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Updated:22nd October 2026

RECENT ISSUES WITH RELEASE DATES
5999 CAPTAIN STARBLAZE 8th October 2026	6000 SWEET REVENGE 8th October 2026	6001 I FLEW WITH RAMSEY’S RAIDERS 8th October 2026	6002 ESCAPE FROM STALINGRAD 8th October 2026
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
At the height of World War Two, pulp hero Captain Starblaze led a super-team into battle against the darkest Axis powers. Now, as a new decade unfolds, he stands against the ever-present threat of the red menace, his trusty sidekick, Miss Miraculous, by his side. At least, that’s how fiction would have it. But the truth is stranger – and deadlier – than any supervillain could ever hope to match!	At Tarrant Rushton Airfield, 8.30 pm, Monday, 5th June, 1944, airborne troops are waiting by their gliders for the order to move. They are going to be the first Allied troops to land in France as part of Operation Overlord: D-Day.  “We’ll be all right, Jr. Stick close to me. I’ll look after you.” That’s what Sergeant Davis said to a green Sapper Regan, as orders came in to hurry to Dunkirk in May 1940. Regan would live by those words in the years he waited after vowing to return to France. Now, climbing into his glider, he is finally getting his chance for sweet revenge!	In Spring 1945, the end of the war was in sight, but the Germans were still causing havoc. In a pocket of southern Norway, a heavily-guarded Luftwaffe base is targeting the North Sea shipping channels and gunning down RAF aircraft.  Captain Jimmy Ramsey and his crack team of raiders have been charged with a new mission to do what they do best – tear the base apart. But to do it, they’ll need to team up with an ace pilot you may have heard of… Sergeant Matt Braddock!	Two armies clashed within Russia’s industrial capital in one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War. Every man was desperate to get out, but Major Heinz Falken had orders to get in – not only to get in, but to get one man out…  Commanded to rescue the son of one of the Führer’s favourite generals, Falken had no choice. He had to save the one lucky soul he was sent for or face a firing squad!
Author: Daniel McGachey	Author: James Holland & Al Murray	Author: Ferg S Handley	Author: Bill Graham
Art: Paolo Ongaro	Art: Esteve Polls	Art: Carlos Pino	Art: Manuel Benet
Cover: Graeme Neil Reeid	Cover: Keith Burns	Cover: Carlos Pino	Cover: Manuel Benet
5995 (1000) TRAITOR FROM THE SKY 24th September 2026	5996 (2000/3332) TAKE YOUR CHANCE! 24th September 2026	5997 (3000) DEADLY DEAL 24th September 2026	5998 (4000) ACES ALL! 24th September 2026
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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.	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!	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...	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…
Author: O’Connell	Author: Bernard Gregg	Author: CG Walker	Author: Ferg S. Handley
Art: Mira	Art: Blasco	Art: Vila	Art: Jose Maria Jorge
Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Jeff Bevan	Cover: Phil Gascoine	Cover: Jose Maria Jorge
5991 MURDER ON THE 38th PARALLEL 10th September 2026	5992 (1109) BAND OF HEROES 10th September 2026	5993 RULES OF ENCAGEMENT 10th September 2026	5994 (1390) THE TANK-MEN 10th September 2026
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The devious Captain Jeff Webster thinks he’s gotten away with murder — after all, what’s one more fragged body on the battlefields of North Korea? But he didn’t count on a friendly, tenacious and infuriating military policeman to hound him at every turn. Maybe it’s not as easy as he expected to get away with… Murder on the 38th Parallel.	The two parachutists made their landing safely on the soil of Occupied France. Eagerly, they waited for the welcoming words from the French Resistance. But the first they heard were pure Cockney, and from a middle‑aged Englishman in First World War uniform! That surprise was only the first of many when fighting alongside Jimmy Robinson and his tough bunch of veterans.	In 1951, still bitter from missing action in World War Two, Flight Lieutenant Eric Hewson was flying Gloster Meteor F.8 jets over West Germany when the opportunity to finally see real action with the USAF in Korea arose. That was until the offer was given to his buddy, Flight Lieutenant Nick Greene. When Greene returned to Germany, swaggering with combat stories, tensions rose between the men — but there were bigger threats in the skies than missed glory	Sergeant Fred Manning was no stranger to action, and when he was posted to command a Sherman tank in the Allied advance through Germany, he thought his previous experiences would stand him in good stead. But all his fighting had taken place in the battles which had raged across the deserts of North Africa. He would soon learn that this was to be a very different kind of war…
Author: Dominic Teqague	Author: RA Montague	Author: Steve Taylor	Author: R A Montague
Art: Giovanni Fabiano	Art: Peter Arthur Fleming	Art: Jaume Forns	Art: Gordon C Livingstone
Cover: Marco Bianchini	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: Marco Bianchini
5987 SERGEANT RAYKER: RETRIBUTION 27th August 2026	5988 (624/1747) FLASH-POINT! 27th August 2026	5989 RESISTANCE! 27th August 2026	5990 (1895/3179) FLIGHT OF NO RETURN 27th August 2026
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Sergeant Rayker is back! As the Americans advance, Rayker’s mind is on victory, but also on revenge for his friend Clancy Davis, who was murdered by the SS. As his unit moves further into Germany, the horrors of the Nazi regime are revealed, but will Rayker be able to exact his personal retribution or will Wolfgang Viessmann of the SS evade justice?	Sergeant Judd Hawke reckoned he’d seen the lot. He knew every weapon of war, and he’d handled them in battle after battle. But now he was seeing something different, something terrifying… a secret weapon that melted tanks into useless lumps of metal!	Occupied France, 1942. After her cell of French Resistance fighters is betrayed and their intel destroyed, Eleanor Moraux finds herself unsure who to trust, and on the run from a fearsome Gestapo officer. But Eleanor has memorised vital intel that could assist the British and free her homeland — she must resist capture and she must escape.	The Fairey Battle bomber was hopelessly out of date by the start of the Second World War. Yet many brave crews still flew them into action, taking on the might of the Luftwaffe — even though they knew their chances of survival were poor. Some pilots even volunteered to tackle missions that they knew were going to be one-way trips...
