COMMANDO 1970

(POCKET HOMEPAGE)

Created: February 1st 2005

All the Commando titles for 1970  (449 – 520)

 

No price increase.

Decimalization year.

 

Ian Kennedy did his first of many covers, with 453 ‘Seek and Strike’, taking over the mantle of Ken Barr.

Ken had been doing less covers since 1968.

Mackay did the last of his two covers with 518 ‘Battle Buggy’.

 

Regular cover artists this year were:

Ken Barr, Buccherri, Chicharro, Ramon de la Fuente, Lopez Espi, Fernando, Gonzalez, Ian Kennedy, Gordon Livingstone, Longaron, Mackay, Jordi Penalva, Porto.

 

Favourite cover:

I like 495 ‘The Flying Fox’ Ian Kennedy.   

 

JANUARY

449

450 (1271)

451 (1291)

452 (1283)

453 (1307)

454 (1275)

WANTED – DEAD OR ALIVE

TUNNEL OF DOOM

SKY SHARK

THE SWORD SHALL DECIDE

SEEK AND STRIKE

COSSACK

FEBRUARY

455

456 (1299)

457 (1303)

458 (1311)

459 (1327)

460 (1295)

NIGHT MISSION

BLACK ZERO

HITLER’S DOUBLE

AND EVERYWHERE THAT CASEY WENT

HAIL OF STEEL

UNDER THE WIRE

MARCH

461 (1319)

462 (1315)

463 (1323)

464 (1331)

465 (1347)

466

TRAP FOR A TRAITOR

OPERATION

DEATH SLIDE

MIDNIGHT MENACE

JUNGLE DROP

CLASH OF ACES

LONE AVENGER

APRIL

467 (1343)

468 (1359)

469 (1335)

470 (1387)

471 (1355)

472

STAND AND FIGHT

DEADLY RENDEZVOUS

DEATH OF A WIMPEY

DRESSED TO KILL

MIGHTY MIKE

THE SWAMP RATS

MAY

473 (1375)

474 (1363)

475 (1351)

476 (1371)

477 (1435)

478

STOLEN SPITFIRE

CASTLE OF DOOM

FIGHTING KID McCOY

FINGER ON THE BUTTON

THE MAD MAJOR

V.C. FOR A COWARD

JUNE

479 (1380)

480

481 (1419)

482 (1419)

483 (1367)

484

TAKE THIS KNIFE…

LOW LEVEL ACE

DEAD-EYE DONOVAN

FLYING FROGMAN

SHOOTING STAR

TRAITOR’S GOLD

JULY

485 (1396)

486 (1451)

487 (1388)

488

489 (1436)

490 (1379)

ATLANTIC PATROL

MEDAL FOR A MULE

HEROE’S HILL

MISSION OF NO RETURN

ACES WILD

SIX OF THE BEST

AUGUST

491 (1427)

492 (1412)

493

494 (1500)

495

496 (1411)

LAST LAUGH

THE HERO WAS A FAKE

VENGEANCE TRAIL

TRAIL BLAZERS

THE FLYING FOX

THE DESPERATE MEN

SEPTEMBER

497

498 (1403)

499 (1428)

500 (1420)

501

502 (1467)

SKY BANDITS

Z SQUAD

TERROR OF THE JAPS

FRIEND OR FOE?

DANGER AT DAWN

SEA SNATCH

OCTOBER

 

503 (1452)

504

505 (1460)

506 (1445)

507 (1572)

508

THE BAMBOO CAGE

STORM OF STEEL

HIDE AND SEEK

THE HI- JACKERS

WEAR A NAZI HELMET

CLASH OF GIANTS

NOVEMBER

509

510 (1483)

511 (1531)

512 (1484)

513 (1475)

514 (1459)

RAGS OF GLORY

ARCTIC ACE

D-DAY DROP

DEATH TRAP

PHANTOM PILOT

DESERT FOX

DECEMBER

515 (1476)

516

517 (1468)

518 (1443)

519

520

JUNGLE DUEL

THEY FLEW BY NIGHT

OPERATION CAVEMAN

BATTLE BUGGY

BUFFALO PATROL

YANKEE DROP

Vic Whittle 2005

© D. C. Thomson 1970