Commando 5983-5986

This week's Commando set features a high-stakes adventure in the skies above Leningrad, when the scheming SS attempt to double-cross Leutnant Kurt Stahlmann and his trusty Junkers Ju 52, Iron Annie. And over in Burma, Private Henry Lovelock must dig deep to find the courage to save his friend. Issues 5983-5986 are on sale today, Thursday 13th August. 

5983: Iron Annie

After Leutnant Kurt Stahlmann sabotages an SS scheme to smuggle plundered Soviet treasure back to Germany, he is assigned the task of flying supplies to Leningrad and clearing Russian ground defences along the way. Unbeknownst to Kurt’s crew, the vengeful SS have taken measures to ensure that his beloved Junkers Ju 52 Iron Annie’s next flight will be her last.

Story: Dominic Teague
Internal Art: Jaume Forns
Cover Art: Neil Roberts

5984: Mustang Patrol

Alan Blake was a Mustang pilot. An expert flyer in a brilliant aircraft. Give him Messerschmitts to tackle — he had no trouble with them. E-boats to shoot up — no problem there either. 
    But then came that terrible day when the stream of bullets from his guns tore into his own squadron leader…

Story: Brunt
Internal Art: John Ridgway
Cover Art: Ian Kennedy
First published 1972 as No.700

5985: A Different Kind of Courage

Burma, 1944. Assigned to a Royal Artillery base deep in the jungle, traumatised and scared Private Henry Lovelock is only able to carry on due to the reassuring protection of a squad of Gurkhas, led by the fearless Bibek. But, when the base is raided by the Japanese and Bibek is captured, Henry must find the courage to save his Nepalese friend.

Story: Ian Winterton
Internal Art: Alberto Saichann
Cover Art: Neil Roberts

5986: The Squadron That Wouldn’t Die
 
This is the story of the RAF unit that rose from disgrace to carve a glorious name for
itself in perilous enemy skies. And, even when all its planes had been brought down, that squadron still refused to die!

Story: McOwan
Internal Art: Jose Maria Jorge
Cover Art: Ian Kennedy
First published 1972 as No. 632

Commando 5979-5982

This week's Commando set brings you all-new Cadman and a dramatic story from the helicopter-filled skies of the Vietnam War. Issues 5979-5982 are on sale today, Thursday 30th  July.

5979: Cadman: Quartermaster

The Western Front, May 1916. Prince Rupert’s Horse Regiment find themselves short of food and, crucially, the private food supplies of Lieutenant Cadman — the fighting coward — have run dry too. 
Spurred into unusual action by his rumbling belly, Cadman leads his men on a dangerous expedition to replenish his food stores, and escape another tin of Maconochie rations.

Story: Andrew Knighton
Internal Art: Mike Dorey
Cover Art: Mike Dorey & Grant Wood

5980: Tiger in The Tail

The most dangerous job in the RAF — that’s what people said about “Tail-End Charlies”, the rear-gunners who were always the first target for enemy fighters.
    This story is about Charlie Stevens, a man who set out to make the job dangerous indeed — for those enemy fighters!

Story: McOwan
Internal Art: Amador
Cover Art: Ian Kennedy
First published 1972 as No.621

5981: Snake-Bite!

During the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War, US Army helicopters were in the thick of it — none more so than the AH-1 Cobra gunships, agile death-dealers deployed against the invading forces of the Viet Cong.
    But the conflict in Southeast Asia cost much, not just in bullets and machines, but in the lives of men and their spirits, broken by the toll of destruction...

Story: James Swallow
Internal Art: Paolo Ongaro
Cover Art: Keith Burns

5982: Heroes and Cowards
 
There was no denying the fact that Lieutenant Roger Darbrook had run from his first taste of war, leaving his sergeant to do his job for him and fight a vital rearguard action.
    The question was, would he run again? Many people thought so, and at one time it certainly looked like they were right. Yet things aren’t always what they seem...

Story: C. G. Walker
Internal Art: Ruiz
Cover Art: Philpott
First published 1985 as No. 1885

Commando 5975-5978

This week's Commando set includes a brand-new Harrier Squadron story and a wartime mystery in the Black Forest. Issues 5975-5978 are on sale today. Thursday 16th July.

5975: Harrier Squadron: Ghost Flight
It is the mid-1990s and across a battle-scarred Europe, the forces of WESFED (Western Federation) and the Eastern armies of the ASBLOC (Asian Bloc) are in a delicate state of truce. But the fragile peace is under constant threat and only Harrier Squadron — an international allied task force of jump-jet pilots — can prevent a flight of bandit “ghost fighters” from re-igniting the deadly conflict!

Story: James Swallow
Internal Art: Esteve Polls
Cover Art: Keith Burns

5976: Assassin!

