Commando Collection - issues 5995-5998

In celebration of the upcoming 6,000th issue of Commando, we’re bringing readers a special set of previous landmark issues. Issues 5995-5998 are on sale Thursday 24^th September.

5995 (Home of Heroes): Traitor From The Sky

 High over Austria, four men swung silently on their parachutes, tense and nervous. Already the operation was going wrong – their Dakota, hit by enemy fighters, was plunging in flames to the ground. They had only gotten out by the skin of their teeth, and now they were miles from their objective. Yes, they had problems.

And they had one other big problem too. Although three of them didn’t know it, the fourth man was an enemy agent.

Story: O’Connell

Internal Art: Mira

Cover Art: Ian Kennedy

First published 1976 as No.1000

5996 (Gold): Take Your Chance!

Be alert. Be ready for action. If a chance comes, take it! That’s how you survive in times of war.

More than once, Joe Carter had been in a seemingly hopeless situation. Each time, by sheer luck, he’d made it. But this time it looked really bad. He’d been captured by the Germans and was to play a vital role in a Nazi plot — as a dead man!

Story: Bernard Gregg

Internal Art: Blasco

Cover Art: Jeff Bevan

First published 1986 as No.2000

5997 (For Action and Adventure): Deadly Deal

Many centuries before the Second World War rocked Italy, an evil man made a deadly deal to protect his vast wealth… a deal, some said, with the devil himself.

And, now, as the Allied armies fought their way up through Italy in 1944, another man — a British lieutenant — was being forced to make his own deadly deal in an attempt to buy bravery.

These two men had nothing else in common, but their fate was to be linked in an eerie, startling way…

Story: CG Walker

Internal Art: Vila

Cover Art: Phil Gasgoine

First published 1996 as No.3000

5998 (Silver): Aces All!

In 1963, four Allied airmen from the Second World War meet at a funeral in Los Angeles. They don’t know each other, but each man knew the deceased — Czechoslovakian ace Franz Nekovar.

None of the men remembered Franz fondly — he may have been a damned fine pilot, deadly and skilled, but he was a maverick, and his disregard for the rules turned his peers against him. Just what were their vendettas… Find out in Commando’s 4000th issue!

Story: Ferg Handley

Internal Art: Jose Maria Jorge

Cover Art: Jose Maria Jorge

First published 2007 as No. 4000