Back in 2022, DC Thomson published Commando Presents… The Sci-Fi Files Volume 1 as a digital collection, representing four SciFi-skewed stories from Commando comics. Slipping under our radar, we’ve just spotted a print edition out in the wild, currently only available from AmazonUK.
Released in August, this edition should please fans asking for a print version when the Commando team promote the electronic version, as they did on Facebook and on X last week.
Commando Presents… The Sci-Fi Files Volume 1, available in print here, offers four science fiction comics from a galaxy’s worth of adventure in black and white art. From time travel to giant bugs, this out‑of‑this‑world selection of comics is sure to send your imagination into space!
A spaceman came travelling to World War Two in a classic tale from 1971 – #577 “Soldier from Space”! Move over Ming the Merciless, as a man from 3000AD travels through space and time to enlist troops to fight in a cataclysmic future war!
Let’s do the time warp again in the second 1970s issue, #1294 “Time-Warp Warrior”! Another man from another world, a future world, Cam travels to the past to stop an adversary hell-bent on the total destruction of the planet!
Then, enjoy two modern Commando adventures, starting with #5331 “Flight from Tomorrow”! Amid the turmoil of the Dunkirk evacuations, Arthur C Clarke award-winning writer Adrian Tchaikovsky’s script sees a group of refugees being aided by the British soldiers on the retreat — only these refugees aren’t trying to escape to a different place — but a different time!
Finally, giant creepy-crawlies are on the prowl in #5477 “Bug Attack”… When a fracking operation in rural Colorado unleashes a hoard of mammoth, killer insects, the US military is ready to nuke the suckers… but it’s a race against time to save the scientists stuck in the hive!
Also included is a cover gallery, featuring the original artwork for each issue.
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
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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