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Thursday, April 11, 2024

Commando 5739-5742

Commando issues 5739-5742 are on sale from today, Thursday 11th April, 2024, featuring aerial hi-jinks and jeep hijacks!

5739: King and Aces

All Maude Graham wanted was to help the Royal Flying Corps during the Great War. She was tired of the ammunition factories and knew she could make a difference.
But when she arrives at the airfield with glowing references, all she is met with is laughter and prejudice. Well, she might be limited on the ground, but Maude knows the
sky’s the limit!
Commando welcomes brand-new writer Petri Hanninen with his first tale in Issue 5739. With a little help from newcomer interior artist, Marc Viure, Hanninen weaves a wonder of a World War One story with a twist!

Story: Petri Hanninen
Art: Marc Viure
Cover: Neil Roberts

5740: The Bamboo Cage

To the crump of grenades and rattle of machine guns that echoed through the Burmese jungle in World War Two, a new sound was added... the twang of bow strings and the hiss of arrows flying through the air. And to the Japanese that sound brought terror. It meant Captain David Heywood and his fierce Kachin tribesmen were on the warpath!
Classic Commando incoming! CG Walker’s great yarn is deep in the thick jungle in Burma, with magnificent artwork from Victor de la Fuente and Jordi Penalva.

Story: CG Walker
Art: V Fuente
Cover: Penalva
First Published 1970 as Issue 503

5741: Ramsey’s Raiders: Hijacked Jeeps!

Ramsey’s Raiders: the ragtag group of mavericks on wheels! The mounted Special Raiding Force were carnage on a chassis but what are the Raiders without their jeeps?
Well they were about to find out as they returned from an ambush to find their jeeps missing in action!
Ferg Handley’s rag-tag group of high-risk mavericks return in a brand-new adventure! This time the wheeled menaces are taken off the road when their jeeps are hijacked! Will the raiders recover — or will they be infantry from now on?!

Story: Ferg Handley
Art: Carlos Pino
Cover: Carlos Pino

5742: Butterfield’s Battle

An easy-going manner and interest in history, plus a name like Claude Butterfield... they don’t seem to add up to the stuff that heroes are made of, do they?
But Claude could be as fierce as a tiger if something made him angry — and then whoever was responsible had better look out!
Don't be fooled by this light and calm Ian Kennedy cover — for inside this Commando is a tiger of a story by CG Walker, full of hot-blooded action and adventure brought to life by Gordon C Livingstone!

Story: CG Walker
Art: Gordon C Livingstone
Cover: Ian Kennedy
First Published 1981 as Issue 1568