Commando 5967 to 5970 – Subs from £15

Commando

This week’s action-packed Commando set features a brand-new Rayker story and a
deadly battle between a Churchill and a Tiger I tank in the unforgiving North African
Desert. Issues 5967-5970 are on sale Thursday 18 th June.
Also, new to Commando from the 14 th June, readers can buy Commando issues
direct from dcthomsonshop.co.uk with FREE delivery!

5967 (Home of Heroes): Rayker: Back in The Ranks
Sergeant Moses Rayker, a black man in a white man’s army, fights two wars: one
against the Germans and another against racism within the segregated American
military.
After extreme losses during the German surprise attack in the Ardennes,
General John Lee asks for something new from Santa — Infantry volunteers. Race
isn’t important, he says, but anyone who joins needs to be a private or PFC.
It took Rayker five years to earn his stripes, but those guys need a leader, and
to be one, he’ll need to be… Back in The Ranks!
Story: Simon Topping
Internal Art: Mike Dorey
Cover Art: Mike Dorey & Grant Wood

5968 (Gold): Dive After Dark
There wasn’t a bomber squadron in North Africa that could outfly the Fleet Air
Arm outfit who called themselves “Buckley’s Bats”. Every pilot was an ace and every
navigator could find his way across the desert blindfolded.
And the planes these supermen flew? Well, they were Fairey Albacores —
cumbersome biplanes with a top speed of only 160 mph. Nobody, no matter how
good, could win a war flying kites like that… or could they?
Story: Brunt
Internal Art: Mira
Cover Art: Ian Kennedy
First published 1972 as No.616

5969 (For Action and Adventure): Desert Duel
North Africa, early 1943. Following a raid on a German outpost, the crew of a
Churchill tank nicknamed Lancelot find themselves isolated in the desert. Damaged
and relentlessly pursued by a Tiger I tank, their attempt to rejoin their formation turns
into a life-or-death struggle against the German tank, and eventually between the
commanders of the two crews. As vultures circle overhead, this can only end in a…
Desert Duel.
Story: Andrew Knighton

Internal Art: Carlos Pino
Cover Art: Keith Burns

5970 (Silver): The Sleeping Tiger
 
All his life, Jim Slater had been able to sleep anywhere at any time – at home,
at school, even at work. If he had the chance to nod off, he took it, and was soon
dozing. Well, tigers like to catnap too, don’t they? And that’s what Jim turned out to
be – a sleeping tiger.
Story & Internal Art: Anglo
Cover Art: Philpott
First published 1985 as No. 1874

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