Commando Comics This Week: 5663-5666

Author: Ben Williams

Reading time: 2 minutes

Four brand-new Commando comics hit shelves Thursday, 20th July, 2023!

With teething problems in Crete, gold thieves in Greece, partisans in Italy, and the return of The Victor character 'Cadman' for the first time in 30 years with original artist Mike Dorey!

Commando 5663: Home of Heroes: Tooth and Nail

Story | Ferg Handley | Art | Manuel Benet | Cover | Manuel Benet

You might think life isn't very exciting for an army dentist, but Lieutenant Keith Hooper certainly didn't have a boring life during the Battle of Crete! As invading German paratroopers fell from the skies, Keith gritted his teeth and jumped into the action!

Surviving by the skin of his teeth, Keith was captured and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. But Keith was champing at the bit to escape, sick to his back teeth with how they were being treated by the Nazi guards. 

In spite of some teething problems, Keith fought tooth and nail for his survival!

It's a brush with death in Ferg Handley's prisoner of war yarn, brought to life by the masterful Manuel Benet's art on the cover and interiors! 

Commando 5663: Home of Heroes: Tooth and Nail

Commando 5664: Gold Collection: Traitor's Gold

Story | Finley-Day | Art | Bellalta | Cover | Porto | Originally Commando No. 484 (1970).

Stolen gold always spells trouble. But in war, when every man is armed, and desperate characters are everywhere, the mere whisper of the word gold can set the trigger fingers itching and start a burning fever in the mind of every soldier. When such a fever strikes can any man be trusted?

Nothing says classic Commando like a double cross, and this Commando written by British comics legend Gerry Finley-Day has backstabbers abounds! 

Commando 5664: Gold Collection: Traitor's Gold

Commando 5665: Action and Adventure: Cadman: The Fighting Coward

Story | Andrew Knighton | Art | Mike Dorey | Cover | Mike Dorey & Neil Roberts

In comic pages for the first time since 1993, Cadman is back! Rebooting the classic Victor' hero', original artist Mike Dorey takes up his brush to recreate more daring and dastardly Cadman adventures.

In the autumn of 1914, the Anglo-French and German armies launched a series of flanking manoeuvres towards the Channel, as cowardly cavalry Lieutenant Gerald Cadman tries to trick his captain into leading them away from the fighting. But every attempt to flee takes them into fresh action, while Cadman's batman, Tom Smith, looks for ways to expose his deceptive master.

Commando is delighted to bring The Victor character Cadman back to comics with original artist Mike Dorey! And this is only the beginning because Cadman returns to Commando very soon – so keep your eyes peeled!

Commando 5665: Action and Adventure: Cadman: The Fighting Coward

Commando 5666: Silver Collection: Guerrilla!

Story | McDevitt | Art | Ibanez | Cover | Ian Kennedy | Originally Commando No. 1450 (1980).

The small band of freedom fighters were a very mixed bunch —Italian partisans, escaped prisoners-of-war, and Italian army deserters. Now they waited tensely for the signal to open fire on their target below.

That target was a convoy of German lorries, led by one of the most cruel and ruthless officers in the SS —a man hunted by both British and Italian alike. And they had sworn to make him pay dearly for all his crimes...

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so the saying goes, and nothing brings together a group like a McDevitt's murdering SS Commander! And with Ibanez and Ian Kennedy on art, this is one you don't want to miss!

Commando 5666: Silver Collection: Guerrilla!

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