Commando Comics Briefing: Issues 5971-5974

Commando Comics issues 5971-5974 land on Thursday 2nd July with one of the more fantastical batches in recent memory - and that's saying something. The Home of Heroes slot delivers a wildly original wartime fantasy. A squad of British Commandos go up against something far deadlier than the Nazis in the fjords of Norway. Elsewhere, there's a murder mystery, with a former detective trying to catch a killer during the fog-bound Battle of the Bulge.

Rounding out the set are two classic reprints: a hard-charging 1972 Royal Navy MTB adventure, and a 1985 Burma thriller that pits a British pilot against a Japanese colonel - and a tiger. Whatever kind of Commando reader you are, this week's issues have something for you.

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Commando 5971 (Home of Heroes): 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

Commando 5972 (Gold): 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

Commando 5973 (For Action and Adventure): 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

Commando 5974 (Silver): 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

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