COMMANDO RECENT ISSUES

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

Updated: 19th March 2020

5311 TANK WIFE March 2nd 2020	5312 (489/1436) ACES WILD March 2nd 2020	5313 IRON RESISTANCE March 2nd 2020	5314 (1719) A MAN NEEDS LUCK March 2nd 2020
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
“My husband was killed defending the Motherland. I decided I wanted to personally take revenge on the fascist dogs for his death. I won’t stop until every German in Russia has tasted every ounce of my anger… sometimes I’m so angry I can’t even breathe.” The driver of a T-34 tank named ‘Wife’ was no ordinary driver, she was a woman scorned and hell awaited any Nazi who stood in her tank’s path.	It was a sad day for Clive Shaw when he learned that his older brother, Mike, had been shot down in his Spitfire over France. But it also made Clive all the more determined to be a pilot and become a great ace himself – the finest fighter in the RAF! It was a great day when, at last, he jammed himself into the cockpit of his own Spitfire, his thumb itching to press that deadly gun button for the first time.	Women in the French Resistance played a vital role in fighting back against their Nazi invaders. For many, the biggest role they could play was in sabotage… Michelle Peel was one such woman, and with a basket full of explosives and the help of some friends she would attempt to take down a vital Nazi rail line that could help turn the tide in the liberation of France – that, or she’d die trying.	When the bullets start to fly a man needs to be very quick or very fortunate if he’s going to get out of the way. Peter Reed reckoned he was one of the fortunate ones – after all, the lucky charm he carried in his pocket had seen him safely through a lot of hard fighting in the desert with both the Foreign Legion and the British Army. But now it faces its toughest test of all as Peter finds himself behind enemy lines and surrounded by itchy trigger-fingers.
Author: Georgia Standen Battle	Author: Mary Feldwick	Author: Hailey Austin	Author: Garbutt
Art: Manuel Benet	Art: Jose Maria Jorge	Art: Jaume Forns	Art: Felix Carrion
Cover: Manuel Benet	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: Ian Kennedy
5307 STEALING STUKAS February 20th 2020	5308 (680) ENEMY IN DISGUISE February 20th 2020	5309 RED SNOW February 20th 2020	5310 (1505) THE FACE OF COURAGE February 20th 2020
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
RAF intelligence officer Ian Thompson has his eyes on the prize, and, thanks to arrogant toff Sam Westwell, he now has everything he needs to get it! If only he wasn’t being blackmailed and didn’t have an errant German artist to keep an eye on. But it’s all in a day’s work when you’re… Stealing Stukas.	The Lancaster gunner gave a friendly wave to the approaching American Thunderbolt. It was great to have these powerful, heavily-armed fighters on his side, he reckoned. Then his grin vanished as the Thunderbolt hurtled towards him in an attacking dive, its guns blazing. He wasn’t to know that the Thunderbolt belonged to a special force whose job was to spread terror and confusion… among the Allies!	Just outside the beleaguered city of Stalingrad, German and Russian soldiers were trapped by a blizzard on the steppes. As the bitter cold gnawed at their bones, each man wished to be away from the freezing, howling winds. But the cold wasn’t the only thing out in the dark wasteland as bloody pawprints tracked through the snow.	Courage and plenty of it – that’s what a soldier needs in wartime. But in the North African desert during the Second World War, it wasn’t only regular troops who were caught up in the fighting. There were many civilians and tribesmen there too. And one such tribe, with the help of some British soldiers and an archaeologist, was destined to play a big part in thwarting the Nazi advance.
Author: Andrew Knighton	Author: Cyril G. Walker	Author: Jason Cobley	Author: Cyril G. Walker
Art: Muller & Klacik	Art: Gordon C. Livingstone	Art: Morhain & Defeo	Art: Gordon C. Livingstone
Cover: Keith Burns	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: Ian Kennedy
5303 STAN’S WAR February 6th 2020	5304 (676) ACTION STATIONS! February 6th 2020	5305 SUPERTANK February 6th 2020	5306 (1496) THE UNKNOWN ENEMY February 6th 2020
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
