Here’s the details for DC Thomson’s Commando Issues 4739-4742, on sale from Thursday (11th September 2014) through newsagents, by subscription and for digital devices. Along with the usual full-length comic stories, Issue 4739 offers the chance to win a copy of… Read More ›
Twenty-five years ago Commando published an issue entitled “Roll Of Honour” featuring a cover by artist Ian Kennedy. To celebrate the 65th anniversary of D-Day in 2009, Carlton Books released the then latest of their Commando reprint books entitled D-Day:… Read More ›
It has been a while since we have had a Tube Surf so… The Phoenix had a bumpier than expected take-off when their distribution deal through Waitrose supermarkets left many potential readers puzzled when no Waitrose had copies of the… Read More ›
It has been a while since we did a Commando Webbing and there is rather a lot to get through… Two weeks ago DC Thomson’s Dundee Courier ran an interview with Commando cover artist Ian Kennedy on his long career… Read More ›
Carlton’s seventh and latest Commando reprint book Battle Of Britain: Scramble!, with its air combat theme, is being promoted in the RAF’s newspaper the RAF News. Commando editor Calum Laird is interviewed in the newspaper where he talks about the… Read More ›
(With thanks to Jeremy Briggs): DC Thomson’s official Commando web site has been updated again with another free to read strip and more giveaways to promote the popular digest title. Our sources at DC Thomson indicate the Commando web site… Read More ›
(Report originally posted by Richard Sheaf) Two of Carlton’s Commando collections currently available have now been produced in alternative covers by Ian Kennedy. Fetaured here are the two Anzacs at War and the True Brit covers… There’s also a new… Read More ›
This month sees a major change at DC Thomson with the retirement of long-serving but, perhaps, little-known editor of Commando George Low, who joined the company from school in 1963 and has worked on the digest title ever since. downthetubes caught up… Read More ›
An online petition has been set up to encourage Carlton Books to produce a Captain Scarlet version of Thunderbirds Classic Comic Strips. You can sign this petition at: www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/scarlet_strips/ • More details of the Thunderbirds Classic Comic Strips can be found… Read More ›