Commando Issues 4959-4962 - On Sale 20th October 2016
Commando - 4959 - Home Front Terror
Wounded on a daring operation in Occupied Norway, Commando Sergeant
Jeff Tain was sent home to England to recuperate.
Jeff’s younger brother, Dave, was a police constable, investigating a
black market racket when dead bodies unexpectedly started showing up.
The siblings were convinced that something more sinister was going on…
an assassination plot involving German spies!
Story: George Low
Art: Morahin
Cover: Janek Matysiak
Commando - 4960 - Blood Of Heroes
Sergeant Butch Walker was a veteran with 30 years of fighting service
in the British Army - and now they said he was too old to fight.
Boy soldier Jimmy Walker, Butch’s nephew, had barely one year of
square-bashing to his credit. They said he was too young to fight.
But no matter how hard they tried, nobody could keep those two away
from the front line for long. For in the veins of both ran the blood of heroes.
Story: Eric Hebden
Art: Segrelles
Cover: James
Introduction -
The impressive art of Vicente Segrelles appeared in fifteen Commando
books, beginning with “Desert Fury” (No 232) and ending with “Silence The Guns!”
(No 1454). All were published between 1966 and 1980.
A Spaniard, his interior work had a dramatic, fluid style with plenty
of thick, black inks. Señor Segrelles also handled some Commando covers -
although not on this occasion, that equally impressive piece of art was done by
the mysterious ‘James’.
Scott Montgomery, Deputy Editor
Blood Of Heroes, originally Commando No 259 (May 1967), re-issued as
No 915 (March 1975)
Commando - 4961 - The Stone Forest
Clarke Johnson was a reconnaissance pilot during America’s clash with
Mexico in the early 20th Century. His aircraft grounded, Clarke found himself
in an uneasy alliance with an Apache-born former U.S. Cavalryman and together
they were fighting Pancho Villa’s Mexican revolutionaries.
Things looked bleak - as bleak as the eerie burial site that hid a
treasure that men were willing to kill for. They would have to fight to survive
and uncover the secret of… The Stone Forest!
Story: Steve Coombs
Art: Keith Page
Cover: Keith Page
Commando - 4962 - Raid By Night!
Tactics had changed, machines had improved, but Group Captain Roland
Bird knew from his Great War experiences that efficiency came with practice and
attention to detail. His new command could expect a hard taskmaster, especially
the crew of Wellington S-Sugar, who had crashed his car at their first meeting.
Story: Ian Clark
Art: Terry Patrick
Cover: Ian Kennedy
Introduction -
Regular Commando readers know that Ian Kennedy is renowned for his
legendary aircraft covers - although, of course, he can draw anything and
everything. Ian himself has a passion for aeronautical illustration that has
become his trademark and he has drawn over 1000 Commando covers.
His painting here is of a slightly more esoteric plane than we’re used
to - a Handley Page 400, which was flown by pilots in the newly-formed Royal
Air Force, as well as the Royal Naval Air Service late in World War I. The
image may not be of something as immediately recognisable as a Wellington or a
Lancaster but we still have that sense of drama and dynamism inherent in this
amazing artist’s work.
Raid By Night!, originally Commando No 2461 (April 1991)
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