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  • Issue #4875
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4875

    Deadly Pursuit - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Morahin. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Cut off from their unit, Second-Lieutenant Bob Holbeck and Private Vic Jolly were trying to get out of battle-ravaged Malaya for the relative safety of Sumatra. Hooking up with a rag-tag group of survivors, they commandeered a Model T Ford pick-up truck and fled. In a retreat already fraught with danger, they would also have to escape from the clutches of the Kempeitai -- the feared Japanese secret police...and they were hot on their tail. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4876
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4876

    Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #188: Night Prowl - Written by Magee. Art by Jose Bielsa. Cover by Ken Barr. Jim Fraser was a born Commando. Tough, dependable, daring. But there came a day when they stripped him of his Commando shoulder flashes and his beloved green beret. They took away his tommy gun and gave him a shovel. Almost before he knew it, he was transferred to the pick and shovel brigade, the Pioneer Corps. Rough treatment for a fellow who had made just one mistake. You can't win battles leaning on a shovel, but Jim soon had those pioneers chucking away their shovels and desperate to get at Nazi throats. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4877
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4877

    Tunnels of Death - Written by Richard Davis. Art by Olivera. Cover by Janek Matysiak. When he was drafted to serve in the Vietnam war, young Joe Wright was nicknamed "Stumpy" because of his small stature. However, his lack of height unexpectedly became an asset. Recruited to join the ranks of Rat 6 -- the elite "Tunnel Rats" who fought the Vietcong enemy in a labyrinth of claustrophobic caverns -- Joe soon discovered that lethal danger lurked beneath the surface as well as above it. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4878
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4878

    Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2383: Polish Pilot - Written by Allan Chalmers. Art by Terry Patrick. Cover by Ian Kennedy. At last, Karl Latek had a real plane to fly against the Luftwaffe's Messerschmitts. He had piloted his dated Polish PZL-11 against the Germans and been outclassed. Now his Hurricane was a joy to handle, and he was on level terms with the murderers of his family and friends. All he wanted was vengeance -- and nothing and nobody would stop him. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4879
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4879

    Convict Commandos: Banquet of Blood - Written by Alan Hebden. Art and Cover by Manuel Benet. Budapest, 1945. Why is Doctor Jane Mallory poised to attack her cowardly colleague, "Jelly" Jakes? The answer is at the heart of the latest mission for the Convict Commandos. They must uncover a dangerous secret which turns normal soldiers into crazed, ravenous hordes capable of killing anything -- or, indeed, anyone -- who gets in the way of their desire to eat. Is this the Commandos' most terrifying adventure yet? Jelly definitely thinks so! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4880
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4880

    Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #227: Showdown! - Written by W. Spence. Art by C.T. Rigby. Cover by Lopez Espi. Everybody had thought a lot of Inspector Harry Andrews of the Malayan Police. He was a real man, all guts. Pity he had been captured and probably killed by the Japanese when the invasion over-ran his outpost. He'd put up quite a fight, though. Then, there was his brother, Colin -- just a war correspondent, not a fighting soldier. He'd never be half the man Harry was, they said. Even though he got himself on a desperate mission to the district in Malaya where his brother had disappeared...but they didn't really know Colin Andrews. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4881
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4881

    Death Drop - Written by Ferg Handley. Art and Cover by Keith Page. In 1944, Allied forces in Southern Italy met fierce resistance from the German defenders who fought bitterly from the cover of the mountains and hills. When a British airborne unit was tasked with landing behind enemy lines and hampering the German escape, this seemed straightforward. However, Captain Roy Hopkins soon found out the hard way that nothing ever went according to plan. He and his men would have to fight every step of the way if they were to complete their mission. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4882
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4882

    Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2469: Another Tight Spot... - Written by Alan Hemus. Art by Ricardo Garijo. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Andy Leslie had known all along that he would have to face danger when he volunteered to serve with the Parachute Regiment. That had turned out to be the way of it, with Andy battling his way clear from one tight spot after another with the famous Red berets. Nobody had ever warned him that he might end up in the sea, bobbing about in a dinghy. There was nothing predictable in any day of Andy's war. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4883
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4883

    Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #708: Old Rusty - Written by Powell. Art by Gordon Livingstone. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Dick Avery was a captain in the Merchant Navy. He'd sailed with some of the best -- and worst -- ships and crews on the seven seas. He reckoned he'd seen it all. That was before he took command of Old Rusty, an ancient tub with a crew made up of drunks, brawlers and raw seamen of every nationality. When Dick left Gibraltar, he didn't fancy his chances of ever seeing England again. But then they ran into a German U-boat, and he wouldn't have swapped that ship or that crew for the best in the Royal Navy! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4884
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4884

    Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #212: The Wreckers - Written by W. Spence. Art by Matias Alonso. Cover by Scholler. Young Naval lieutenant Dan Blain teamed up with Kang Wu and his cut-throat pirates of the Java Seas to wage all-out war on the warships of Japan. When this pair of modern buccaneers got going, not a single Japanese sailor ashore or afloat could sleep soundly. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4885
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4885

    Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #629: The Black Eagle - Written by C.G. Walker. Art by Cam Kennedy. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Major Heinrich Keil of the Luftwaffe was an ace...and a killer. A mad, evil Nazi whose chief delight was to hunt and kill, whether he was chasing animals on the ground or British pilots in the air. Now he was going after another British pilot, but this time he was going to hunt him down in the forest...with a crossbow. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4886
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4886

    Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2474: The Wrong Enemy - Written by Ian Clark. Art and Cover by Keith Shone. The Italians fighting in North Africa clashed not only with their British foes, but also with their German allies. Enzo Lanzini certainly wasn't happy facing the advance of British armour across the desert, but he certainly was no coward either. It was just that he had seen the way the Nazis operated, and he had come to the conclusion that he was in fact fighting...the wrong enemy! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4887
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4887

    Out of Time - Written by George Low. Art by Rezzonico. Cover by Janek Matysiak. It seemed that the Grossin brothers couldn't be more different. Marc was a mild-mannered watchmaker -- the occupying German garrison had used his skills to mend various timepieces dotted around their base. Meanwhile, his younger brother, Bernard, was a member of the local French Resistance and he had begun to wonder if Marc was getting too friendly with the Nazis. That was the least of Bernard's worries, though. During a shoot-out at a ruined churchyard, he wondered if he was finally...out of time! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4888
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4888

    Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #220: Codeword - 'Torch' - Written by Eric Hebden. Art by Victor de la Fuente. Cover by Ken Barr. One man held the key to the operation called by the codeword "TORCH" -- the huge Allied invasion of North Africa. His name was Pete Macrory, a Canadian in the Royal Engineers -- and nobody trusted him an inch. To find out why, and what made Pete tick in his own peculiar way, you had to go way back to General Wolfe's attack on Quebec in 1759. That's when a distant ancestor of Pete's, young Jock Macrory, was involved in a deadly adventure of his own. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4889
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4889

    Polish Pride - Written by George Low. Art and Cover by Carlos Pino. When their unit was wiped out in the Blitzkrieg that heralded the beginning of World War II, Lieutenant Bartek Abramski and Sergeant Jakub Brejnak reluctantly found themselves on the run from the Germans. These proud Uhlan cavalrymen were determined to survive and live to continue their fight another day. As time wore on, though, the chances of this seemed increasingly slim. However, when they teamed up with a downed pilot, a fellow Pole, it looked like they might have a chance to escape the clutches of the enemy. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4890
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4890

    Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2470: Dive and Kill! - Written by Ian Clark. Art by Terry Patrick. Cover by Ian Kennedy. It took nerves of steel to survive in the deadly skies over war-torn Europe -- Pilot Officer Chris Bennet had proved that. Or so his fellow pilots thought. They reckoned he was the bravest guy they knew. But even steel can break, and so could Chris. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4891
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4891

    Convict Commandos: Cossack Vengeance - Written by Alan Hebden. Art and Cover by Manuel Benet. Once more, the Convict Commandos' latest mission had placed them in grave danger. The Germans, in league with a Russian traitor and a horde of fearsome, renegade Cossack warriors, had concocted an assassination plot that would turn the tide of the war. Now all Jelly Jakes and the rest of the Commando team had to do was foil the enemy plan...but that was easier said than done. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4892
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4892

    Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #196: Break Through! - Written by Skentleberry. Art by Buylla. Cover by Lopez Espi. Time after time, one British company outsmarted the Germans in Crete. If the Nazis planned a sneak-raid and began it five miles away, the British knew at once -- and were ready for them. If a Stuka dive-bombing attack was decided on, they got into hiding an hour before it began. They knew exactly when to counter-attack, too. How was it done? If anyone had told the Germans, they just wouldn't have believed it. The secret lay in a strange invisible link between Private Bill Roberts and his twin brother, Jack. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4893
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4893

