Cruel seas and ghostly foes in latest issues of Commando

Commando 4727

 

Here’s the run down of the latest issues of DC Thomson’s Commando, on sale today in all good newsagents and digitally for iPad and iPhone.

Commando No 4727 – Fisherman’s Foes
Story: George Low Art: Jaume Forns Cover: Janek Matysiak
Preview: www.commandocomics.com/latest-issues/31st-july-2014-collection?issue=4727

Fishing, particularly deep-sea fishing, is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world for the sea is a harsh, cruel and unforgiving place to work. So the idea of strapping guns to a trawler and sending it to war might be expected to start a mutiny amongst any crew.

Not the bunch aboard the Amity, though. They were not only prepared for war, they went looking for it! And that’s when they found themselves facing a legion of… FISHERMEN’S FOES…

Commando 4728

 

Commando No 4728 – Ghost With A Gun
Originally Commando No 104 (February 1964), re-issued as No 611 (January 1972)
Story: Du Feu Art: Cueto Cover: Chaco
Preview: www.commandocomics.com/latest-issues/31st-july-2014-collection?issue=4728

Corporal Benny Walker’s name will never go down in history — but he was the leader of the strangest fighting patrol the British Army had ever known.

It was some patrol, that one!

Benny, six yanks and a couple of ghosts. Yes, the ghosts wore uniforms too — and didn’t they get mucked into the Germans!

“In the early days, all Commando stories were set in the Second World War,” notes editor Calum Laird of this re-presented story. “It wasn’t for nearly three decades that they branched out, historically speaking. The only way round this restriction was to introduce substantial flashbacks or to introduce some characters from previous battles. In this case, the introduced characters happen to be ghosts and they just happen to want to use our hero to wipe out the stains of their own misdeeds.

“For fear of spoilers I won’t say any more except that you can enjoy Chaco’s cover and Cueto’s inside art, reasonably safe in the knowledge that those are their real names. The name Du Feu has to be a nom-de-plume, though. Surely!”

Commando 4729

 

Commando No 4729 – Balkan Battleground
Story: Ferg Handley Art: Olivera Cover: Ian Kennedy
Preview: www.commandocomics.com/latest-issues/31st-july-2014-collection?issue=4729

Sergeant Pete Jenkins, a veteran Commando, was posted to Yugoslavia in the autumn of 1944. His mission was to assist and train a Partisan resistance group in their fight against the brutal occupying Nazis and their followers — a militia known as “The Black Wolves”.

But there was a snag, the enemy seemed to know the Partisans’ every move. There had to be a traitor in their midst. Everyone was under suspicion — Pete included.

Commando 4730

 

Commando No 4730 – The Little Ships
Originally Commando No 940 (June 1975), re-issued as No 2260 (March 1989)
Story: O’Connell Art: Gordon Livingstone Cover: Jeff Bevan
Preview: www.commandocomics.com/latest-issues/31st-july-2014-collection?issue=4730

Think of Britain’s fighting navy in the Second World War and you picture towering battleships, mammoth aircraft carriers, powerful cruisers, sleek destroyers. But alongside them are hosts of smaller craft, without whose efforts the mighty fleets could not operate. They are “the little ships” — trawlers, drifters, coastal craft of all kinds. They served on the seas of the world, and this is the story of just two of them…of the ice-cold courage of their crews.

“As the title suggests, this memorable maritime tale takes the focus away from sleek Royal Navy vessels and concentrates instead on rather less glamorous vessels,” explains Scott Montgomery,  Commando‘s Deputy Editor. “It’s a refreshing change and we get to see an authentically dangerous slice of life in the choppy North Sea.

“Veteran interior artist Gordon Livingstone delivers the goods as usual but special plaudits go to cover artist Jeff Bevan for his stunning trawler illustration — we can see the rust on the ship’s stern and even below the waterline as the trusty craft surges through the spray of the sea.”


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