Commando This Week: 5307-5310

New issues of Commando are out this week. From the desert dunes to soviet snow, with a shortcut through the Ardennes! There's plenty to get through as usual and issue 5307 has one of the best Commando covers we can remember by Keith Burns.

5307: Home of Heroes: Stealing Stukas 
Story | Andrew Knighton | Art | Klacik & Muller | Cover | Keith Burns

It’s all fun and games in the desert of North Africa for an odd trio in ‘Stealing Stukas’! Andrew Knighton’s story throws an RAF Intelligence officer with a chip on his shoulder, a posh RAF pilot, and a Luftwaffe pilot who’s also an artist, all into the same melting pot! Their mission: to capture and return with a Junkers 87 for the boffins at HQ to dissect. But when you’re working with an enemy pilot in the scorching desert, without authorisation… well what could go wrong?

5308: Gold Collection: Enemy in Disguise 
Story | CG Walker | Art | Gordon C Livingstone | Cover | Ian Kennedy | Originally Commando No. 680 (1972).

The Nazis are up to their old tricks in the Ardennes in CG Walker’s ‘Enemy in Disguise’! Kitted up in British and American uniforms, with American aircraft to boot — their goal is to sow confusion and mistrust between the allies and to cause some mayhem in the process. But the Germans and their nefarious plan hadn’t counted on Captain John Dixon’s dislike of Americans, along with a little help from a mysterious Cornishman called Longstraw and his pet crow!

5309: Action and Adventure: Red Snow 
Story | Jason Cobley | Art | Morhain & Defo | Cover | Neil Roberts

For the German soldiers advancing towards Stalingrad, they thought the cold and the biting hunger were the only things they had to worry about. But trapped in the howling blizzard, they felt as if they were being hunted, picked off one by one — the only clue to their missing comrades whereabouts a patch of red snow and trail of bloody pawprints. They were not alone in the dark wasteland, and their survival depended on their wits.

5310: Silver Collection: The Face of Courage 
Story | CG Walker | Art | Gordon C Livingstone | Cover | Ian Kennedy | Originally Commando No. 1505 (1981).

Following on from ‘Enemy in Disguise’, ‘The Face of Courage’ is the second Commando reprint this release week from the powerhouses of CG Walker, Gordon C Livingstone, and Ian Kennedy. And what a classic Commando the unshakeable trio produced! Set in North Africa, the yarn involves an archaeologist, some British soldiers and a young tribesman teaming up to quell a big Nazi push!