COMMANDO RECENT ISSUES

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

Updated: 19th December 2024

RECENT ISSUES WITH RELEASE DATES
5807 SMALL BUT MIGHTY! 5th December 2024	5808 (845) TEN TOUGH PARATROOPERS 5th December 2024	5809 POLISH PARAS 5th December 2024	5810 (1631/5402) DESERT MYSTERY 5th December 2024
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The siege of Malta lasted from 1940 to 1942, making the small island the most bombed place on earth during World War Two. But its people were resilient and strong – they weren’t going to take it lying down! Maltese Private George Abela was an artillery gunner on Fort St Elmo and he might have stood at a diminutive five foot two but he was tough! Yes, George might have been small but he was mighty! And he was about to stop an audacious Italian plan to destroy the Grand Harbour!	Count them, Ten men, each one tougher than the last, setting out on a mission more dangerous than anything they had tackled before. Yes, ten were setting out, but only one would be coming back…	Operation Market Garden, 1944. The brave men of 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade jumped out of their transports above Arnhem, ready for red-hot action. Thousands of parachutes opened and floated through the skies with men who only had one thing on their mind, “finally, we can get back at the Nazis!” Among their number was Lieutenant Stefan Kapek, who was the Polish Para with the most to prove!	The German officer had been prepared to see a mirage or two in the desert, and he’d expected something along the lines of Arab tribesmen and palm trees. But now he was seeing a giant dinosaur lumbering straight towards him! He couldn’t believe his eyes, but the way the monster snapped its slavering jaws soon convinced him it was real. He and his men turned and ran for their lives. It was a mystery all right, but as far as they were concerned, somebody else could solve it!
Author: Frank Buhagiar	Author: Bernard Gregg	Author: Ferg Handley	Author: Bryan Perrett
Art: Esteve Polls	Art: Pat Wright	Art: Marc Viure	Art: Gordon Checkley Livingstone
Cover: Keith Burns	Cover: Keith C.G. Walker	Cover: Simon Pritchard	Cover: Keith C.G. Walker
5803 CODENAME WARLORD – HIT PIECE 21st November 2024	5804 (534/1563) THE SPY THAT NEVER WAS 21st November 2024	5805 TOMASZ AND THE RETURN JOURNEY 21st November 2024	5806 (1632) THE CAVES OF HERCULES 21st November 2024
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Lord Peter Flint – otherwise known as codename: Warlord – always relied on his cowardly persona to ensure no-one suspected him of being one of Britain’s top secret agents! So when a society journalist tried to write a character assassination hit piece on him, that was the least of Flint’s worries. His top priority was stopping a cell of hitmen from completing an actual assassination plot and halting the Italian invasion of Monte Carlo at the same time! It’s all in a day’s work for Warlord!	When you find two men, one unconscious, handcuffed together and in the middle of the desert, you want to know what’s going on. And when one says he’s a Military Police Sergeant taking a suspected spy to stand trial, it sounds as a fair enough answer. But when the other guy tells you that the Sergeant is really the spy – which do you believe? That was the question facing Corporal Jack Wills – and an awful lot of men’s lives depended on him getting the right answer.	Scotland, 1940. Polish corporal, Tomasz Zielinski, has never been one to suffer bullies lightly. Now though, his hot-headedness has landed him in a glasshouse. When a mysterious message arrives in his cell, an opportunity for freedom arises. Little does Tomasz know, his superiors have mush bigger plans for him. His skills as a soldier are needed elsewhere. The time has come for him to return home.	On the island of Sicily, there was a secret cave – the Cave of Hercules. Hidden for centuries, it was rumoured to contain treasure beyond price. And now one man, Horace Gee, had cracked the ancient clues and worked out just exactly where it must be. But there was one big snag – the cave was in enemy-held territory and Horace was a sailor, unlikely to go ashore with the troops. However, where a chap like Horace was concerned you could never be sure what was going to happen next!
Author: Dominic Teague	Author: Skentleberry	Author: Colin Maxwell	Author: Roger Sanderson
Art: Carlos Pino	Art: Adolfo Usero	Art: Manuel Benet Blanes	Art: Felix Carrion
Cover: Carlos Pino	Cover: Jordi Bosch Penalva	Cover: Manuel Benet Blanes	Cover: Jeff Bevan
5799 EAGLE-EYED CADMAN 7th November 2024	5800 (533/1516) CANNONBALL CASEY 7th November 2024	5801 HOLD UNTIL RELIEVED 7th November 2024	5802 (1634) WINNERS LOSERS 7th November 2024
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The Western Front, January 1915. When Lieutenant Gerald Cadman claims the credit for Private Tom Smith’s perfect shot, it creates a chance for him to escape the trenches and become a sniper. Earning glory while hiding never getting close to the enemy? It sounds just like the kind of fighting Cadman can get behind! But the life of a marksman proves more difficult and dangerous than Cadman could have ever expected!	Meet Private Casey, the biggest scrounger in the army. He’d pinch anything unless it was nailed down – and while he was at it he let the other guys get on with the fighting. The exact opposite of a hero, that was Private Casey. So how come a guy like that managed to win a medal for bravery?	Major John Lloyd read the message handed to him by the dispatch rider with his heart in his throat. His orders were to defend the strategic village of Verrain, with only his inept Lieutenant Gordon Foreman and a handful of men in newly constructed pillboxes. They were hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned. But he had his orders to ‘hold until relieved’ and against the odds they were going to.	Karl Von Hessler always had to win. A trophy held aloft or medal on his chest were prizes worth any sacrifice. His brother Ulrich had different rules. During the First World War, he’d sickened of the killing and vowed never to wear a uniform, instead he’d turned to medicine and the fight against death. But in 1939, war returned and sought Ulrich out in the shape of his hated brother. He knew then that he had one last duty to perform in German uniform – a duty far different from anything Karl could suspect.
Author: Andrew Knighton	Author: Chris Fitzsimmons	Author: Stephen Hume	Author: Cyril G. Walker
Art: Mike Dorey	Art: José Aguila	Art: Jaume Forns	Art: Jamie Blasco Romero
Cover: Mike Dorey	Cover: Jordi Penalva	Cover: Marco Bianchini	Cover: Ian Kennedy
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 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!
Author: Daniel McCachey	Author: A Carney Allan	Author: Georgia Standen Battle	Author: Alan Lomas
Art: Juan Fernandez	Art: Gordon Livingstone	Art: Various	Art: Rafael Boluda
Cover: Marco Bianchini	Cover: Gordon Livingstone	Cover: Manuel Benet	Cover: Ian Kennedy
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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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.
Author: Georgia Standen Battle	Author: Gardner	Author: Kate Dewar	Author: Chris Fitzsimmons
Art: Jaume Forns	Art: Peter Ford	Art: Carlos Pino	Art: Gonzalez
Cover: Marco Bianchini	Cover: Ken Barr	Cover: Carlos Pino	Cover: Ian Kennedy
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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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!
Author: Roger Sanderson	Author: Ian Clark	Author: David Heptonstall	Author: Roger Sanderson
Art: Manuel Benet Blanes	Art: Manuel Benet Blanes	Art: Manuel Benet Blanes	Art: Manuel Benet Blanes
Cover: Manuel Benet Blanes	Cover: Manuel Benet Blanes	Cover: Manuel Benet Blanes	Cover: Manuel Benet Blanes
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