Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) comic books

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2637: Death Camp - Written by Ian Clark. Art by Luis Olivera. Cover by Alan Burrows. Barbed wire, watchtowers and searchlights -- the camp looked like any other POW cage...from the outside. But hidden behind the perimeter fence was a nightmare world where starved prisoners were forced to act as guinea pigs for the sadistic doctors of death! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2663: Hunger for Glory - Written by Ian Clark. Art and Cover by Jose Maria Jorge. Colonel John Devlin, USAF, had chased glory in three wars...but it had always passed him by. Now, in the savage air battles over war-torn Vietnam, he saw his final chance to grab it when a new pilot arrived -- a real hotshot, a born ace. There and then, Devlin decided that this top gun was going to be his ticket to glory...regardless of the cost of men and machines! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Ham-Fisted Hero - Written by Alan Hebden. Art and Cover by Carlos Pino. Young Wally Clegg was a nice lad but a bit of a clumsy clot. As soon as he got near a ham radio set, however, there was a veritable transformation and he became a communications wizard. And although he was bounced out of the Royal Signals Corps, if there was radio work to be done, Wally was there to do it. Now the Japs were poised to invade India and it looked like only Wally could send the message that would stop them. With the pressure on, would he be a wireless wonder or a...ham-fisted hero? Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Company of Pals - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Vila. Cover by Ian Kennedy. They marched off to war together, the young men of the town. Proud to serve their country and happy to be fighting alongside their mates. But the Western Front in the First World War was a place of nightmares, and the town's nightmare came true when the company of pals was wiped out. When the evil of war once more engulfed Europe, the military authorities made sure that, whatever casualties they had to suffer, never again would one town lose all its young men at once. It seemed, though, that fate hadn't got the message. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Operation Hammer - Written by Ferg Handley. Art by Keith Page. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Ramsey's Raiders are back! In this never-before-seen, declassified adventure, Captain Jimmy Ramsey and his Special Forces unit face one of their toughest challenges yet when the team are split up after a dangerous mission. Things look very grim indeed as Jimmy and co. search the hostile North African plains for their missing comrades. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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First to Fight! - Written by Ferg Handley. Art by Luis Olivera. Cover by Janek Matysiak. The ramp crashed down and the U.S. Marine spearhead troops launched themselves onto the beach and into a maelstrom of bullets and high explosives. Would they wrest control of the island from its fanatical Japanese occupiers? Would they even get off the beach? Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #12: The Desperate Days - Written by Elliot. Art by Gordon Livingstone. Cover by Ken Barr. They say the Allied army's retreat to Dunkirk produced more heroes than any other action in the war -- heroes in bunches of a dozen. Completely cut off, small bands of these hunted men battered their way savagely across France through the might of the Nazi army towards the meeting point, Dunkirk. The miracle of Dunkirk, it was called...and in this story is a reckoning of the blood and sweat and guts it took to work that miracle. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #1344: The Secret War - Written by R.A. Montague. Art by Arthur Fleming. Cover by Graeme Miller. Captain Tom Lawson and his band of French Resistance fighters waged a constant war against the Nazi occupiers. They needed nerves of steel as they outwitted the Gestapo time and time again. But when the day came for Tom to take a well-deserved break back in England, he could not leave, for his group's very existence was threatened by a traitor in the ranks. Tom had to find him before they were all captured...or killed! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #301: Johnny the Jinx - Written by Eric Hebden. Art by Matias Alonso. Cover by Lopez Espi. Gremlins, leprechauns -- call them what you like -- they all had it in for Lieutenant Johnny Dawson. He was the sort of bloke whose Sten would suddenly jam for no reason, or he'd be the one in a million who'd be issued with the grenade with a faulty fuse. Yes, Johnny had a real JINX. He didn't like it, the top brass didn't like it and, most important, Johnny's men didn't like it. In fact, if his luck didn't change soon, he'd have a mutiny on his hands. