Commando This Week: Convict Commandos, infiltrating a POW camp, Italian partisans in the Adriatic & an invading kriegsmarine crew in Scotland
Brand new Commando issues #5123-5126 are coming soon and they're as action packed as ever! Commando #5123 follows Convict Commandos hunt ‘wolf warriors’; Commando #5124 is infiltrating a POW camp full of bloodthirsty Nazi fanatics; Commando #5125 is Jeff Anderson's debut issue on art as the commandos team up with Italian partisans in the Adriatic; Commando #5126 has the commandos taking out an invading kriegsmarine crew on a remote Scottish island.
Check out the preview for each issue below as the as usual stunning covers.
5123: Home of Heroes: Convict Commandos: Wolf Warriors
Story | Alan Hebden | Art | Manuel Benet | Cover | Manuel Benet
The Convict Commandos are back! Join Guy, Titch, Smiler, Mallory and Jelly for their latest adventure. Tracking down Nazi super soldiers known as the 'wolf warriors', Guy and his gang must cross the Lundendorff Bridge and march straight into enemy territory, luring the warriors out by using themselves as bait!
Alan Hebden's latest instalment in his fan-favourite Convict Commando series does not disappoint! Flick through the pages of Manuel Benet's masterful artwork and feel part of the adventure.
5124: Gold Collection: Under the Wire
Story | Allan | Art | Alonso | Cover | Penalva | Originally Commando No. 460 (February 1970). Reprinted No. 1295 (February 1979).
British Lieutenant Pete Smith had a plan: he would don the stolen uniform of an SS soldier, speak like a Nazi, and infiltrate a German POW camp in an effort to prevent a break out. The only problem was SS Captain Gustav Siegel, who had marked Pete for revenge and happened to be trapped with alongside him behind the barbed wire fence of the camp. Maybe Pete would need help escaping after all…
Penalva's bold cover uses thick slabs of colour on a blood-red background, readying any reader to Allan and Alonso's adrenaline packed issue inside!
5125: Action and Adventure: E-Boat Strike!
Story | George Low | Art | Jeff Anderson | Cover | Janek Matysiak
After the Allies invaded Italy in 1943, the majestic waters of the Adriatic Sea were some of the most dangerous in the world. Crawling with Italian MAS boats, now faster and deadlier than they when the terrorised the Austro-Hungarian Navy in World War One, the only thing worse in the water was the lethal German E-boats that lurked like vultures, waiting to pick off their prey…
Jeff Anderson's debut issue shows off his expert artwork and eye for detail, kicking off an explosive career with Commando. Paired with a story by former editor George Low and seasoned cover artist Janek Matysiak, this issue is an asset to any collection.
5126: Silver Collection: Home Guard Hero
Story | Burden | Art | Gordon C Livingstone | Cover | Ian Kennedy | Originally Commando No. 2791 (September 1994).
When a Nazi U-boat invades the small island of Beagsay in Scotland, the townsfolk's only hope of rescue is in Alec Fraser's Home Guard squad. After the rest of the platoon leave the island for a training exercise, Alec is left with only the dregs of military support: seventeen year olds Iain Bissett and David Macaskell, and sexagenarian fishermen Jock and Hamish McColl. But when push came to shove they'd show the Nazis that they came to the wrong island!
If ‘Dad's Army’ was cranked up to ten, it would be Burden's ‘Home Guard Hero’. With the stakes higher than ever, the cruelty of the Nazi CO is written all over Gordon C Livingstone’s interior artwork, while Ian Kennedy's cover centres on our brave Tommy hero defending the island he holds so dear.