John Daniels had only one thought in his mind — revenge. Revenge against the Brigadier who had sentenced him to prison for the crime of self-defence. 
    Now, the Brigadier was a prisoner in Germany, and John was on his way to find him. But it was no rescue attempt — John had orders to silence the Brigadier once and for all!

Story: Gentry
Internal Art: V. Fuente
Cover Art: Penalva
First published 1972 as No.620

5977: Erlking

Germany, 1945. Following Germany’s surrender, Allied forces occupy much of the country. In pursuit of an escaped Nazi prisoner, a troop of US soldiers encounters a French-occupied village on the edge of the Black Forest, which has been experiencing a spate of missing people. 
    The villagers blame the malevolent Erlking — a forest spirit. Only Klara Hoffman, a local clockmaker’s daughter, believes a more human threat dwells in the woods.

Story: NA Breakenridge
Internal Art: Esteve Polls
Cover Art: Marco Bianchini

5978: Operation “Terror”
 
When a man has seen too much fighting and come close to death, he wants only one thing — a safe job, and a bit of peace and quiet away from the shells and the bullets. So Ned Simpson reckoned his luck was in when he was sent home from Italy and posted to guard a Welsh reservoir. 
    But how wrong can you be? For soon he was to come face-to-face with a crack German parachute unit. 
In Wales? Yes, that’s right...

Story: Staff
Internal Art: Escandell
Cover Art: Philpott
First published 1985 as No. 1893

Commando 5971-5974

This week's Commando set includes a fun and fantastical Commando story set in the Norwegian mountains, and a mystery for former detective Rick Brennan in the foggy Ardennes in 1944. Issues 5971-5974 are on sale today, Thursday 2nd July.

5971: Commandos Vs Dragons

Sergeant Terry Banks and his colourful team of Commandos were known for getting the job done. But the Commandos might have bitten off more than they could chew when their next mission, to find and dispatch a Nazi Oberfuhrer obsessed with the occult, led them to the beautiful and mysterious fjords of Norway.
    Nobody could have guessed what lay slumbering in the mountains…

Story: Andrew Knighton
Internal Art: Juan Ferdandez
Cover Art: Graeme Neil Reid

5972: Buccaneer Bob, R.N.

Thrashing in to attack at forty knots, guns blazing, torpedoes hissing from the tubes...that was how they fought their war in the little ships of the Royal Navy. 
    To command one of those MTBs, you had to be brave as a lion, quick as lightning, tough as steel. And Lieutenant Bob Stacey was a guy just like that.

Story: RA Montague
Internal & Cover Art: Gordon C Livingstone
First published 1972 as No.618

5973: The Long, Bad Night

The Ardennes, 1944. A fog descended on the forest, and former detective Rick Brennan found himself in the thick of it. Separated from his unit, he took shelter in a farmhouse with a disparate crew of American soldiers, a captured German and a disgruntled civilian. 
    When one of the men was murdered, Rick was convinced the German was innocent, but he’d have a long, bad night ahead of him trying to catch the real killer.

Story: Sean Mason
Internal Art: Vicente Alcazar
Cover Art: Simon Pritchard

5974: Caught In The Trap
 
For some Burmese tribes, the only way a young lad could prove himself a man was by catching a tiger single handed. Even though the occupying Japanese forbade such hunts, Kam-Lee was determined to carry out the age-old ritual. But he wasn’t the only hunter, for the brutal Colonel Samato was stalking a British fighter-pilot through the jungle. Soon, someone was going to be... Caught In The Trap!

Story: McDevitt
Internal Art: Ibanez
Cover Art: Ron Brown
First published 1985 as No. 1881

Commando 5967-5970

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

Commando 5963-5966

This week's Commando set includes a high noon face-off between Commandos, SAS and a group of Nazi Cowboys, and over in Normandy, Hauptmann Lange is interrogating the captured, and surprisingly nonchalant, Private David Taylor. Issues 5963-5966 are on sale today, Thursday 4th June.

5963: Commandos Vs Cowboys

High noon in the town of San Cavino. Two gunslingers. One victor.
    Nazi Cowboys have formed the despicable SS George Washington Legion, terrorising Allies and civilians in Northern Italy. That’s where SAS Major Hugh Hulke comes in. He knows the area and can assist Captain Andrew Ashe and his elite Commando unit in taking down the turncoats. But is Hulke out for justice — or revenge?

Story: Rossa McPhillips
Internal Art: Marc Viure
Cover Art: Marco Bianchini

5964: Hero on Horseback

How do you attack a Nazi Panzer supply base guarded by huge Tiger tanks? Do you use bombs? Or rockets? Perhaps artillery? 
    Not if you’re Captain Brad Blake you don’t. You charge with your own roughneck, bareback cavalry!

Story: Spence
Internal Art: AC Kennedy
Cover Art: Penalva
First published 1972 as No.613

5965: What Are You Doing Here?

