COMMANDO RECENT ISSUES
Latest
Commando titles with original issue number in brackets where applicable.
Updated: 7th
November 2024
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5795 STRANGE FEQUENCIES 24th October
2024 |
5796 (474/1363) CASTLE OF DOOM 24th October 2024 |
5797 THE QM’S STOREROOM OF SECRETS 24th October 2024 |
5798 (1084) GHOST TIGER 24th October 2024 |
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THE
HOME OF HEROES |
THE GOLD COLLECTION |
FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE |
THE SILVER COLLECTION |
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The camp is deserted,
no sign of life anywhere. But what’s that you hear among the shifting sands
in the barren North African desert? Maybe in the distance there is the drum
and thump of artillery like a heartbeat, buy not here, not even the howls of
the wind interrupt the horrible stillness. That is until you
hear it… the crackling of a radio set to a strange frequency, and the
rasping, ghoulish voice calling your name… “Listen… You must
listen… You must listen…” |
They stood face
to face and shook hands like the best of friends. One was Major Pete Lambert
and the other, Franz Becker, an officer in the hated German SS. And all around them were hot
guns smoking and the acrid smell of war… |
Included in this creepy Commando are: Six
stories for Halloween By Georgia
Standen Battle THE
WELL Art:
Alberto Saichann MIRAGE
OF MYSTERY Art:
Esteve Polls DOOMED
RAID Art:
Paolo Ongaro MURDER
OF CROWS Art:
Carlos Pino GRAVE
OF BOWMEN Art:
Manuel Benet CASTLE
CALUDAR Art: Vicente
Alcazar |
Deep in the steaming jungle of
India, where the tiger is king, there dwelt a sinister spirit. It was known
as Thuggee Raj, a ghost tiger which nightly prowled the forest paths,
striking terror into every heart. Any man who scoffed at it was foolish indeed,
for Thuggee Raj had a power no man could overcome – the power of life and
death! |
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Author: Daniel McCachey |
Author:
A Carney Allan |
Author:
Georgia
Standen Battle |
Author:
Alan
Lomas |
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Art: Juan Fernandez |
Art: Gordon
Livingstone |
Art: Various |
Art: Rafael
Boluda |
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Cover: Marco Bianchini |
Cover:
Gordon Livingstone |
Cover:
Manuel Benet |
Cover:
Ian Kennedy |
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5791 THE MUMMY’S TOMB 10th
October 2024 |
5792 (117/643) GHOST PILOT 10th October 2024 |
5793 THE DEMON OF SELVA OSCURA 10th October 2024 |
5794 (582/1667) RIVER OF DEATH 10th October 2024 |
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THE HOME OF HEROES |
THE GOLD COLLECTION |
FOR
ACTION AND ADVENTURE |
THE SILVER COLLECTION |
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Four British soldiers stood on ground untouched for centuries. While
the battle for North Africa raged above them, their greedy eyes fixed on the
treasure of the ancient Egyptian tomb. Each man took a prize to cash in once
the war had ended – canopic jars containing the mummy’s organs. Four men, four jars… each doomed to suffer the mummy’s curse. |
Piloting a lurching bomb-loaded Lancaster through the
flame-lit shell-torn night skies of Germany needed nerves of steel. Bomber
pilots were a tough, cheery bunch. They had to be. Then into a squadron came
a strange, young pilot with pure white hair and burning, bitter eyes, and
raids began to go wrong. Bombs were wasted on grass fields. Nazi Ack-Ack guns
and fighters were ready and waiting for our bombers, even on surprise raids.
Plane after vulnerable plane was lost without trace. The
time came when questions had to be asked – and the answers given by the
white-haired pilot started up the whisper of “Traitor!” |
July 1943. As war rages across Europe, the Italian village
of Selva Oscura has grown eerily quiet. Troubled SOE captain Simon Peters,
has been tasked with securing the strategic territory. Unbeknownst
to him, the sadistic Oberst Faustmann rules over Selva Oscura with a strange
power. Why can none of the villagers escape through the surrounding forests?
