Every other week four issues of Commando go on sale and here are the previews for the latest batch. In newsagents on Thursday. Thanks to DC Thomson for the images and press release. Here we go...
Commando
issues 4743-4746 – On Sale 25 September 2014
Commando
No 4743 – Return To The Sky
No, you’re not seeing
things, that is a Sopwith Camel scout attacking a Ju 87 Stuka. But surely, you
say, they’re planes from two different wars, their designs nearly 25 years
apart. Surely they would never have met in combat.
Well, yes and no.
How this unlikely pair came face
to face takes a bit of explaining. It’s the story of a warrior’s…
RETURN TO THE SKY
Story: Alan Hebden
Art: Carlos Pino
Cover: Carlos Pino
Commando No 4744 –
Scourge Of The Desert
The Sign of the
Scorpion was their badge, and soon the Germans learned why…for the men of the
Long Range Desert Group would fight as long as they drew breath. Their raids
were as fast as the sting of the scorpion, and twice as deadly!
Introduction
The sub-title “the
toughest desert rat of them all” would seem to sum up this story very neatly
but there is a lot more going on here than just a lantern-jawed British hero
beating the beastly Jerries. There are at least two other battles going on
alongside that struggle.
Gordon Livingstone’s crisp
interior artwork — with Zip-a-tone shading in amongst the black pen work —
marries excellent detail work along with dynamic figures to match the frantic
mood of the action.
Ken Barr’s cover work does what
it always does — makes you want to open the book. And as you’ve done that, it’s
worked!
Originally titled Single Fare To
Tobruk, this is classic Commando at its finest.
Calum Laird, Commando Editor
Scourge Of The Desert,
originally Commando No 123 (July 1964), re-issued as No 663 (July 1972)
Story: Kenner
Art: Gordon Livingstone
Cover: Ken Barr
Commando No 4745 – “On
The Run!”
On the retreat to
Dunkirk, Sergeant-Major Mike Fletcher had hooked up with a trio of individuals
separated from their units. Eventually they were captured and became POWs.
However, Mike saw some potential
in this down-trodden and uninspired bunch. The Sergeant-Major was determined to
turn them into proper soldiers once and for all!
First, all they had to do was
escape…
Story: Ferg Handley
Art: Morahin
Cover: Janek Matysiak
Commando No 4746 –
No-Gun Hero
When Johnny Peace was
called up to the army he refused to fight, refused to kill anyone. And he was
branded a coward.
So he went to war as a medical
orderly. Not for him guns or grenades — his only weapons were his medical
satchel and his courage.
A coward? Not Johnny Peace. There
was probably never a braver man in the British Army!
Introduction
Although Medical
Orderly Johnny Peace (yes, really) is our eponymous No-Gun Hero, he is all but
upstaged by a magnificent mutt — the fierce but noble Alsatian called Satan
(yes, really).
There have been a few fighting
dogs in Commando’s long history. Memorable canine “tails” (sorry, at least one
pooch-related pun is compulsory) have included “Wagger’s War” (No 1106),
“Billy’s Best Friend” (No 3938) and “Hounds Of War” (originally No 67, re-issued
late in 2013 as No 4664).
So, “Fetch!” a cuppa, “Sit!” back
and enjoy the story of a devilishly heroic hound.
Scott Montgomery,
Deputy Editor
No-Gun Hero, re-issued
as No 2299 (August 1989), originally Commando No 965 (September 1975)
Story: Bernard Gregg
Art: Boluda
Cover: Ian Kennedy
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