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Free French Ace - Written by Ferg Handley. Art by Rezzonico. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Although he had been born in France, Mike Perrin grew up in Great Britain and considered himself to be English. Furthermore, he blamed the French and their early surrender to Germany for the deaths of his parents. When Mike passed out as a fighter pilot, his Gallic heritage saw him posted -- mistakenly, he believed -- to a Free French squadron. He didn't want to be there and made no bones about it. This bad attitude was going to get him into a lot of trouble. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Mountain Warriors - Written by Alan Hebden. Art and Cover by Keith Page. They looked comical in their striped robes and leading their mules. But the Goumiers were soldiers through and through, fighting for France against all comers in North Africa. Make no mistake, these mountain warriors were silent, dangerous...and deadly! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Operation Anvil - Written by Ferg Handley. Art by Keith Page. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Ramsey's Raiders are in the bad books after a little fun at the expense of some arrogant American troops during a routine training exercise. There again, Captain Jimmy Ramsey and his Special Raiding Force team were never really ones for sticking to the rules. Every cloud has a silver lining, though, because it gave them the chance to get back to business with a dangerous mission to Norway -- one that would provide an unexpected opportunity to settle a score with an old enemy. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Duel over the Desert - Written by Ferg Handley. Art by Morahin. Cover by Ian Kennedy. High above the arid deserts of Egypt during the First World War, two Royal Flying Corps officers in their RE8 biplane were carrying out vital reconnaissance missions over the positions of their Turkish enemies. All was not running smoothly, though. Lieutenant Tim Blake was a decent enough pilot but got nervous under pressure. And he was teamed up with an abrasive know-it-all observer, Lieutenant Danny Woods. So far, it looked like a recipe for disaster. Could they ever stop fighting each other long to concentrate on the enemy? Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #11: Closer Than Brothers - Written by Eric Hebden. Art by Leopoldo Ortiz. Cover by Ken Barr. Tom, Dick and Harry. Three ordinary names, but what extraordinary blokes. A Scottish captain, an English sergeant and a corporal from the West Indies, they were probably the closest pals ever known in the British Army. And what fighters! No matter the odds, nothing was ever known to stop them. Between them, they had all the guts in the world. What a band of brothers! What a trio to belong to! Join them in this, the first of their amazing stories, told just as it happened. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #1196: Ace without Honour - Written by Bill Fear. Art by Gordon Livingstone. Cover by Ian Kennedy. It should have been an honour to fly as wingman to Philip Templeton. Wasn't he "The Shark" -- the sleek, efficient, deadly fighter ace? His boyish charm and good humour had won him many admirers, so why feel uneasy? Could it be you saw the other side of the man -- the cold, calculating glory-hunter who let nothing stand in his way, even murder? If the victim were an enemy in time of war, then that could be understandable, but what if The Shark's next victim was his wingman? Thats right -- you! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #234: Pirate Breed - Written by W. Spence. Art by C.T. Rigby. Cover by Lopez Espi. "Hey, Bluey!" The length and breadth of the China Seas, that's all he was called -- Bluey. Gold-smuggling, gun-running, he was a tough guy who took all kinds of chances in his fast old converted MTB to make a quick dollar. When the Australian Navy had a tough job to do and needed a guy who knew the China Seas backwards, had smuggling contacts on nearly every island, could handle a gun and take a chance in a thousand -- did they look among their own officers? "Hey, Bluey!" Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #471: Mighty Mike - Written by Cyril Walker. Art by Cam Kennedy. Cover by Ken Barr. Mighty Mike Mansell, top fighter ace, was the guy chosen as test pilot for the fastest aircraft produced for the RAF. The plane was so top secret that it didn't even have a name as Mike put it through its paces over the remote north of Scotland. Yet, despite all the security, the Nazis believed they could get their hands on the plane...and no wonder they were confident. Flying for the Luftwaffe was Mike's identical twin brother. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Swastika Squadron - Written by Norman Adams. Art and Cover by Keith Page. A bunch of RAF men fighting in planes with swastikas? Traitors, surely, flying German kites? Well, no. They were a group of Blenheim crews for whom a ferry flight turned into a fight for survival in planes carrying the sign of the crooked cross. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Mongrel Crew - Written by Mac MacDonald. Art and Cover by Carlos Pino. They were a mongrel crew, all right. Half-a-dozen men lumped together in a Mitchell bomber for the wrong reason -- a propaganda stunt. Though each had a score to settle with the enemy, they were not really expected to fight. But, when push came to shove, the mongrels would show they had a bite to match any pedigree hound. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Sky Sniper - Written by Ferg Handley. Art by Carlos Vila. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Soaring above the battlefields of the Western Front, the pilots of the Royal Flying Corps saw themselves as guardians of chivalry -- gentlemen fliers. So Lieutenant James Wilford, the pilot of a Farman MF11 Shorthorn, got a shock when he met his new observer, Captain Alan Kingston. This gun-toting, hardened veteran had already seen action in the trenches...and had no time for old-fashioned chivalry. If the Huns wanted a fight...they'd get one! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #10: Hun Bait - Written by Eric Castle. Art by Gordon Livingstone. Cover by Ken Barr. They were keeping him away from the front line -- a man like Sergeant Kelly! And yet this big Australian had such a deadly hatred for the enemy, it made him into a fighting fury -- a battling, raging, soldier supreme. But John Kelly was a trier, and exciting was the path he trod to defy authority and get his hands on the enemy's throat. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #1212: The Eye of Ra - Written by Mike Knowles. Art by Giralt. Cover by F.D. Phillips. It was carved on the wall of an ancient tomb -- The Eye of Ra, sun-god of Egypt. The legend said that if it gazed on anyone defiling the tomb, that person was doomed. The men who discovered it laughed at the idea, but one of them died violently and the others vanished without a trace! The war brought soldiers to Egypt, and among them was the brother of the dead man. From the moment his troop-train was ambushed until the moment he finally stood in that same tomb, Alan Fisher was to run into more dangers than he had ever thought possible. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #545: Diary of a Hero - Written by David Motton. Art by Cam Kennedy. Cover by Jordi Penalva. This story is taken from the pages of the diary of a true hero. It tells of seven men's fight to survive behind enemy lines with a traitor in their midst. It brings courage to life...and tells of bravery of the highest order. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 U.K.) #2774: Space Watch - Written by Ian Clark. Art by Ricardo Garijo. Cover by Ian Kennedy. A battle in outer space tests G-Tex Wolf Brady to the limit -- especially when a ruthless computer hacker makes his latest challenge even more dangerous! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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The Street Fighter - Written by Ferg Handley. Art by Luis Olivera. Cover by Janek Matysiak. Not every confrontation between United States Marines and the Imperial Japanese Army took place in the steamy jungles of the South Pacific. The battle for Manila in the Philippines was a house-to-house struggle, pure and simple. This didn't bother Marine Eddie Novak. In the war's early fighting, he'd lost buddies and now he was out for revenge, no matter when -- or where -- he got the chance. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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The Fighting Judge - Written by Alan Hebden. Art and Cover by Mike White. As a High Court judge, Mr. Justice Jardine had a fierce reputation as a hard man. Hard but fair. His judgements were respected even by those on the receiving end of a verdict. When he joined the Army's legal branch, he remained the same hard but fair man. His working environment changed, though. Gone were the wood-panelled courtrooms, replaced by tents or makeshift offices. And another thing changed, too. He picked up a rifle...to deadly effect. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Convict Commandos: Mask of Death - Written by Alan Hebden. Art and Cover by Manuel Benet. The Convict Commandos -- Jelly Jakes, Smiler Dawson, Titch Mooney -- and their leader Guy Tenby are back in action. This time they are planning to snatch a scientist from under the noses of the Nazis in occupied Europe. It's no easy job and, with treachery afoot, the prison sentences they're trying to avoid begin to look a very tempting alternative. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Attack from the East - Written by Tom Hart. Art by Rezzonico. Cover by Janek Matysiak. Most people would think that nothing much happened in the peaceful village of Helmsbeath, situated on a remote island on Scotland's North West coast. And most people would have been right to think that...until the fateful day in late 1944 when Helmsbeath was invaded. Invaded by the armed and dangerous crew of a Japanese C3 submarine and the crazed Nazi scientist who was with them! Would the villagers survive...an attack from the east? Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #9: Jungle Fury! - Written by Coughlin. Art by C.T. Rigby. Cover by Ken Barr. In the steaming jungles of Burma, man has a thousand enemies -- the wild animals, the snakes and poisonous insects, the deadly fevers. But the fighting British jungle patrols had an enemy more deadly that any of these -- the creeping Japanese soldiers who could appear from nowhere and sow the lead seeds of death before melting again into the waiting green background. But Sergeant Tom Flynn had his own way of silencing the Banzai cries of those Sons of Nippon. With a handful of men and a heart full of courage, he fought his way through them...and with him he brought a strange prize -- ten million pounds in solid gold. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #490: Six of the Best - Written by David Motton. Art by Ramon de la Fuente. Cover by Jordi Penalva. Six men -- five private soldiers who couldn't do a thing right and a brand-new Second Lieutenant who had never been in action. Left behind as a rearguard just in case the Jerries showed up, they landed in a hotter spot than anyone had bargained for...and became the most unlikely heroes of the Second World War! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #216: International Squadron - Written by Gordon Brunt. Art by Gordon Livingstone. Cover by Ken Barr. South Africans in Catalinas, French in Dewoitine fighters, British in Hurricanes -- what a terrific bunch they were! They fought among themselves, they scrapped with the enemy...and to crown it all, they had a German saboteur and spy in their midst creating more havoc! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #470: Dressed to Kill - Written by Nick Allen. Art by Ramon de la Fuente. Cover by Jordi Penalva. It was quite a sight to see Bert Morris ride to war over the parched desert sands in a battered, bucking jeep...with hundreds of bloodthirsty Arabs thundering along on horseback behind. Branded a coward by the Foreign Legion but labelled a hero by the British Army, Bert's story of how he raised this rebel army is now told for the first time. And what a story! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Deserter! - Written by Matt Badham. Art and Cover by Macabich. Abraham Brown's older brother Robert went off to serve in the Army of the North in the American Civil War...and he didn't come back. Abraham followed in his footsteps, grimly determined to avenge his brother's death. But when he discovered that it hadn't been enemy action that ended Robert's life but a pack of outlaws, he saw only one way to settle the score...and that meant deserting the flag he had signed up to serve. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Fire and Water - Written by Mac MacDonald. Art and Cover by Keith Page. John James came from a long line of Royal Navy men. Yet he chose to join the RAF as a pilot. It seemed, though, that his naval heritage didn't want to let him go. When he ditched his Hurricane in the English Channel, he thought it was a one-off incident. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Rebellion in the Raj - Written by Norman Adams. Art and Cover by Keith Page. Veteran war reporter Fred "Ferret" McGlone celebrates his landmark 100th birthday in style...and reminisces about his earliest days as a roving newshound on the shady, cobbled back streets of Victorian London. Naturally, that's only the half of it. What about Ferret's thrilling adventures on the high seas? Or his dangerous despatches from the front line chaos at the heart of the British Empire in India? Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #8: Red Runs the River - Written by Eric Hebden. Art by Rafael Auraleon. Cover by Ken Barr. Many and fearsome are the perils that can beset a man on a swift-flowing river after dark. Japanese river patrols knew all these dangers, but armed to the teeth, they feared none of them. Then, one dark night, there glided into that gleaming river a new menace that was to strike terror into every Japanese soldier -- a swimming Irishman with hatred in his heart and a Commando knife between his teeth. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #1402: Paratrooper - Written by R.A. Montague. Art by Jamie Blasco Romero. Cover by Ian Kennedy. They floated out of the sky into the fields of enemy-occupied France. For this crack team of British paratroopers, it was the moment of truth. Dropped miles from their objective, a handful of determined men on their special Wellbikes set off to complete their mission. The odds against them were incredible but they had no alternatives. The fight was on! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #252: Battling Bradley - Written by Lester. Art by Alfredo Sanchis Cortes. Cover by Roger Hall. It didn't matter very much what you gave Ken Bradley, boxer turned paratrooper, to fight with. His bare fists made him a match for a handful of Germans any day. But give him a gun, especially a Tommy gun, and he'd take on anything that had a swastika painted on it. Even a tank...or a pill-box! What a man to have at your side. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #454: Cossack - Written by Peter Newark. Art by Victor de la Fuente. Cover by Jordi Penalva. For centuries, the Cossack horsemen rode to war over the mighty Steppes, their sabers red with blood, their savage battle-cries chilling their enemies with fear. But their greatest battles came in the Second World War when they pitted horse and saber against Nazi tanks and machine guns. It was a hard, tough war, even for the Cossacks -- so you can guess what it was like for an RAF air-gunner who escaped from a German prison camp and rode with them! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Operation Leviathan - Written by Sean Blair. Art and Cover by John Ridgway. When the German onslaught forced France to capitulate in 1940, Frenchmen were forced to choose between co-existing with the invaders by serving the Vichy government or fighting on with the Allies. When Allied ships bombarded the French fleet to prevent it falling into German hands, killing many French sailors in the process, French loyalties were further divided. Which way would the crew of the mighty French submarine Leviathan -- with her twin eight-inch guns and ability to disappear below the waves -- go? Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Flak Alley - Written by Ferg Handley. Art by Vila. Cover by Ian Kennedy. In 1943, Pilot Officer Chris Buckley completed his photo-reconnaissance course and was delighted to be out of a stuffy classroom. Finally, he was at the controls of a P51 Mustang. As expected, he soon found himself dodging flak in the skies above German-occupied Europe. What he didn't expect was to be dodging even more flak from his CO who was convinced that Chris wasn't up to the job! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Guerrilla Ace - Written by Ferg Handley. Art by Morahin. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Karl Braun, a German fighter pilot who hates the Nazi regime, deserts and stows away on a ship to the Far East. When he gets to the Philippines, though, war has followed him and he finds himself a prisoner at a small jungle airstrip. His Australian captors want to hit back at the invading Japanese and hatch a plan to use a battered Avro Anson aircraft as a makeshift bomber. They also have a P40 Tomahawk fighter but no pilot...or do they? Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #298: Desert Monster - Written by Skentleberry. Art by Miguel Quesada. Cover by Lopez Espi. "No, Herr Hauptman, I have not been out in the sun too long. With my own eyes I saw it..it had six sides, as many guns as a pocket-battleship and moved like a great crab at about one hundred kilometres an hour. A tank? No, it wasn't a tank. It was more like a monster..." And after that report from a badly-frightened radio operator came into Nazi HQ, a wave of fear swept the desert. What was the Thing that struck from the shadows like a prehistoric beast? Only four men knew...and they were all listed as dead! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #1528: Lucky Larrigan - Written by Cyril Walker. Art by Enriquez. Cover by Ian Kennedy. A truckload of Italians who wanted only one thing -- to surrender. Theyd had enough of the war, getting shot at by their own side as well as the British, and now they simply wanted out. They would surrender to anyone who would have them. But what was that over there, glinting in the sun? A gold pocket-watch, and beside it an English pilot, staked out to die of thirst. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #7: The Ship They Couldn't Sink - Written by Gray. Art by Ferran Sostres. Cover by Ken Barr. The mighty German battle-cruiser lay silent in the Atlantic fog, waiting, her guns loaded and ready. And straight into this trap a convoy of heavily-laden merchant ships was sailing. On a radar screen, the German captain watched its progress with a grim smile. He was master of their fate and would spare not a single ship. But there was a gleam of hope for the convoy -- the gleam of the golden badge of the Royal Navy aboard one ship...a tiny ship. But crammed with British fighting courage. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #589: Escape! - Written by Cyril Walker. Art and Cover by Gordon Livingstone. Everyone knew Ted Whitmore was yellow. Everything he did proved it. He even got himself and his men captured and put in a prison cage. But then things began to happen -- things that made his men stare in amazement and the enemy run for their lives! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Army of Bandits - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Luis Olivera. Cover by Janek Matysiak. A squad of British Royal Engineers are dropped behind the lines to halt German demolition work in occupied Italy. Unfortunately, they end up miles from their target, deep in the rugged mountains of Calabria. To make matters worse, there's a Waffen SS unit on their tail...and they're caught in a violent feud between two warring Italian mountain clans! The Italians will have to put all their differences aside to fight alongside the British against the common enemy...but can they? Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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The Defector? - Written by Ferg Handley. Art and Cover by Keith Page. Lieutenant Levka Kosilev was a man of principle, a man who would repay a debt of honour. The Russian officer had only survived the dark days of World War II thanks to the actions of a brave American corporal and his squad. He knew how much he owed them. Some years later, Levka -- now an observer with the forces of the North during the Korean War -- unexpectedly found himself in a position to settle the debt. To do so, however, he would have to defect. Could he do it? Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Misfit Squad - Written by Mac MacDonald. Art and Cover by Carlos Pino. Dave, Brian, Pete and Sid were undoubtedly the worst soldiers their C.O. had ever come across. He doubted they would ever get through their basic training. But Sergeant Rod Black thought differently; he could see something in the four that no one else could. And one night in June, some 50 years ago, he and his misfit squad got the chance to prove him right...or wrong! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #368: Heads You Can't Lose - Written by Cyril Walker. Art by Jose de la Fuente. Cover by Jordi Penalva. When Ned Dolan flicked a penny in the air and David Bradford called tails, it looked as though he had signed his own death warrant -- for the loser was to become bait for a deadly German sniper. And Dolan had never -- but never -- lost a toss with this special penny. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #869: A Stirling Called Satan - Written by R.A. Montague. Art by Mira. Cover by Keith Walker. It was dead unlucky, that Stirling bomber. Flying low it would catch most of the flak, flying high it was certain to be pounced on by enemy fighters. Every time the crew set off on another mission, they wondered if it was going to be their last. Even its number, five-three-five, added up to thirteen. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #6: They Came by Night - Written by Coughlin. Art by Ros. Cover by Ken Barr. Without warning, the periscope of a U-boat broke the surface. It turned and focused on the Locksea Lighthouse. Then, slowly, the glistening, black hull of the submarine came up from the depths. No one could deny the courage and cool cheek of the Nazi Commander who had made up his mind to capture this vital link in the guiding of our Atlantic convoys. Then, into what was to be the most fantastic episodes of the war, sailed Skipper Jimmy Cleeves and his RAF rescue launch K20. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #982: The Cop Who Went to War - Written by R.A. Montague. Art by Ibanez and Igual. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Dave Marley was a policeman and proud of it. When the war came, he joined the Military Police and found that a lot of soldiers acted just like the blokes in civvy street who didn't want to know a copper until they had trouble. But now, there was more than brawls and bank robbers to think about. There were difficult problems to be tackled with the added danger of shells and bullets crashing all around. Yes, it was a tough job, being a Military policeman. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Codename Houdini - Written by Mac MacDonald. Art by Rezzonico. Cover by Janek Matysiak. Andor Lakatos and his two younger brothers were a popular circus escapology touring Eastern Europe just before the start of the Second World War. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, the three brothers were caught up in the chaos. Andor, in particular, was drawn against his will into wartime espionage, and given the codename Houdini after the great escapologist. With danger at every corner, it seemed unlikely even Andor could escape this murky world of shadows and treachery. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Talk...or Die!' - Written by Tom Hart. Art and Cover by Manuel Benet. It seemed a straightforward job, risky but straightforward. Flying a helicopter full of gold out of South Vietnam before the advancing North Vietnamese army got their hands on it. As an ex Australian Air Force chopper pilot, Brendan Beckett thought the job would give him no real trouble. So how did he come to be tied to a post, knee-deep in rising water? Well, its a long story. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.