5279: Home of Heroes: A Boy Goes To War
In World War One “as many as 250,000 boys under the age of 18 served in the British Army…” according to the BBC. This Commando is inspired by them as the hero, Tom Cowrie, illegally signs on to do his part. Spurred on by his brother’s heroic letters, Tom runs away from home only to find out that the war is nothing like his brother had described, and in the harsh reality of the trenches he was just a boy who went to war.
| Story | Iain McLaughlin | Art | Manuel Benet | Cover | Manuel Benet |
5280: Gold Collection: The Savage Sky
A stunning aerial Ian Kennedy cover sits atop this classic Commando issue from 1973! With amazing artwork by Mira depicting the Commando staple tropes of a reluctant hero and a pilot attached to a bomber squadron when he’d rather be flying fighters. In this case, Pilot Officer Andy Seymour is booted off Hurricanes and onto a mammoth Boeing Fortress – but Seymour will soon learn the flying beasts are equally as dangerous in the sky!
| Story | Staff | Art | Mira | Cover | Ian Kennedy |
Originally Commando No. 772 (1973).
5281: Action and Adventure: On Your Bikes!
Ferg Handley tackles comedy in this World War One story. The Army Cyclist Corps wasn’t Lieutenant Arthur ‘Gormless’ Gormley’s first choice to join, but he was determined to do his bit — even if he did fall off his bike again and again. He had originally wanted to join the cavalry but that’s a different story!
| Story | Ferg Handley | Art | Morhain & Defeo | Cover | Ian Kennedy |
5282: Silver Collection: The Paras Are Here!
Phil Gascoine’s fiery cover for ‘The Paras Are Here!’ is very emblematic of McDevitt’s tumultuous plot within, which focuses on two sergeants before D-Day who lay the groundwork for the invasion. Sergeant Joe Cougan is already stressed, but when the young, clumsy PIAT gunner, Private Andy Bruce, is around Joe’s stress levels go through the roof! And it’s only made worse when his rival Sergeant Sam Gleeson, tells him to cut the kid a break!
| Story | McDevitt | Art | Keith Shone | Cover | Phil Gascoine |
Originally Commando No. 2544 (1992).
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