Stanislaw Kowalski pulsed with anger. He was kicked out of his country, sent running to France before entering the British Army. But the furious Pole was burning to get into the fight and kick the Nazis right in their crooked teeth. Not even joining the fearsome Commandos could quench his thirst for vengeance. Stan’s war was only just beginning, but were the Nazis ready for the Polish fighting fury?	Attacked from below, from the surface, from the air – the corvette Nimbus had a rough time on the winter convoy in the North Atlantic. Ned Black was a young sub-lieutenant on that little ship. He didn’t know he was going to finish up commander of a vitally important tanker – and a hero as well!	Weighing over a thousand tonnes, measuring one-hundred and fifteen feet long, and thirty-six feet high with the kind of artillery armament that would shame a battleship, the Landkreuzer P.1000 Ratte was a warship built for land. It was the Nazis’ latest super weapon, and in the aftermath of D-Day it would decimate the Allies. That is, unless three British tankies armed only with their wits can somehow stop this… Supertank.	Stranded in dangerous territory with no transport and only a corporal to help him protect a very important British colonel Lieutenant Tom Gifford knew he had a tough job on his hands. But then a half-track packed with American troops hoved into view and it seemed their troubles were all over. Which is exactly what they were supposed to think… for some very sinister reasons!
Author: Calum Laird	Author: R.A. Montague	Author: Iain McLaughlin	Author: D.C Staff
Art: Morhain & Defeo	Art: A.C. Kennedy	Art: Khato	Art: F.A. Philpott
Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: Ian Kennedy
5299 SLADEN’S PROMISE January 23rd 2020	5300 (701) BATTLEGROUND January 23rd 2020	5301 1066 January 23rd 2020	5302 (1478/2819) TARGET - CRETE! January 23rd 2020
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
The friendship between a butler, Anthony Sladen, and his master, Lord Jeffrey Mortimer, had stood the test of time and the length of two wars, but a deep resentment had festered because of it. Mortimer’s son, Sebastian, despised Sladen. But Sladen had made a promise, one he would rather die than break.	Take a look at these warriors below. Quite a bunch aren’t they? Shirkers, deadbeats, men too old and boys too young to fight. Those were the types Lieutenant Dave Manning was ordered to take back to the base areas, away from the fighting line. But Dave had other ideas about what he’d do with these men of his. He never told anyone about them – but people found out pretty quick. First to find out were the Nazis… and they didn’t like it one little bit!	Young Durwin has been given the highest honour a young man can receive – to become Housecarl for his Earl, Harold Godwinson. But with the death of king Edward and the right of succession disputed, can Durwin continue to swear fealty to a man who goes back on his word? In a game of kings, bloody battles present difficult choices for a fighting man.	The island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea has its fair share of ancient legends. The most famous and terrifying of these is about the Minotaur, a creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull. By the time of the Second World War such a story was laughed at – but two Englishmen on the run from German paratroopers were not at all sure there wasn’t a lot of truth in it!
Author: Dominic Teague	Author: Douglas Leach	Author: Andrew Knighton	Author: R.A. Montague
Art: Morhain & Defeo	Art: Cecil T. Rigby	Art: Klacik & Muller	Art: Gordon C Livingstone
Cover: Keith Burns	Cover: AC Kennedy	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Ian Kennedy
5295 RAMREE MASSACRE January 9th 2020	5296 (678) THE BAYONET FIGHTERS January 9th 2020	5297 FOG OF WAR January 9th 2020	5298 (1477) COWARD’S BATTLE January 9th 2020
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
Nearly one thousand men went into the mangrove swamps on Ramree Island – but how many would make it out? Everything on Ramree wanted the Japanese garrison dead. British soldiers, Indian soldiers, tropical diseases, poisonous spiders, deadly pythons, and most terrifying of all, saltwater crocodiles!	When a man has served for five years in the Foreign Legion you can reckon he knows a thing or two about fighting. Dirk Lassiter had come through many a savage battle, but the grimmest fight of his whole life was against a man who knew just as much as he did – another Legionnaire!	The last place Private Bill Tasker expected to find himself on his new deployment was at sea – surely that was for the Navy boys? Yet there he was on the top-secret Blackland Sands sea fort, defending the Thames Estuary from V1 bombs and E-boats. But now it’s thick with fog, he’s lost his pals and a sinister German commando team is hunting him down – would it be the end of his military career?	The German troops rushed into view just as the Fairey Battle was taking off. Immediately they fired at the aircraft desperate to prevent its escape. With bullets flying all around him, this would be the supreme test of the pilot’s nerve… but the man behind the controls was a self-confessed coward who had run from enemy bullets before. What would he do now?
Author: Kate Dewar	Author: Eric (Noel) Hebden	Author: James Swallow	Author: Cyril G. Walker
Art: Vicente Alcazar	Art: R. Franch	Art: Khato	Art: Luis Salmeron
Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: Jordi Penalva	Cover: Keith Burns	Cover: Mike Cox
© D. C. Thomson & Co Ltd.		Vic Whittle 2020