    Do Your Duty - Written by Steve Taylor. Art by Carlos Vila and Muller. Cover by Ian Kennedy. By October 1945, World War II was over but some British forces were redeployed to the island of Java to support Allied troops in a battle with Nationalist guerrillas. The beleaguered men had expected to have been back home by now and some refused to fight. RAF mechanic Danny Cullen was stuck in the middle -- he wanted to do his duty but was continually intimidated by those who had downed tools. Meanwhile, as skirmishes with the guerrillas continued, Flight Lieutenant James Haldane made sure that he carried some grenades in his Auster spotter aircraft. You never knew when you might need them. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4894
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4894

    Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2482: Red Alert - Written by Ian Clark. Art by Carlos Pino. Cover by Phil Gascoine. Facing the brunt of the massive German invasion of Russia in June 1941 were the lowly Red Army conscripts. Poorly fed, trained and equipped, they were still expected to repel Hitler's previously undefeated armies...and could expect the harshest of punishments if they failed. So, join two of these hard-pressed heroes in their trench and see for yourself what it was like. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4895
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4895

    Home Front Heroes - Written by George Low. Art by Morahin. Cover by Ian Kennedy. The crew of a Boulton Paul Defiant night-fighter were puzzled. Why was an Airspeed Oxford trainer aircraft flying above England under cover of darkness? The gunner wondered if perhaps something secretive was going on. How right he was. But there was no way that he could have known that the Oxford was being flown by a German crew, and was an integral part of an audacious plan by the Nazis to snatch back one of their spies. At times, the Home Front was almost as dangerous as the Front Line. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4896
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4896

    Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #198: The Great Escape - Written by W. Spence. Art by Victor de la Fuente. Cover by Scholler. Ted Malloy knew him as Corporal Don Granger of the Australian Army -- his best pal, young, dark-haired and full of spirit. The Kachins, a Burmese tribe, knew him as "Urgu" -- their Holy Man, chief and river god, tall with a lined face, bronzed skin, a mop of snow-white hair, and no memory of any past. Ted and Don were the only two men ever to escape from "Death Valley," the dreaded Japanese labour camp, where men died by inches under the blazing sun and the whips of the guards. The tale of how Ted got clear and how Don became Urgu truly is a thrilling one. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4897
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4897

    The Mortar Boys - Written by Mark Blackham. Art by Vicente Alcazar. Cover by Janek Matysiak. Brothers Vic and George Adams were part of a Pacific Expeditionary Force mortar team. They had been tasked with engaging the Japanese on Mono Island in the South Pacific. Their superior officer, Lieutenant Jeff Danten, was not keen on mortars, seeing them as a waste of time compared to a decent machine-gun. It didn't help that Danten was also impatient and reckless, too eager to get into battle without decent tactics. It looked like the Mortar Boys had more than just the enemy to worry about. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4898
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4898

    Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #1108: Fight to the Last - Written by Nick Allen. Art by Mones. Cover by Ian Kennedy. When Fred Burke made a vow to his dead mate that he would fight to the last to see the war won, it wouldn't be his fault if the Allies lost, for Fred was a man of his word. So in Fred's book, anything went -- like breaking out of a prison camp for a start; then, after commandeering a civilian vehicle, battling alongside the partisans to hold a vital bridge. Fred just went on fighting and fighting. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4899
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4899

    Massacre in Malaya - Written by George Low. Art by Olivera and Rodriguez. Cover by Janek Matysiak. In the arid jungles of Malaya in 1941, British and Commonwealth forces held out against the relentless advance of the Japanese. Private Josh Combe and his unit were determined to protect the life of a civilian boy who had been left silent, traumatised and alone by the murderous actions of a pair of enemy officers. In a last-ditch attempt to get to friendly territory, they would have to take to the river to survive. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #4900
    Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) 4900

    Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #239: Sailor with Wings - Story and Art by Peter Ford. Cover by Buccheri. Lieutenant-Commander Jim Treggaron, pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, had the blood of the old Cornish pirates in his veins -- or so his men said. Otherwise, he'd never have tried to organise his Swordfish squadron to operate from a little beach in Greece. They were supposed to fly from their aircraft carrier. However, Jim found a bunch of tough Resistance helpers, a cave full of old R.A.F. fuel and ammo, and a beach long enough for take-off. The Italian navy was in handy range, so zooming into action went the...sailor with wings! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.