Although currently tied to a chair in a medieval church, Private David Taylor could climb like a monkey and talk the hind legs off a donkey. But, fuelled by coffee, cruelty and a desire to push back against the Normandy Invasion, Hauptmann Lange only wanted to know one thing from Taylor… What Are You Doing Here?

Story: Andrew Knighton
Internal Art: Vicente Alcazar
Cover Art: Marco Bianchini

5966: The Last Raiders

On foot, in a foreign land, with every police force and army unit on the alert for them, a small bunch of Italian sailors tried desperately to get over the border to the safety of Mexico. 
    What were they doing in the USA in the first place? Well, it started when they raided a big American harbour, thousands of miles from their home, in a midget submarine!

Story: Bill Fear
Internal Art: Blasco
Cover Art: Jeff Bevan
First published 1985 as No. 1882

Commando 5959-5962

This week's Commando set includes a nail-biting sci-fi battle between Commandos and a group of alien invaders, as well as a visit from an old comrade for Private Jack Dawson, forcing him to face his wartime past. Issues 5959-5962 are on sale today, Thursday 21st May.

5959: Commandos Vs Aliens

You can’t blame Sergeant Fox Ryder and his Commando squad for feeling a tad frustrated when they are tasked with simulating a German invasion on a quiet coastal town in England. But Ryder and his men should have been careful what they wished for. Soon, their mundane mission takes on greater significance when they realise they are being evaluated by an otherworldly intelligence — the vanguard of a real invasion force intent upon conquering not only Britain, but the entire planet!

Story: Dominic Teague
Internal Art: Alejandro Garcia Mangana
Cover Art: Neil Roberts

5960: Ace Of Aces

Andy Bellamy had the DSO, the DFC and the AFC. He had also flown just about every type of Allied aircraft — British, American, Australian and so on. He was truly an ace of aces.
    So how come he found himself flying a Japanese seaplane under murderous fire from a Yank destroyer?

Story: Brunt
Internal Art: D Sanchez
Cover Art: Ian Kennedy
First published 1972 as No.612

5961: Gallery Of Sin

It’s 1945, the war has ended and Jack ‘Jackdaw’ Dawson is celebrating the future with the opening of his London art gallery. But Dawson has skeletons in his wartime closet, and one has shown up on the opening night in the form of Aiden Hume.
    Thick as thieves on the frontline, Dawson and Hume’s friendship suffered a messy fallout. Now Hume has returned, and it’s time for Dawson to examine his past.

Story: Dominic Teague
Internal Art: Alberto Saichann
Cover Art: Simon Pritchard

5962: Scorching Sand
 
Sergeant Joe Dell had underestimated the North African desert, and it turned out to be a very dangerous place indeed, with sandstorms, murderous locals and the ever-advancing Germans. 
    And this time, he’d gotten in too deep, and the desert thirsted for revenge. This time, he was as good as dead...

Story: CG Walker
Internal Art: Fleming
Cover Art: Philpott
First published 1985 as No. 1866

Commando 5955-5958

This week's action-packed Commando set includes the epic conclusion to the Valiant Stormers Forlorn Hope series, a race against the clock for SAS Captain Hulke, and some old crackers too. Issues 5955-5958 are on sale today, Thursday 7th May.

5955: Dutiful Death

The epic conclusion to the Valiant Stormers Forlorn Hope series!
    The Franco-Spanish border, November 1813. As Wellington’s allied army prepares to invade France, the law-abiding Lieutenant Jones breaks the rules to save his friends.
    With the twin threats of court martial and heartbreak hanging over him, he’s going to need the help of old comrades as they head into their last fight on Spanish soil.

Story: Andrew Knighton
Internal & Cover Art: Manuel Benet

5956: The Knife

It was a very special Commando knife, presented to Private Bill Taylor to remind him of the time his strength had saved a friend’s life.
    Now all Bill’s pals were dead, murdered by an evil Nazi thug. And the knife was gone too, stolen by the same Nazi. Grimly, Bill determined to get it back — and avenge his mates at the same time...

Story: Richardson
Internal Art: Cortes
Cover Art: Penalva
First published 1971 as No.609

5957: High-Value Target

Italy, 1943. SAS Captain Hugh Hulke had been assigned to capture leading German SD officer, Olaf Metz. His team went above and beyond, bagging six SD officers on a successful raid of Metz’s hideout. But no-one had a picture of Metz, so which one was he?
    Six prisoners. One target. No second chances.

Story: Rossa McPhillips
Internal Art: Vicente Alcazar
Cover Art: Marco Bianchini

5958: Ice-Cold Courage
 
Outdated, lumbering and cumbersome — yet Fairey Swordfish, nicknamed “Stringbags”, were incredibly successful machines. They were truly great planes and great pilots flew them, like Tony Stanning, who was eager to be in action.
    But Tony was going to need all his courage on this latest mission to attack a German battleship, for the danger wouldn’t come from the enemy guns alone. It would come from the rear cockpit too, because his observer was a useless coward...

