As Commando storms toward the release of its milestone 6000th issue next month, DC Thomson are bringing readers a special set of previous landmark editions this week, ahead of four all-new adventures next set, as we previously reported.
Commando Issues 5995 to 5998 are on sale this Thursday, 24th September, from surviving TG Jones and as digital editions through Amazon and Magzter – and, of course, on subscription from DC Thomson direct.
Plus, don’t miss out on a number of Commando Presents… collections, out now: read our items on The Vietnam Files, and three more Commando Presents collections releases!
Commando 5995 (Home of Heroes): Traitor From The Sky
Story: O’Connell | Internal Art: Mira | Cover Art: Ian Kennedy
First published 1976 as No. 1000
High over Austria, four men swung silently on their parachutes, tense and nervous. Already the operation was going wrong – their Dakota, hit by enemy fighters, was plunging in flames to the ground. They had only gotten out by the skin of their teeth, and now they were miles from their objective. Yes, they had problems.
And they had one other big problem too. Although three of them didn’t know it, the fourth man was an enemy agent.
Commando 5996 (Gold): Take Your Chance!
Story: Bernard Gregg | Internal Art: Blasco | Cover Art: Jeff Bevan
First published 1986 as No. 2000
Be alert. Be ready for action. If a chance comes, take it! That’s how you survive in times of war.
More than once, Joe Carter had been in a seemingly hopeless situation. Each time, by sheer luck, he’d made it. But this time it looked really bad. He’d been captured by the Germans and was to play a vital role in a Nazi plot – as a dead man!
Commando 5997 (For Action and Adventure): Deadly Deal
Story: C. G. Walker | Internal Art: Vila | Cover Art: Phil Gasgoine
First published 1996 as No. 3000
Many centuries before the Second World War rocked Italy, an evil man made a deadly deal to protect his vast wealth… a deal, some said, with the devil himself.
And, now, as the Allied armies fought their way up through Italy in 1944, another man – a British lieutenant – was being forced to make his own deadly deal in an attempt to buy bravery.
These two men had nothing else in common, but their fate was to be linked in an eerie, startling way…
Commando 5998 (Silver): Aces All!
Story: F. S. Handley | Internal Art and Cover: Jose Maria Jorge
First published 2007 as No. 4000
In 1963, four Allied airmen from the Second World War meet at a funeral in Los Angeles. They don’t know each other, but each man knew the deceased – Czechoslovakian ace Franz Nekovar.
None of the men remembered Franz fondly – he may have been a damned fine pilot, deadly and skilled, but he was a maverick, and his disregard for the rules turned his peers against him. Just what were their vendettas… Find out in this representation of Commando’s 4000th issue!
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Commando Issues 5995 – 5998 Cover Gallery
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Coming Soon… Commando 6000
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