COMMANDO RECENT ISSUES

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

Updated: 25th April 2024

RECENT ISSUES WITH RELEASE DATES
5739 KINGS AND ACES 11th April 2024	5740 (503/1452) THE BAMBOO CAGE 11th April 2024	5741 HIJACKED JEEPS! 11th April 2024	5742 (330/1035) BUTTERFIELD’S BATTLE 11th April 2024
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
All Maude Graham wanted was to help the Royal Flying Corps during the Great War. She was tired of the ammunition factories and knew she could make a difference. But when she arrives at the airfield with glowing references, all she is met with is laughter and prejudice. Well, she might be limited on the ground, but Maude knows the sky’s the limit!	To the crump of grenades and rattle of machine guns that echoed through the Burmese Jungle in World War Two, a new sound was added… the twang of bow and strings and the hiss of arrows flying through the air. And to the Japanese that sound brought terror. For it meant Captain David Heywood and his fierce Kachin tribesmen were on the warpath!	Ramsey’s Raiders: the ragtag group of mavericks on wheels! The mounted Special Rading Force were carnage on a chassis but what are the Raiders without their jeeps? Well they were about to find out as they returned from an ambush to find their jeeps missing in action!	An easy-going manner and interest in history, plus a name like Claude Butterfield… they don’t seem to add up to the stuff that heroes are made of, do they? But Claude could be as fierce as a tiger if something made him angry – and then whoever was responsible had better look out!
Author: Peter Hanninen	Author: Cyril G. Walker	Author: Ferg S. Handley	Author: Cyril G. Walker
Art: Marc Viure	Art: Victor de la Fuente	Art: Carlos Pino	Art: Gordon C. Livingstone
Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: Jordi Penalva	Cover: Carlos Pino	Cover: Ian Kennedy
5735 (72/539) SNIPER’S ISLAND 28th March 2024	5736 (139/719) KILLER CREW 28th March 2024	5737 (287/975) JET MENACE 28th March 2024	5738 (330/1035) BATTLE CRAZY 28th March 2024
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
Throughout the South Sea Islands he was known as ‘Big Alec’. Six feet three inches of bronzed, husky, Australian beach-comber, gold prospector and hunter. Big Alec roamed the islands in a tattered shirt, slacks and an old bush hat his only companion his big game rifle, with its deadly telescopic sight. Then came the Japanese, island-hopping their way to Australia, mowing down everything in their way – until they reached Big Alec’s Island. There they stopped dead – very dead – for Big Alec never missed…	When Major Tod Raike and his ‘Raiders’ went on the warpath in their high-speed armed jeeps, the best thing a Jerry could do was dig a quick hole in the sand and pull it in after him! What a bunch of blokes!	The Spits and the Hurris couldn’t get near the pilotless V1 flying bombs. So the Typhoons and the Tempests were rushed into the air. They did the job and were just getting their breath back when another menace appeared in the sky. A new jet, with a pilot this time. A plane they couldn’t touch, one that blasted them to pieces and then vanished without trace.	Pilot Officer Peter Culver flew his Hurricane slowly over a row of parked Me 109s, fired a short burst to let them know he was there, then circled over the Nazi air base, waiting. They’d be coming up for him soon, and the odds would be twenty to one. They would shoot him and his plane to pieces, and he didn’t care…
Author: Eric Hebden	Author: Eric Hebden	Author: Peter Newark	Author: Wilkinson
Art: Julio Medrano	Art: Victor de la Fuente	Art: Amador Garcia	Art: Ken Barr
Cover: Ken Barr	Cover: Ken Barr	Cover: Ken Barr	Cover: Ken Barr
5731 LEG BEFORE CHINDITS 14th March 2024	5732 (505/1460) HIDE AND SEEK 14th March 2024	5733 MAGIC MOMENT 14th March 2024	5734 (1566) FIGHTING FOOL! 14th March 2024
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
Major Charles Beevor thought his hope was all out as he led a depleted group of Chindits deep into the jungles of Burma. Surrounded by the Japanese and cut off from British lines, only the support of Subedar Singh and their mutual love of cricket could save the day. Together, they were out for six and would not stop until the Japanese threat was bowled over!	They called it “Monte Morte” – Mountain of Death. Dark and brooding, its mighty bulk towered over the plains of central Italy. It had claimed many lives over the years of peacetime, but that was nothing to what was to happen on its slopes when war came. And two men – one British, one Italian – joined forces to fight on this savage mountain against a common foe – Nazis! This is their brave story…	Egypt, 1942. While the battle for El Alamein raged, two magicians were locked in a battle of wits. On opposite sites of the war, they had been tasked with acts of deception – fooling the enemy with magical feats of misdirection. And now it was time for their next illusion… but which one of them would pull off the biggest magic trick of the Second World War?!	As a member of a group of hit-and-run raiders operating behind enemy lines, Corporal Mike Braddon knew a man needed strong nerves and raw courage to survive. But he also had the common sense to realise that charging blindly into battle wasn’t the answer. That’s where he disagreed with Private Joe Russel whose bull-at-the-gate attitude marked him down as a fighting fool – and a danger to all!
Author: T. Martin	Author: Cyril G. Walker	Author: Rossa McPhillips	Author: Malcolm McDevitt
Art: Marc Viure	Art: Jose de la Fuente	Art: Juan Fernadez	Art: Alan Philpott
Cover: Keith Burns	Cover: Jordi Penalva	Cover: Alejandro Perez Mesa	Cover: Jeff Bevan
5727 THE VIPER 29th February 2024	5728 (1407) A TIME FOR JUSTICE 29th February 2024	5729 BABA YAGA 29th February 2024	5730 (1472) BOYS’ WAR 29th February 2024
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
