This week's action-packed Commando set features a brand-new Rayker story and a deadly battle between a Churchill and a Tiger I tank in the unforgiving North African Desert. Issues 5967-5970 are on sale today. Thursday 18th June.
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5967: Rayker: Back in The Ranks
Sergeant Moses Rayker, a black man in a white man’s army, fights two wars: one against the Germans and another against racism within the segregated American military.
After extreme losses during the German surprise attack in the Ardennes, General John Lee asks for something new from Santa — Infantry volunteers. Race isn’t important, he says, but anyone who joins needs to be a private or PFC.
It took Rayker five years to earn his stripes, but those guys need a leader, and to be one, he’ll need to be… Back in The Ranks!
Story: Simon Topping
Internal Art: Mike Dorey
Cover Art: Mike Dorey & Grant Wood
5968: Dive After Dark
There wasn’t a bomber squadron in North Africa that could outfly the Fleet Air Arm outfit who called themselves “Buckley’s Bats”. Every pilot was an ace and every navigator could find his way across the desert blindfolded.
And the planes these supermen flew? Well, they were Fairey Albacores — cumbersome biplanes with a top speed of only 160 mph. Nobody, no matter how good, could win a war flying kites like that… or could they?
Story: Brunt
Internal Art: Mira
Cover Art: Ian Kennedy
First published 1972 as No.616
5969: Desert Duel
North Africa, early 1943. Following a raid on a German outpost, the crew of a Churchill tank nicknamed Lancelot find themselves isolated in the desert. Damaged and relentlessly pursued by a Tiger I tank, their attempt to rejoin their formation turns into a life-or-death struggle against the German tank, and eventually between the commanders of the two crews. As vultures circle overhead, this can only end in a… Desert Duel.
Story: Andrew Knighton
Internal Art: Carlos Pino
Cover Art: Keith Burns
5970: The Sleeping Tiger
All his life, Jim Slater had been able to sleep anywhere at any time – at home, at school, even at work. If he had the chance to nod off, he took it, and was soon dozing. Well, tigers like to catnap too, don’t they? And that’s what Jim turned out to be – a sleeping tiger.
Story & Internal Art: Anglo
Cover Art: Philpott
First published 1985 as No. 1874
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