officer plodding around the Egyptian desert
in 1942. And his young age didn’t really inspire confidence in the rank and
file either. So, when Harvey was
sent on a useless little task with scruffy Privates Kenny Cheam and Sidney
Kerr, he felt like he was being fobbed off. But little did Harvey know that
this particular fool’s errand was about to turn into the most important
mission of his war. |
Only
the bravest of the brave and the toughest of the tough served in the Glider
Pilot Regiment. Every
then, was Captain Paul Preston one of this band of heroes? Hadn’t he once
saved his own skin by leaving his men to die, surrounded by Nazis? One of his
new men meant to find out the truth – the whole truth. |
When Kieran Hale receives a
mysterious wreath at his grandfather’s funeral, signed only “M” he is desperate
to find who sent it. His investigation soon uncovers more about his
grandfather’s tour of duty in the Falklands, as he meets old Commandos and
unexpected comrades in arms, each with their own extraordinary story of bravery. From expansive minefields to the
hillside trenches and the savage slopes of Mount Tumbledown, it seems William
Hale’s heroism has never truly been forgotten! |
It was a crazy sight – an old Frenchman
defying an enemy tank, his shotgun against its cannon and machine guns. Yet
his courage did not earn him scorn but the respect and admiration of the
German tank commander. Another
Frenchman was also a brave fighter, but his courage did not come from any
inner strength. No, it came from a lucky coin he always carried in his pocket. |
Author:
Heath
Ackley |
Author: RA Montague |
Author: Andrew Knighton |
Author: K. C. G. Walker |
Art: Morhain
& Defeo |
Art: Victor de la Fuente |
Art: Vicente Alcazar |
Art: Carrion |
Cover:
Ian
Kennedy |
Cover: Jordie Penalva |
Cover: Neil Roberts |
Cover: Jeff Bevan |
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Vic Whittle 2020 |