Story: McDevitt
Internal Art: Denis McLoughlin
Cover Art: Ian Kennedy
First published 1985 as No. 1862

Commando 5947-5950

Lord Peter Flint – AKA Warlord – is back for a new, high-stakes mission in the next Commando set. Alongside that, we have a story about the fiercely brave Polish resistance fighters in occupied 1944 Warsaw, as well as two fantastic, reprinted tales. Issues 5947-5950 on sale today, April 9th. 

5947: Codename Warlord: Shadow Sands

Lord Peter Flint is on one of his most dangerous — and important — missions yet!
‘Shadow Sands’ is the codename for the biological weapons project collecting anthrax spores on an isolated Maunsell Fort off the coast of England. Flint’s handler, Kingpin, was at the fort when it was raided by a team of German commandos and Professor Kranz’s robot Panzermen. Now he’s been taken hostage along with the leading scientists!
    But Intelligence believes someone on board the fort helped the Germans — and they suspect Kingpin! Kingpin, a traitor?! It can’t be true!
    Warlord has until midnight to rescue the hostages and clear Kingpin’s name!

Story: Dominic Teague
Internal Art: Paolo Ongaro
Cover Art: Neil Roberts

5948: Desert Double-Cross
 
The German soldier stood well braced, Schmeisser shuddering in his strong hands and cutting down the attackers. He had learnt the ways of war in France, Crete, North Africa — a tough school for any soldier. And beside him, firing with equal calmness, was a British soldier — a veteran hardened in the battles of Dunkirk, Tobruk, El Alamein.
    That day, many British and German soldiers fought the hardest fight of their lives in the ruins of an old desert fort. Not against each other, but as allies!

Story: CG Walker
Internal Art: Cam Kennedy
Cover Art: Ian Kennedy
First published 1971 as No.604

5949: Phoenix From The Flame

 Warsaw, summer of 1944. Not everyone had bowed down to the German occupation. Like other brave members of the underground Polish Home Army,
    Monika Proch risked her life for her country to be free.
    The previous year, Warsaw had seen how cruelly the Nazis could crush rebellion, with the utter destruction of the Jewish ghetto. Monika vowed the rest of her city would not receive the same fate.
    Together with the other men and women of the Resistance, they would rise against the Nazi invaders like a… PHOENIX FROM THE FLAMES!

Story: Andrew Knighton
Internal Art: Vicente Alcazar
Cover Art: Marco Bianchini

5950: Swamp Strike
 
 If you’re a member of a platoon trekking through miles of hostile jungle to attack a secret enemy supply dump, you want the man in command to be a cool, reliable bloke whom you can trust.
    But what happens when you’re led by someone whose lies nearly landed you in prison?

Story: CG Walker
Internal Art: Carrion
Cover Art: Philpott
First published 1984 as No. 1858

Commando 5943-5946

Our next action-packed Commando set collects four sci-fi war stories from the 1994 G-Tex collection. Written by Mark Knowles and Ian Clark, with explosive art from Phil Gascoine, Ian Kennedy, Manuel Benet, Carlos Pino and Garijo, issues are on sale today, 26th March. 

5943: Gladiator Challenge 

Take a chance, open this book! See how tomorrow’s warriors will tackle the clashes of the future. There’s still fear and danger to be faced and it will take nerves of steel to read about these heroes of the future... men like Colonel Wolfe Brady!

Story: Mike Knowles
Internal Art: Phil Gascoine
Cover Art: Ian Kennedy
First published 1994 as No. 2725

5944: Roman Challenge
 
Follow Colonel Wolfe Brady once more as he tackles the troubles of the late 21st century. And this time, there are even more fears and dangers to be faced when hackers break into the system and cause chaos. It will take all of Wolfe Brady’s skill to cope...

Story: Mike Knowles
Internal & Cover Art: Manuel Benet
First published 1994 as No. 2738

5945: Viking Challenge

Another challenge to be tackled, another problem defused. For Colonel Wolfe Brady, Britain’s most experienced G-Tex, it was another mission to be treated with respect and handled with all his skill. 
For his opponent, it was more than that. Lieutenant Tavis Magee had clashed with Wolfe before and lost. Now here was his best chance to win and he wasn’t about to mess it up...

Story: Ian Clark
Internal and Cover Art: Carlos Pino
First published 1994 as No. 2754

5946: Rogue Challenge
 
Warriors battle in time once again, as an evil genius brings a new and horrifying element to the G-Tex’s world of computer war games.

Story: Mike Knowles
Internal Art: Garijo
Cover Art: Ian Kennedy
First published 1994 as No. 2746