Author: Simon Topping	Author: Eric Hebden	Author: Robbie MacNiven	Author: R A Montague
Art: Mike Dorey	Art: Jose Aguilar	Art: Vicente Alcazar	Art: Gordon C Livingstone
Cover: Mike Dorey	Cover: Jordi Penalva	Cover: Marco Bianchini	Cover: Ian Kennedy
5983 IRON ANNIE 13th August 2026	5984 (700/1859) MUSTANG PATROL 13th August 2026	5985 A DIFFERENT KIND OF COURAGE 13th August 2026	5986 (632/1755) THE SQUADRON THAT WOULDN’T DIE 13th August 2026
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After Leutnant Kurt Stahlmann sabotages an SS scheme to smuggle plundered Soviet treasure back to Germany, he is assigned the task of flying supplies to Leningrad and clearing Russian ground defences along the way. Unbeknownst to Kurt’s crew, the vengeful SS have taken measures to ensure that his beloved Junkers Ju 52 Iron Annie’s next flight will be her last	Alan Blake was a Mustang pilot. An expert flyer in a brilliant aircraft. Give him Messerschmitts to tackle — he had no trouble with them. E-boats to shoot up — no problem there either. But then came that terrible day when the stream of bullets from his guns tore into his own squadron leader…	Burma, 1944. Assigned to a Royal Artillery base deep in the jungle, traumatised and scared Private Henry Lovelock is only able to carry on due to the reassuring protection of a squad of Gurkhas, led by the fearless Bibek. But, when the base is raided by the Japanese and Bibek is captured, Henry must find the courage to save his Nepalese friend	This is the story of the RAF unit that rose from disgrace to carve a glorious name for itself in perilous enemy skies. And, even when all its planes had been brought down, that squadron still refused to die!
Author: Dominic Teague	Author: Gordon W Brunt	Author: Ian Winterton	Author: Kenneth McOwan
Art: Jaume Forns	Art: John Ridgwayr	Art: Alberto Saichann	Art: Jose Maria Jorge
Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: Ian Kennedy
5979 CADMAN: QUARTERMASTER 30th July 2026	5980 (621/1699) TIGER IN THE TAIL 30th July 2026	5981 SNAKE-BITE 30th July 2026	5982 (1885) HEROES AND COWARDS 30th July 2026
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The Western Front, May 1916. Prince Rupert’s Horse Regiment find themselves short of food and, crucially, the private food supplies of Lieutenant Cadman — the fighting coward — have run dry too. Spurred into unusual action by his rumbling belly, Cadman leads his men on a dangerous expedition to replenish his food stores, and escape another tin of Maconochie rations.	The most dangerous job in the RAF — that’s what people said about “Tail-End Charlies”, the rear-gunners who were always the first target for enemy fighters. This story is about Charlie Stevens, a man who set out to make the job dangerous indeed — for those enemy fighters!	During the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War, US Army helicopters were in the thick of it — none more so than the AH-1 Cobra gunships, agile death-dealers deployed against the invading forces of the Viet Cong. But the conflict in Southeast Asia cost much, not just in bullets and machines, but in the lives of men and their spirits, broken by the toll of destruction...	There was no denying the fact that Lieutenant Roger Darbrook had run from his first taste of war, leaving his sergeant to do his job for him and fight a vital rearguard action. The question was, would he run again? Many people thought so, and at one time it certainly looked like they were right. Yet things aren’t always what they seem...
Author: Andrew Knighton	Author: Kenneth McOwan	Author: James Swallow	Author: Cyril G Walker
Art: Mike Dorey	Art: Amador	Art: Paolo Ongaro	Art: Ruiz
Cover: Mike Dorey & Grant Wood	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Keith Burns	Cover: Frederick Alan Philpott
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