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Iron Man artist Kev Hopgood re-enlisted to Commando Comics

By John Freeman on January 5, 2026 • ( 0 )

Four Commando comics slipped out under the radar over New Year, Issues 5919 – 5921 on sale now in TG Jones, WHSmith Travel, other select newsagents – and as digital editions through Magzter.

They include two new titles: an all-new “Braddock” story, “Flying Tigers” with absolutely superb art from Manuel Benet, set in war torn Burma, Ferg Handley delivering a tale with action aplenty; and a story drawn by Iron Man artist Kev Hopgood, who provided the art on Commando 5839 back in March last year.

Kev provides art ion a World War One detective story set in the trenches of the Western Front, where British soldiers aren’t victim to German fire, but someone on their own side – whose nasty work may yet put many more lives in peril! A bizarre scattering of “lumme” and “egad” aside, it’s an enjoyable mystery.

Commando 5919 (Home of Heroes): Braddock: The Flying Tigers
Writer: Ferg Handley | Artist and Cover Artist: Manuel Benet

Commando 5919: Braddock: The Flying Tigers Writer: Ferg Handley | Artist and Cover Artist: Manuel Benet

Back for a new adventure, Ace pilot Matt Braddock and his navigator George Bourne are heading east to meet up with the famous Flying Tigers of the American Volunteer Group in Burma.

Commando 5920 (Gold Collection): The Pirates of Sub 13
Writer: Eric Hebden | Artist and Cover Artist: Gordon C. Livingstone
First published as Commando No. 596 (1971) and 1676 (1983)

Commando 5920: The Pirates of Sub 13 Writer: Eric Hebden | Artist and Cover Artist: Gordon C. Livingstone First published as Commando No. 596 (1971) and 1676 (1983)

Lieutenant Roddy MacNab was determined that this patrol would be a success. In Japanese waters, he had a leaky, old bucket of a submarine and a crew of ruffians on the brink of mutiny. How could he lose?

Commando 5921 (Action Adventure): Murder in No Man’s Land
Writer: David Thomas | Artist and Cover Artist: Kev Hopgood

Commando 5921: Murder in No Man’s Land Writer: David Thomas | Artist and Cover Artist: Kev Hopgood

Two bodies, both shot in the back at close enough range to leave burn marks on their clothing. Both men had been found dead in no man’s land — each with a mysterious map… Just what had Private Arthur Jones stumbled on to?

Commando 5922 (Silver Collection): Delayed Action
Writer: CG Walker | Artist Dennis McLoughlin | Cover Artist: Ian Kennedy
First published as Commando No. 1854 (1984)

Commando 5922: Delayed Action Writer: CG Walker | Artist Dennis McLoughlin | Cover Artist: Ian Kennedy First published as Commando No. 1854 (1984)

Long ago, a French carpenter set a deadly booby-trap for a cruel nobleman, but fate intervened and both men died before the trap could be sprung. No-one knew of it, and so it lay, silent and invisible, waiting for its first victim…

• If there’s a past Commando comic you would like to see reprinted, contact the team via generalenquiries@commandomag.com

Commando Comics 5919 – 5922 Cover Gallery

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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.