This year’s VE Day – always a special day here at Commando – marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe. To celebrate, we’ve got some extra special VE Day themed issues full of the usual action and derring-do you’ve come to expect! Issues 5851-5854 will go on sale from today, Thursday 8th May 2025!
5851 War-Torn!
In 1939, war was declared, sparking six years of devastation known as World War Two. Two brothers, Michel and Hans Weber were torn apart by the conflict — separated and on opposite sides of the fighting, with one in Germany and the other in Canada. They had started the war as brothers — would they end it as enemies, or could their bond survive?
Here's an issue that takes the concept of sibling rivalry to extremes! Think the argument over who gets the top bunk times a million - here’s hoping they can put their differences aside before Sunday lunch at mum’s.
Story: Ferg Handley
Art: Jaume Forns
Cover: Keith Burns
5852 The Last Days of the War
A Wehrmacht captain, a German scientist and an RAF pilot. This unlikely combination was thrown together in the crumbling ruins of a defeated Germany by a common aim — survival.
If they could get to Allied territory, they’d be safe. But with vengeful SS men hot on their heels, their chances were very slim.
Germany in the final days of WW2 is always fertile ground for storytelling. The uncertainty, the conflict, the evocative war-torn landscapes, it’s all here in this outstanding story from CG Walker!
Story: CG Walker
Art: Nebot
Cover: Jeff Bevan
First Published 1984 as No. 1854
5853 For You the War is Over
Germany, 1945. The end of the war is near. Commando Sergeant Alfred Millin and his comrades are forced to battle their way through what remains of the bitter German forces. Millin worries what awaits him when the fighting is over — will he be pulled back into his criminal past?
Andrew Knighton’s brilliant script explores the difficult prospect of returning to life after war, and why that might not be so thrilling an idea for some. The legendary Mike Donaldson, of The Broons and Oor Wullie fame, does a stellar job with interior and exterior art in his Commando debut!
Story: Andrew Knighton
Art: Mike Donaldson
Cover: Mike Donaldson
5854 Steer for Action
From the first day of war in 1939, the soldiers, sailors and airmen of the countries opposed to Hitler’s Germany knew that it would be a long, bloody struggle before the Nazis were toppled to defeat. They couldn’t know then that the day of victory would come in May 1945, and for those six years of savage war, Clive Sterling, Royal Navy, would sail hostile seas and face deadly danger almost every day in that fight for freedom.
We’re taking to the hostile seas to face deadly danger in this final issue of our special VE Day set! With both cover and interior art from Gordon C Livingstone and an outstanding script by Ian Clark, it’s definitely not one to miss.
Story: Ian Clark
Art: Gordon C Livingstone
Cover: Gordon C Livingstone
First published 1995 as No. 2857
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