Commando This Week: 5347-5350

Commando Comics commemorates the 80-year anniversary of the Battle of Britain with issues 5347-5350, out soon. All the comics feature high-flying action with some stunning covers.

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5347: Home of Heroes: Flying Fever 
Story | Andrew Knighton | Art | Muller & Klacik | Cover | Ian Kennedy

With a terrific cover by aircraft enthusiast Ian Kennedy, this Commando tackles the toll of the constant fights and flights the pilots of the RAF endured during the Battle of Britain. The brave men were sometimes sent on up on several sorties a day with very little to no sleep, something writer Andrew Knighton plays upon in this nerve-wracking yarn.

5348: Gold Collection: Spitfire Spirit 
Story | CG Walker | Art | Medrano | Cover | Phillips | Originally Commando No. 1128 (1977).

Harry ‘Handlebar’ Hanley of the RAF found himself alone against six Black Eagles. They blasted his Spitfire full of holes, and Luftwaffe ace Kurt Krantz was sure his enemy would trouble him no more. But he was going to find out that the Spitfire spirit doesn’t die so easily! This classic Commando is a memorable issue to say the least and is the first of our Battle of Britain reprints!

5349: Action and Adventure: The Rejects 
Story | Jim & David Turner | Art | Carlos Pino | Cover | Carlos Pino

Jim and David Turner’s ‘The Rejects’ is a story that shows not every flyer fit neatly into the RAF. All manner of men took to the perilous skies in 1940, determined to defend the tiny British Isles from Goering’s fearsome aircraft armada. Different nationalities; British, Polish, Czech, French, and Irish pilots, like Michael O’Connor, banded together and lunged headfirst at the mass of Luftwaffe bombers and fighters — pilots who were equally determined to crush the Allies under their boots!

5350: Silver Collection: Cards of Fate 
Story | CG Walker | Art | Gordon C Livingstone | Cover | Phillips | Originally Commando No. 1230 (1982).

A seemingly supernatural threat intervenes as six ordinary playing cards are given to six ordinary pilots, marking them as good as dead! Just what was the terrifying power of darkness that cut this Hurricane squadron to pieces during those few weeks of the Battle of Britain? Another exciting — yet offbeat Commando from classic writer CG Walker, who gives the reader a story they are seldom likely to forget!