Commando Comics This Week: 5555-5558

Commando Comics issues 5555-5558 are in shops and online from Thursday 7th July 2022!

It's an action-packed week featuring stories set in the Vietnam war, War in the East, and two deadly D-Day comics! With one of the most requested Commandos finally being reprinted, make sure you pick it up.

You can get them physically in all good newsagents or online over at Commando: War Comic For Action and Adventure (commandocomics.com), where great deals are always 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 5555: Home of Heroes: Dead Men’s Boots 
Story | JP Bridson | Art | Klacik | Cover | Neil Roberts

When Lieutenant Chuck Kinley arrives in Vietnam, things get off to a poor start. With rumours of his predecessors being fragged by their own men and NCOs playing by their own rules, it’s a tough battle for survival when you’re standing in Dead Man's Boots! 

A gritty Vietnam yarn from JP Bridson is brought to life with equally gritty-looking interiors by Klacik, all topped off with Neil Roberts covers with the unusual focal point on the Vietcong, making for a belter of a  Commando comic!  

Commando 5556: Gold Collection: Black Zero 
Story | Newark | Art | Jose Maria Jorge | Cover | Ian Kennedy | Originally Commando No. 456 (1970)

Out of the sun it came, a jet‑black Zero with a large golden dragon on its side. And at the controls sat Captain Jirai Saito, a top ace who’d become king of the Pacific skies. He and his squadron had made their name by shooting down clumsy P-40 fighters, but the time for a showdown was at hand. On their way from Europe was a squadron of sleek Spitfires that had left the Luftwaffe in tatters. The stage was set for the greatest air battles the Eastern skies had ever known!

One of the most requested Commandos to be reprinted – is finally being reprinted! This hotly anticipated classic features not only a rip-roaring story by Newark but also artwork from two legendary Commando artists, Jose Maria Jorge and Ian Kennedy!

Commando 5557: Action and Adventure: Renegade Raiders 
Story | Ferg Handley | Art | Muller | Cover | Mark Eastbrook

As D-Day approaches, Sergeant Joe Shatner and Second Lieutenant Rick Levitt head the demolition section of a US Airborne company —a rough, tough bunch of renegades with a flair for fighting and no respect for the rules. But Normandy is a long way from training and the comfort of an English pub! Faced with a chaotic landing, lost leaders and waves of German soldiers, can the team pull together and survive? 

Ferg Handley strikes again with a group of rough-and-ready raiders who regularly flaunt the rules but get the job done! With art by Muller and Commando cover newcomer Mark Eastbrook, this isn’t an issue to be missed!

Commando 5558: Silver Collection: The Strongpoint 
Story | Motton | Art | Blasco | Cover | Philpott | Originally Commando No. 1807 (1984).

The target: three big guns in huge concrete bunkers surrounded by machine guns, barbed wire, and mines. They could cut the Allied invasion forces to shreds on the beaches unless they were spiked. The attackers: a bunch of raw soldiers barely out of school. Could the youngsters do it? You can bet they were going to try!

Seeing the light again after escaping the archives is this classic Commando from the 1980s! With amazing work from Motton, Blasco, and cover by Philpott.