First batch of Commandos for June out now

Editor Calum Laird brings news from the front of the latest issues of Commando out this week...

Commando 4299: TARGET…TIGER!

D-Day, Normandy, June 1944 — and tank commander Joe Gibson is raring to go. Then a Tiger destroys his Cromwell killing his crewmates. He blames himself for their deaths.
Joe soon returns to duty but soon in an inferior, in his mind, M4 Sherman. To his new crew it looks like Joe has lost his nerve.
Was that the truth? Even Joe is beginning to wonder — especially when he has a Tiger in his sights…

Story: Ferg Handley

Art: Morahin

Cover: Janek Matysiak

Another cover from Janek Matysiak using his new direct-to-screen way of working. You can see the first he did in this way at http://www.commandomag.com/index.php?id=1369




Commando No 4300: “FIRE!”

They were simply supposed to showcase some new 9-pounder field pieces. But in 1861, Austrian artillery Lieutenant Stefan Kircher and his battalion of gunners found themselves caught in the thick of the American Civil War. And fighting on the side of the Confederate South against the Union.
Stefan didn’t like it. And worse, some the Confederates weren’t keen on the Austrians’ involvement either…

Story: Ferg Handley

Art: Macabich

Cover Art: Macabich


Commando 4301: WINGS OF WAR

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, but they did know that only the lucky ones would survive the war. Brothers Rory and Hamish McLean, fighter pilots, would push their luck to the limit…and beyond!

Story: Ian Clark

Art: José Maria Jorge

Cover Art: Ian Kennedy

Originally no 2855 from 1995

Part five of our seven-part series celebrating the end of the war in Europe in 1945. This time an air story with illustrations by two experts in the field.


Commando 4302: CODE OF HONOUR

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 Wehrmacht Major Franz Thomas, that day hadn’t come soon to save many lives…and he was sure it was his fault!

Story: Ian Clark

Art: Carlos Pino

Cover Art: Ian Kennedy

Originally No 2856 from 1995

Part six of our seven-part VE-Day series. The story is seen from the point of view of a German — something Commando has done many times over the years.