COMMANDO 1981

(POCKET HOMEPAGE)

All the Commando titles for 1981  (1475 – 1570)

 

The price of Commando increased to 16p in October.

 

The year saw the first (Baraldi) cover with 1519 ‘U-Boat Menace’.

Baraldi did a total of nine covers for Commando, but no interior artwork.

His last cover was in 1988

 

Regular cover artists this year were:

Baraldi, Ron Brown, Cortiella, Cox, Jacono, Ian Kennedy, Longaron, Miller, John Ridgway, Sanfeliz, Scholler, K.C.G. Walker.

 

Reprint cover artists:

Fernando, Ian Kennedy, Gordon Livingstone, Longaron, Jordi Penalva.

 

Favourite covers:

1522 ‘Die like a Hero’ (Baraldi) & 1567 ‘Vulkan Group’ (Longaron).

 

The first two issues each month are reprints the original/new issue numbers are in brackets.

JANUARY

1475 (513)

1476 (515)

1477

1478 (2819)

1479

1480

1481

1482

PHANTOM PILOT

JUNGLE DUEL

COWARD’S BATTLE

TARGET – CRETE!

INTRUDER SQUAD

BEST OF ENEMIES

KALI’S WARRIORS

ACT OF COURAGE

FEBRUARY

1483 (510)

1484 (512)

1485

1486

1487 (2691)

1488

1489

1490 (2836)

ARCTIC ACE

DEATH TRAP

THE FAKE GENERAL

SAY NOTHING!

A RACE AGAINST TIME

BLOOD RED ROCK

CROOKS IN KHAKI

ADVANCE!

MARCH

1491 (521)

1492 (524)

1493 (2835)

1494

1495

1496

1497

1498

FRAMED!

THE NIGHT THE TOW ROPE BROKE

ENTRY FORBIDDEN!

DEADLY DECOY

OUT OF THE FUTURE

THE UNKNOWN ENEMY

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING

WAY OF HONOUR

APRIL

1499 (535)

1500 (494)

1501 (2699)

1502 (2822)

1503 (2858)

1504

1505

1506

BRIGHT BLADE OF COURAGE

TRAIL BLAZERS

DESERT ORDEAL

ALWAYS A PRISONER

THE BRIDGE MUST FALL

TREASON!

THE FACE OF COURAGE

SHOOT-OUT

MAY

1507 (522)

1508 (532)

1509

1510 (2859)

1511

1512

1513

1514 (2867)

BIG MIKE

THE KILLING SKULL

DEADLY SECRET

SINK THAT SHIP!

MAN OF MYSTERY

ESCAPE FROM BURMA

SNOW WOLVES

HIDDEN DANGER

JUNE

1515 (538)

1516 (533)

1517

1518 (2850)

1519

1520 (2708)

1521

1522

LOW-LEVEL LIZZIE

CANNONBALL CASEY

RESCUE!

IN DISGUISE!

U-BOAT MENACE

INTRUDERS BEWARE!

THE RECKONING

DIE LIKE A HERO

JULY

1523 (529)

1524 (528)

1525 (2860)

1526

1527 (2883)

1528

1529

1530 (2875)

THE DEADLY ONE

SUICIDE STRIKE

THE ROAR OF THE GUNS

A SERGEANT’S WAR

SECRET CARGO

LUCKY LARRIGAN

NO WAY OUT

FATHER AND SON

AUGUST

1531 (511)

1532 (531)

1533

1534 (2884)

1535 (2795)

1536

1537

1538

D-DAY DROP

TANK BUSTER ACE

DEATH BEFORE DISHONOUR

DOUBLE EXPOSURE

THE HOLLOW ISLAND

DEFEND TO THE LAST

TRAITOR PLANES

DEVIL FISH

SEPTEMBER

1539 (560)

1540 (536)

1541

1542

1543

1544

1545

1546

SEA STRIKE

SKY PIRATE

TAKE ANY RISK!

FIND THE TREASURE

TIME UP FOR TRAITORS

ON TARGET!

DEMOLITION SQUAD

FORWARD THE TIGERS

OCTOBER

1547 (548)

1548 (542)

1549

1550

1551

1552

1553

1554

VALLEY OF FLAME

FIND A TRAITOR

INTO THE ATTACK

THE MAN WHO KILLED THE GENERAL

THE SHARP-SHOOTERS

BEHIND ENEMY LINES

HOLD THE BRIDGE!

TEMPEST SQUADRON

NOVEMBER

1555 (545)

1556 (562)

1557

1558 (2892)

1559

1560

1561

1562

DIARY OF A HERO

THE DEATH OR GLORY MOB

NOWHERE TO HIDE

TRIGGER TRAP

SQUADRON OF DOOM

CASTLE IN THE JUNGLE

THE DESERT OF NO RETURN

HUNT THEM DOWN!

DECEMBER

1563 (534)

1564 (544)

1565 (2715)

1566

1567

1568

1569

1570

THE SPY THAT NEVER WAS

TIME OF TERROR

THE LINE-SHOOTER

FIGHTING FOOL!

VULKAN GROUP

BUTTERFIELD’S BATTLE

THE SECRET HEROES

THE TREASURE OF DEVIL ISLAND

Vic Whittle 2010

© D. C. Thomson 1981