Commando Comics This Week: 5639-5642
Our ANZAC Day special Commando issues 5639-5642 go on sale Thursday 27th April, 2023. With two issues dedicated to ANZACs fighting in during World War Two in the Pacific alongside two classic Commando reprints!
As always, you can get them physically in all good newsagents or online at Commando: War Comic For Action and Adventure (commandocomics.com), where great deals are always available. Get your first 26 issues for only £16 if you sign up with a direct debit, saving you a massive £120.50! Or you can sign up digitally, and the promotion code DCTEXTRA is still available for a 30% discount! A yearly sub is £49.99 (£34.99 if you use the discount code), which is £158 cheaper than buying them in the shops.
Commando 5639: Home of Heroes: The Kokoda Trail
Story | Ferg Handley | Art | Alberto Saichann | Cover | Neil Roberts
The Kokoda Trail — an unforgiving path slicing through the jungle of Papua New Guinea for sixty gruelling miles. Through thick mud, merciless terrain, and Japanese attack after attack, Australian soldiers retreated, hoping to survive the Kokoda Trail or die trying!
Ferg Handley’s gritty tale of survival in the inhospitable landscape of the Kokoda Trail is brought to life by Alberto Saichann’s stark and graphic interior artwork. What’s more, Neil Roberts’s superb cover pays homage to classic Commando issue No. 15!
Commando 5640: Gold Collection: The Prisoners
Story | Hardwick, | Art | Marzal | Cover | Staff | Originally Commando No. 960 (1975).
Classic Commando incoming! Bill Davies had been a pickpocket before the war, and when he got into uniform, his mates reckoned he stole from them too. No-one liked the little rat. But Bill wasn’t a little rat… he was actually a hero!
Commando 5640 has never been reprinted until this issue! On its first outing since 1975, this issue is brought to you from the pen of Hardwick, the pencil and inks of Marzal, and a cover by Staff!
Commando 5641: Action and Adventure: Sink the Tiger!
Story | Brent Towns | Art | Esteve Polls | Cover | Keith Burns
The unthinkable has happened — HMAS Tiger has been captured by the Japanese and is being used to create havoc amongst allied shipping! The Australian Navy’s most experienced destroyer commander, John Griffin, is called in to solve the problem, his orders: “SINK THE TIGER!”
Another rip-roaring tale from Brent Towns’s The Wombat and The Tiger series! With interior artwork from outstanding newcomer, Esteve Polls, and Keith Burns’s amazing work on cover!
Commando 5642: Silver Collection: The Fighting Fishermen
Story | RA Montague | Art | Flores | Cover | Ian Kennedy | Originally Commando No. 1433 (1980).
Trawler crews may not look as smart or disciplined as the men of the Royal Navy, but they have an instinct about the sea that is bred in their bones. So, when war broke out, the Germans began sowing mines in Britain’s vital shipping lanes, many of these fishing boats were given a new and dangerous task — to stop catching fish and start catching mines!
This silver-era commando features work from prolific writer RA Montague, with zesty, seafaring interiors by Flores, and topped off with an Ian Kennedy classic!