What was it that the Nazis uncovered in the catacombs beneath the ancient
church? |
They
took Jim Chalmers off Hurricanes because they reckoned he’s lost his nerve,
fought too many dogfights with Zeros. They gave him a lumbering Dakota on a
routine job ferrying supplies from one base to another. Jim didn’t like this
at all, but he needn’t have worried. There were wilder days coming, days when
he would have no plane at all, when he’d be up against the Japanese and
jungle on the… River of Death. |
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Author: Georgia Standen Battle |
Author: Gardner |
Author: Kate Dewar |
Author: Chris Fitzsimmons |
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Art: Jaume Forns |
Art: Peter Ford |
Art: Carlos Pino |
Art: Gonzalez |
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Cover: Marco Bianchini |
Cover: Ken Barr |
Cover: Carlos Pino |
Cover: Ian Kennedy |
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5787 (2538/4182) HUNTER AND BUNTER 26th
September 2024 |
5788 (2669) JUNGLE KILLER 26th September 20242 |
5789 (2949) THE DEVIL’S ROAD 26th September 20242 |
5790 (3018) TWICE THE DANGER 26th September 2024 |
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THE
HOME OF HEROES |
THE GOLD COLLECTION |
FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE |
THE SILVER COLLECTION |
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Hunter was a
crackshot, a tough, well-trained sergeant. Bunter was lazy and afraid – a
useless soldier. From their first meeting, the two hated the sight of one
another. Not the makings of a
good team at all, but the day would come when each of them would have to
depend on the other – or die! |
In the dark,
dank jungles of Vietnam, danger was everywhere. But Sergeant Clint Bryden of
the American Forces was at home there – just like a beast of prey, revelling
in the shadows and cover. He became so good at this job
that before long, even those on his side began to walk in fear of the… Jungle
Killer. |
You won’t find
the name on any maps for this barren, mountainous region, but somehow the
Germans had learned about the narrow pass which the local Arabs called “The
Devil’s Road”. Now the enemy were about to put
their knowledge to lethal use and the two men who had stumbled on their
secret and might be able to stop them, were in big trouble – spiralling out
of control towards the ground in a badly-damaged aircraft… |
Captain Chris Blower and his
company of British paratroopers were assigned a dangerous mission in
enemy-occupied Sicily in 1943. As if that wasn’t enough, an
American colonel had got in on the act. A real-life film star with an
inflated sense of his own importance, he knew too much about future invasion
plans for his own good. So when he fell into enemy hands, Chris and his
men were suddenly faced with a mission that was doubly dangerous! |
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Author: Roger Sanderson |
Author:
Ian Clark |
Author:
David
Heptonstall |
Author:
Roger
Sanderson |
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Art: Manuel Benet Blanes |
Art: Manuel
Benet Blanes |
Art: Manuel
Benet Blanes |
Art: Manuel
Benet Blanes |
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Cover: Manuel Benet Blanes |
Cover:
Manuel Benet Blanes |
Cover:
Manuel Benet Blanes |
Cover:
Manuel Benet Blanes |
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5783 BAIT 12th
September 2024 |
5784 (836) NOTHING BUT TROUBLE! 12th September 20242 |
5785 LUCKY COIN 12th September 20242 |
5786 (1570) THE TREASURE OF DEVIL ISLAND 12th September 2024 |
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THE
HOME OF HEROES |
THE GOLD COLLECTION |
FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE |
THE SILVER COLLECTION |
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North Africa,
November 1942. During the aerial front of Operation Torch, an Allied pilot
and a Vichy pilot are forced down in a mountainous region of Algeria. Ready to continue the
battle hand to hand, they soon must put their differences aside, as they
discover they’ve landed slap bang in the hunting ground of a large pride of
Barbary lions. |
Private Andy
Rooney was a real bad lot – a skiver, a shirker, a nasty piece of work. And
when he became a glider pilot it was the same – wherever he went, he got into
hot water. With friend and foe alike, the
arrival of Andy meant.. Nothing but Trouble! |
In the year
1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie landed in Scotland to win back the British crown,
with the support of the Old Alliance. The French sent supplies and money to
aid their Scottish allies, and so began the last of the Jacobite rebellions. Centuries later, one coin was
in the hands of Bruce Niven, a SOE agent working with the French Resistance.
