This week’s Commando Comics include a murder mystery on the front lines of the Korean War, and a nerve-wracking tale from the skies of the Cold War during the same bitter conflict…
Issues 5991 – 5994 are on sale Thursday 10th September in surviving TG Jones and as digital editions through Amazon and Magzter – and, of course, on subscription from DC Thomson direct.
Just a reminder, too, that not content with publishing theese regular fortnightly sets, and the newly-released Commando Presents… Braddock Volume 2, three new “Commando Presents” collections are also available now – Commando Presents… The D-Day Files: Operation Overlord; The Dunkirk Diaries; and The Gurkha Diaries.
Commando 5991 (Home of Heroes): Murder on the 38th Parallel
Story: Dominic Teague | Internal Art: Giovanni Fabiano | Cover Art: Marco Bianchini
The devious Captain Jeff Webster thinks he’s gotten away with murder — after all, what’s one more fragged body on the battlefields of North Korea? But he didn’t count on a friendly, tenacious and infuriating military policeman to hound him at every turn. Maybe it’s not as easy as he expected to get away with… “Murder on the 38th Parallel”
Commando 5992 (Gold): Band of Heroes
Story: R A Montague | Internal Art: Fleming | Cover Art: Ian Kennedy
First published 1977 as No.1109
The two parachutists made their landing safely on the soil of Occupied France. Eagerly, they waited for the welcoming words from the French Resistance. But the first they heard were pure Cockney, and from a middle aged Englishman in First World War uniform!
That surprise was only the first of many when fighting alongside Jimmy Robinson and his tough bunch of veterans…
Commando 5993 (For Action and Adventure): Rules of Engagement
Story: Steve Taylor | Internal Art: Jaume Forns | Cover Art: Neil Roberts
In 1951, still bitter from missing action in World War Two, Flight Lieutenant Eric Hewson was flying Gloster Meteor F.8 jets over West Germany when the opportunity to finally see real action with the USAF in Korea arose. That was until the offer was given to his buddy, Flight Lieutenant Nick Greene.
When Greene returned to Germany, swaggering with combat stories, tensions rose between the men — but there were bigger threats in the skies than missed glory.
An intriguing aside: the cover features a Meteor F.III, not an F.8, the former the only Allied jet to see combat during World War Two, and this one is in WW2 markings.
Commando 5994 (Silver): The Tank-Men
Story: RA Montague | Internal Art: Gordon C Livingstone | Cover Art: Marco Bianchini
First published 1980 as No. 1390
Sergeant Fred Manning was no stranger to action, and when he was posted to command a Sherman tank in the Allied advance through Germany, he thought his previous experiences would stand him in good stead. But all his fighting had taken place in the battles which had raged across the deserts of North Africa. He would soon learn that this was to be a very different kind of war…
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Commando Issues 5991 – 5994 Cover Gallery
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Not content with publishing theese regular fortnightly sets, and the newly-released Commando Presents… Braddock Volume 2, three new “Commando Presents” collections are also available now – Commando Presents… The D-Day Files: Operation Overlord; The Dunkirk Diaries; and The Gurkha Diaries.
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Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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