COMMANDO RECENT ISSUES

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

Updated: 21st November 2024

RECENT ISSUES WITH RELEASE DATES
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
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
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
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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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!
Author: James Moran	Author: D.C.T. Staff	Author: Ferg Handley	Author: Cyril G Walker
Art: Alberto Saichann	Art: Ibanez	Art: Vincent Alcazar	Art: Felix Carrion
Cover: Simon Pritchard	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Marco Bianchini	Cover: Ron Brown
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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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…
Author: James Swallow	Author: A Carney Allan	Author: James Moran	Author: Malcolm McDevitt
Art: Esteve Polls	Art: Gordon Livingstone	Art: Guille Galeote	Art: Ibanez
Cover: Keith Burns	Cover: Gordon Livingstone	Cover: Marco Bianchini	Cover: Jeff Bevan
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