Commando Comics This Week: 5695-5698

For those who enjoy war stories, I highly recommend checking out the latest issues of Commando Comics. Every issue is unique in terms of its setting, theme, and style, but they all share a common passion for adventure and action. Whether you prefer the trenches of World War One, the skies of World War Two, or maybe even the mountains of Italy, there is something for everyone to enjoy.

Commando Issues 5695 – 5698 are on sale Thursday 9th November! Featuring two World War One Issues for Remembrance Day alongside two rip-roaring reprints!

Commando 5695: Home of Heroes: Monty's Marauder's: Machine-gun Mayhem

Story | Ferg Handley | Art | Carlos Pino | Cover | Carlos Pino

The fighting men of the First World War are back, as Monty's Marauders return to wreak havoc on the Kaiser's men!

Autumn 1915, and Second Lieutenant Aubrey Monteith's superiors have planned a local offensive aimed at reducing a salient and straightening out the British lines. This meant plenty of work for the Marauders, as they were sent behind enemy lines to take out the enemy's machine guns ahead of the battalion's attack. That is… if things went to plan!

The Kaiser and his men had better watch out! Monty Marauder's return to wreak havoc in no-man's-land against the German lines in Ferg Handley's returning series! With Carlos Pino's outstanding artwork on the cover and interiors, you won't want to miss this jaunt! 

Commando 5696: Gold Collection: Sea Snatch

Story | Clegg | Art | Amador | Cover | Ian Kennedy | First Published 1970 as Issue 502

It's hard to leave a mate in the lurch, especially when he's wounded and behind German lines. It's hard to forget he ever existed, even when you're waging war against the hated Nazis.

That's the spot Eric Carlsson and Chris Borge, two Norwegians who'd escaped to fly for the RAF, were in. They planned and plotted to rescue their friend who'd been left behind in Norway… even when they knew it meant disobeying orders and being called traitors and spies!

After all, he was their mate… 

What a reprint this is! Clegg writes a tale as old as time about friends not leaving a man behind — no matter the cost! The bright and intense cover to 'Sea Snatch' is by the legendary Ian Kennedy and the clean, crisp interiors are by Amador! You put that all together and you get one heck of a classic Commando!

Commando 5697: Action and Adventure: Cadman: Up, Up and Away!

Story | Andrew Knighton | Art | Mike Dorey | Cover | Mike Dorey and Bryn Houghton

November 1914. As the fighting heats up on the Western Front, Lieutenant Gerald Cadman realises he is in real danger of having to fight in the war! But this cowardly cad has a cunning plan to escape battle yet again — take to the skies! 

Little does he know that flying an 'unarmed' reconnaissance plane makes him a target for falling bricks and fired bullets from the rival German kites! 

That cowardly cad returns! From the pages of The Victor to Commando, Cadman the Fighting Coward looks skyward to escape the trenches — but he soon finds that life in the Royal Flying Corps isn't any easier or safer than on the ground! 

Commando 5698: Silver Collection: The Reckoning

Story | CG Walker | Art | Gordon C Livingston | Cover | K Walker | First Published 1981 as Issue 1521

Alan and Dick had been friends for years. They were boys at the same school together. Alan was the quiet one. Not very interested in sport, he was usually to be found reading a book. Dick was the happy-go-lucky type, always playing football, tennis or cricket. Everybody reckoned Dick would make a better soldier than Alan.

But the day of reckoning came. It was in the mountains of Italy, with the war raging fiercely all around. A lot of secrets were revealed that day — and no-one was more surprised than Alan. 

On its first outing since 1980, The Reckoning returns to Commando pages! But don't be fooled into thinking that because it's been on the shelves for over 40 years that this yarn has gone stale! With twists, turns and a lot of action — you'll be annoyed we didn't reprint it sooner!