Commando This Week: 5275-5278

Author: Ben Williams

Reading time: 2 minutes

New issues of Commando are out this week, with issues 5275 - 5278 hitting shelves on Thursday 31st October. It's a big week, as a new team of military characters make their Commando debut in issue 5275, with A-Force. There's also the halloween themed issue 5277 with Commando vs Zombies.

5275: Home of Heroes: A-Force 
Story | Ferg Handley | Art | Carlos Pino | Cover | Carlos Pino

From the mind that brought you ‘Ramsey’s Raiders’ comes ‘A-Force’! A modern day Commando following the exploits of Jack Ramsey, Grandson of Captain Jimmy Ramsey of Ramsey’s Raiders fame. Given a crew of his own, operating behind enemy lines, fighting terrorists — can Jack live up to his grandfather’s reputation or will he be trapped living in his shadow?

Commando 5275: Home of Heroes: A-Force

5276: Gold Collection: Castle Sinister 
Story | CG Walker | Art | CT Rigby | Cover | Penalva | Originally Commando No. 753 (1973).

It’s 1944, and the Odd Bod Squad are pushing into Germany with the rest of the Allied invasion.  Little do they know that some diabolical Germans have a last ditch plan to halt the invasion once and for all with something called the ‘Red Death Virus’. The virus is so deadly it could kill a person before they finished their final breath. And where were they developing this virus?  In Castle Sinister, of course!

Commando 5276: Gold Collection: Castle Sinister

5277: Action and Adventure: Commandos Vs Zombies 
Story | Georgia Standen Battle | Art | Vicente Alcazar | Cover | Ian Kennedy

Commando goes Horror for Halloween! A routine raid on a heavy water plant in Norway goes horrifically awry for a team of Commandos when they come face to face with a horde of flesh-eating zombies! A Commando issue of firsts, the Halloween issue features the first Commando comic to push the limits of art and production with edge to edge art where the only bleeds come from the zombies!

Commando 5277: Action and Adventure: Commandos Vs Zombies

5278: Silver Collection: Death’s Head 
Story | John Paterson | Art | Garijo | Cover | Ian Kennedy | Originally Commando No. 2914 (1995).

A gang of ruthless SS Death’s Head soldiers led by a savage officer called Karl Schwarz are on the loose in Bavaria, hunting and killing whoever they please. On their trail is a Wehrmacht Oberleutnant named Werner Lang, whose life depends on him catching them! If he doesn’t he’ll be up in front of an American firing squad on the charge of murder.

Commando 5278: Silver Collection: Death’s Head

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