Bacuit Bay, Palawan Island, Philippines, 1944. Imelda Hernandez, nicknamed “The Viper” is a schoolteacher turned guerrilla-commander intent on annihilating the Japanese invasion with her bolo knife and lightning-fast strikes. When deserters of her guerrilla group are captured by the Japanese, Imelda must decide whether to continue on her warpath toward the Japanese soldiers who killed her friends or risk it all to sane the men who wouldn’t follow a vengeful woman.	The end was near for Bertrand Duval. Since the days of the French revolution, his family had wrongfully claimed inheritance of the Chateau de Lauronne, and the title and power that went with it. Now he had added another crime to his list… he had made friends with the German invaders of his country. But the French Resistance fighters were gathering strength. The time for justice was close.	Metal seared against metal, Tiger tanks burning bright in the glow of the inferno they spread over Europe. One soldier would face them, taking on the fiery demons. He needed help through, healed by a witch in the woods and given three tasks to complete. But could he trust this weapon whose house stood raised above the earth surrounded by skulls on stakes – one left empty for her next victim?	It was the summer of 1940 and the whole of France was thrown into utter confusion as the invading German troops advanced relentlessly leaving a trail of chaos and destruction behind them. Trapped amidst all this turmoil were two British schoolboys – John and Will Browning. Fending for themselves in a foreign country, they were trying desperately to make it back to British lines… before it was too late.
Author: Haley Austin	Author: Mary Feldwick	Author: Kate Dewar	Author: Mary Feldwick
Art: Paolo Ongaro	Art: Enriquez	Art: Carlos Pino	Art: Ruiz
Cover: Anna Morozova	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Carlos Pino	Cover: Ian Kennedy
5723 TOMASZ AND THE TOP-SECRET ENGINE 15th February 2024	5724 (517/1468) OPERATION CAVEMAN 15th February 2024	5725 MADAME REVENGER! 15th February 2024	5726 (1561) THE DESERT OF NO RETURN 15th February 2024
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
Tomasz Zielinski had escaped Poland and the German Blitzkrieg in 1939 by hopping aboard a Polish armoured train headed for safety. That was then, and now, in 1940, he was itching for action, but he and his division were in reserve in the west of France away from the fighting. That was until he was approached by a familiar face with a top-secret mission to head straight into danger to steal an engine right from under the Nazis’ noses! Tomasz was about to ride that train once again!	Like almost everybody else, Corporal Barney Newman didn’t know whether a stalactite grew up or if a stalagmite hung down. And to him it didn’t seem very important… until he found himself dodging about in an underground cavern with only stalactites and stalagmites between him and hot Nazi lead. But what was Barney, a tank driver, doing in this grotto? It was all part of… Operation Caveman.	The Nazis kicked the hornets’ nest the day they rolled into Collette Sauvage’s farm in France. Then they had really gone and done it when they strong-armed her off of her land, using her barn to store their ill-gotten goods. But with a little help from a downed RAF Airman, the Germans would rue the day they messed with the woman known as Madame Revenger!	Off they went on another mission, heading steadily into the burning wilderness of the North African desert. They had made many trips like this… but today was different because this time they had a spy in their midst, reporting their every move to the enemy. Hardly any of these brave men were going to come back again.
Author: Colin Maxwell	Author: A Carney Allan	Author: Heath Ackley	Author: Bernard Gregg
Art: Manuel Benet	Art: L S Lucas	Art: Alberto Navajo	Art: Carmona
Cover: Manuel Benet	Cover: Jordi Penalva	Cover: Anna Morozova	Cover: Ian Kennedy
5719 THE SPY OF SWESLIK CASTLE 1st February 2024	5720 (510/1483) ARCTIC ACE 1st February 2024	5721 ROLL DEPTH CHARGES! 1st February 2024	5722 (1552) BEHIND ENEMY LINES 1st February 2024
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
In the Bavarian mountains perched Sweslik Castle. In times past, the castle had been a monastery, but in 1943 it was an impregnable fortress which housed Allied prisoners of war. Its German guards claimed that any and all escape was impossible, and they were determined to keep it that way. For there was a spy among the POW’s imprisoned at Sweslik Castle… and no-one would escape until he was exposed!	The Fairey Swordfish wasn’t much to look at. Not many men would have chosen to risk their lives in those slow, obsolete kites that looked as if a sparrow could knock them out of the sky. But the Swordfish could carry a torpedo – evil, menacing, packed with high explosive. And with an ace like Sub Lieutenant Duncan Patne at the controls, the Swordfish could even become a match for a mighty German cruiser…	The HMAS Hibiscus had to be the worst Bathurst-class Corvette in the whole Royal Australian Navy. Its crew was slow and lacked discipline, and its officers weren’t much better. But they were in for a shock, for Commander Bill Turner had been sent in to straighten them out – and he didn’t care how many backs he had to break to do it!	How do invasions begin? Most people reckon they begin with a naval bombardment, massive air raids and soldiers wading ashore onto shell-torn beaches. But the truth is that before these things happen there are certain people, heroes, risking their lives behind enemy lines, secretly paving the way for the armies that will follow them…
Author: Rossa McPhillips	Author: R.A. Montague	Author: Brent Towns	Author: D.C.T Staff
Art: Vicente Alcazar	Art: Jose Maria Jorge	Art: Alejandro Perez Mesa	Art: Alejandro Martinez Ruiz
Cover: Marco Bianchini	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: K.C.G Walker
© D. C. Thomson & Co Ltd.		Vic Whittle 2024