But would the French coin bring him luck – or would they both end up buried
in French soil? |
Not every desert island is a
paradise.. as the shipwrecked British sailors washed up on Tarotonga were
quick to find out. They’d barely dragged themselves ashore when an eerie
wailing echoed along the beach and chilled their blood. Someone or something seemed displeased at their
presence, and events began to take a more murderous course. As if that wasn’t
enough, the castaways also had to contend with some Japanese airmen who’d
crash-landed into the same path of trouble! |
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Author: James Moran |
Author:
D.C.T. Staff |
Author:
Ferg
Handley |
Author:
Cyril
G Walker |
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Art: Alberto Saichann |
Art: Ibanez |
Art: Vincent
Alcazar |
Art: Felix
Carrion |
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Cover: Simon Pritchard |
Cover:
Ian Kennedy |
Cover:
Marco Bianchini |
Cover:
Ron Brown |
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5779 PRESSURE POINT 29th August
2024 |
5780 (526/1603) OPERATION FIREBRAND! 29th August 2024 |
5781 BLOOD MONEY 29th August 2024 |
5782 (1622) THEY CALLED HIM TRAITOR 29th August 2024 |
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THE
HOME OF HEROES |
THE GOLD COLLECTION |
FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE |
THE SILVER COLLECTION |
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In the darkest days
of the Cold War, RAF interceptor crews lived on a knife-edge, knowing that
every alert could be the harbinger of nuclear Armageddon. Every day, they risk
their lives to meet the threat of Soviet attack – the intense pressure pushed
one beleaguered Lighting jet pilot beyond endurance towards a fatal
confrontation! |
The capture of
an important hostage can change the course of any battle. So imagine the
delight of the ragged bunch of Italian partisans who laid hands on Leutnant
Franz von Siegel, son of the dreaded Generalmajor von Siegel, Commanding
Officer of the most feared and hated Nazi regiment – the “Firebrand
Division”. And the Commando officer aiding the partisans was Lieutenant Bill
Ferguson, a two-fisted hero who had a big debt to settle with von Siegel. Now he really could get to work
on it. |
For mates Pete,
Tim, Gary and Winston, the end of the war was so close they could taste it…
but what was next? They had no money, no prospects – nothing to show for it
all when they got back to civvy street. That was, until a German prisoner
offered them a reward for aiding his escape… Hadn’t they
earned it? Why shouldn’t
they line their pockets and live cushy after the way, no matter what, or who,
the cost was? It was blood money, and they
didn’t care whose blood on their hands. |
When France was overrun and
occupied by the Germans in 1940, everyone had to come to terms with
situation. Most Frenchmen accepted the occupation, many fought with the
resistance, but some actively helped the Germans. Those people were collaborators, the worst kind
of traitor. Rene Latouche and his father were well known to be such men. But
as sometimes happens, things were not quite what they seemed… |
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Author: James Swallow |
Author:
A Carney Allan |
Author:
James
Moran |
Author:
Malcolm
McDevitt |
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Art: Esteve Polls |
Art: Gordon
Livingstone |
Art: Guille
Galeote |
Art: Ibanez |
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Cover: Keith Burns |
Cover:
Gordon Livingstone |
Cover:
Marco Bianchini |
Cover:
Jeff Bevan |
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5775 TWENTY-FIVE FLIGHTS! 15th August
2024 |
5776 (523/1596) THE NIGHT THE TOW ROPE BROKE 15th August 2024 |
5777 NO PASARAN! 15th August 2024 |
5778 (1616) ESCAPE TO FREEDOM 15th August 2024 |
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THE
HOME OF HEROES |
THE GOLD COLLECTION |
FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE |
THE SILVER COLLECTION |
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The B-17 Flying
Fortress bomber ‘High Guard’ had the best crew in the whole outfit. Through
the brutal anti-aircraft flak in the cold light of day they had flown
twenty-four missions into the heart of Germany together. If they could
complete their twenty-fifth flight it would end their tour of duty… But would
they survive it. |
The
night the tow rope broke was the worst in Lieutenant Mike Hastings’s life.
For when his glider crash-landed off target in Sicily, he was captured by a
Sicilian brigand called il Castello who dragged him off to a cave on the side
of Mount Etna, the largest volcano in Europe. And
there, Il Castello already held an Italian, a German, a Canadian and an
American – one man from each of the armies in Sicily who had ruined the
brigand’s old way of life. Now he was
ready to punish them… in his own cruel way. |
This is the
story of the heroic Spanish volunteers who fought for the Allies in World War
Two. After fighting for their homeland against Franco’s fascist Nationalists,
the defeated Republicans, including young anarchist Juan Lopez, fled to North
Africa where they eventually joined the Free French Forces. Together with the French, the
Spaniards were valiant in action – determined to fight the Nazi fascists
wherever they went! |
Sergeant Stan Boden and Private
Ernie Brigg’s were caught behind the advancing German armies in France during
1940. Stan reckoned that if they could fight their way through to Dunkirk
they would manage to escape to England. But not Ernie – all he wanted to do was
surrender! |
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Author: Andrew Knighton |
Author:
Skentleberry |
Author:
Ferg
Handley |
Author:
Malcolm
McDevitt |
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Art: Alberto Saichann |
Art: L. Rosell |
Art: Carlos Pino |
Art: Frederick
Alan Philpott |
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Cover: Marco Bianchini |
Cover:
Ian Kennedy |
Cover:
Carlos Pino |
Cover:
Ian Kennedy |
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© D. C. Thomson
& Co Ltd. |
Vic Whittle 2024 |
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