Commando Comics This Week: 5523-5526

Brand-new Commandos Issues 5523-5526 are out this week. Featuring watercolourists in the Somme, rival truck drivers, spies in the North African Desert, and a deadly aircraft carrier prowling the Pacific!

You can get them physically in all good newsagents or online over at Commando: War Comic For Action and Adventure (commandocomics.com) where there are always great deals available. Get your first 26 issues for only £13 if you sign up with a direct debit, saving you a massive £143! Or you can sign up digitally, where you can still use the promotion code DCTEXTRA for a 30% discount!

Commando 5523: Home of Heroes: Set the Somme 
Story | Andrew Knighton | Art | Klacik | Cover | Neil Roberts

Captain Archibald Rankin had been on the front line of the Great War for two years. He was a no-nonsense officer type who wanted nothing more than to get his men through alive. So why, when he asked for reinforcements to his beleaguered line, did they send him men armed with paintbrushes and scenery, led by a pompous nitwit of an artist? Rankin didn’t care if he was Sir Reginald Bluth the famous landscape painter commissioned by the king —he wanted fighting men not camoufleurs!

Andrew Knighton spotlights an unusual part of the First World War often overlooked – but no longer! And with an atmospheric Neil Roberts cover to boot!

Commando 5524: Gold Collection: Battle-wagon 
Story | Smith | Art | Alonso | Cover | Lopez Epsi | Originally Commando No. 422 (1969)

In the whole British Army, there was no truck driver as dashing or daring as Corporal Bill Bragg... that’s what all Bill Bragg’s men believed. But one day, when Bill was driving flat out, he heard a truck horn behind him blare out an angry request to pass. At the wheel of the pursuing truck was Corporal Mike Maguire who was never happy to be second to anybody... not even to big Bill Bragg. It was the start of a private war that made the real war look like a picnic.

A classic Commando from the 1960s’ vault with Smith’s masterful writing and Alonso and Lopez Epsi on artwork duty. This isn’t one to miss!

Commando 5525: Action and Adventure: Sink the Shokaku! 
Story | Brent Towns | Art | Morhain | Cover | Keith Burns

A secret, third Shokaku-Class Aircraft Carrier carries eight twin dual-purpose guns, twelve anti-aircraft guns and over seventy-two aircraft — a heck of a threat for the Royal Australian Navy in the South Pacific! But there are two rowdy and tenacious captains who won’t rest until it goes under! A regular couple of Ahabs, this is one white whale that will never get away from them.

Another story in the hugely successful HMS Wombat and Tiger series from Brent Towns doing what he does best! He’s teamed up with Morhain and Keith Burns on art yet again making this a universally amazing issue!

Commando 5526: Silver Collection: Hot Sand Cold Courage 
Story | CG Walker | Art | Nebot | Cover | Jeff Bevan | Originally Commando No. 1770 (1984)

The war in the Western Desert was a game of cat and mouse, with each side desperately trying to find out what the other was planning. When the Germans seemed to be gaining the upper hand, it was up to British Intelligence and a very cunning agent to set the balance right.

A silver era issue come to play again with CG Walker on script and Nebot and Jeff Bevan on art.