COMMANDO RECENT ISSUES

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Latest Commando titles with original issue number in brackets where applicable.

Updated:13th August 2026

RECENT ISSUES WITH RELEASE DATES
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
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
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
5975 GHOST FLIGHT 16th July 2026	5976 (620/1725) ASSASSIN! 16th July 2026	5977 ERLKING 16th July 2026	5978 (1893) OPERATION “TERROR” 16th July 2026
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
It is the mid-1990s and across a battle-scarred Europe, the forces of WESFED (Western Federation) and the Eastern armies of the ASBLOC (Asian Bloc) are in a delicate state of truce. But the fragile peace is under constant threat and only Harrier Squadron — an international allied task force of jump-jet pilots — can prevent a flight of bandit “ghost fighters” from re-igniting the deadly conflict!	John Daniels had only one thought in his mind — revenge. Revenge against the Brigadier who had sentenced him to prison for the crime of self-defence. Now, the Brigadier was a prisoner in Germany, and John was on his way to find him. But it was no rescue attempt — John had orders to silence the Brigadier once and for all!	Germany, 1945. Following Germany’s surrender, Allied forces occupy much of the country. In pursuit of an escaped Nazi prisoner, a troop of US soldiers encounters a French-occupied village on the edge of the Black Forest, which has been experiencing a spate of missing people. The villagers blame the malevolent Erlking — a forest spirit. Only Klara Hoffman, a local clockmaker’s daughter, believes a more human threat dwells in the woods. .	When a man has seen too much fighting and come close to death, he wants only one thing — a safe job, and a bit of peace and quiet away from the shells and the bullets. So Ned Simpson reckoned his luck was in when he was sent home from Italy and posted to guard a Welsh reservoir. But how wrong can you be? For soon he was to come face-to-face with a crack German parachute unit. In Wales? Yes, that’s right...
Author: James Swallow	Author: Ken Gentry	Author: NA Breakenridge	Author: DCT Staff
Art: Esteve Polls	Art: Victor de la Fuente	Art: Esteve Polls	Art: Escandell
Cover: Keith Burns	Cover: Jordi Penalva	Cover: Marco Bianchini	Cover: Frederick Alan Philpott
5971 COMANDOS Vs DRAGONS 2nd July 2026	5972 (618/1740) BUCCANEER BOB, R.N. 2nd July 2026	5973 THE LONG BAD NIGHT 2nd July 2026	5974 (1881) CAUGHT IN THE TRAP 2nd July 2026
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
Sergeant Terry Banks and his colourful team of Commandos were known for getting the job done. But the Commandos might have bitten off more than they could chew when their next mission, to find and dispatch a Nazi Oberfuhrer obsessed with the occult, led them to the beautiful and mysterious fjords of Norway. Nobody could have guessed what lay slumbering in the mountains…	Thrashing in to attack at forty knots, guns blazing, torpedoes hissing from the tubes...that was how they fought their war in the little ships of the Royal Navy. To command one of those MTBs, you had to be brave as a lion, quick as lightning, tough as steel. And Lieutenant Bob Stacey was a guy just like that.	The Ardennes, 1944. A fog descended on the forest, and former detective Rick Brennan found himself in the thick of it. Separated from his unit, he took shelter in a farmhouse with a disparate crew of American soldiers, a captured German and a disgruntled civilian. When one of the men was murdered, Rick was convinced the German was innocent, but he’d have a long, bad night ahead of him trying to catch the real killer.	For some Burmese tribes, the only way a young lad could prove himself a man was by catching a tiger single‑handed. Even though the occupying Japanese forbade such hunts, Kam-Lee was determined to carry out the age-old ritual. But he wasn’t the only hunter, for the brutal Colonel Samato was stalking a British fighter-pilot through the jungle. Soon, someone was going to be... Caught In The Trap!
Author: Andrew Knighton	Author: R.A. (Monty) Montague	Author: Sean Mason	Author: Malcolm McDevitt
Art: Juan Ferdanez	Art: Gordon Livingstone	Art: Vicente Alcazar	Art: Ibanez
Cover: Graeme Neil Reid	Cover: Gordon Livingstone	Cover: Simon Pritchard	Cover: Ron Brown
5967 RAYKER: BACK IN THE RANKS 18th June 2026	5968 (616/1708) DIVE AFTER DARK 18th June 2026	5969 DESERT DUEL 18th June 2026	5966 (1874) THE SLEEPING TIGER 18th June 2026
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
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	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?	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.	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
Author: Simon Topping	Author: Gordon W. Brunt	Author: Andrew Knighton	Author: Mick Anglo
Art: Mike Dorey	Art: Luis Mira	Art: Carlos Piino	Art: Mick Anglo
Cover: Mike Dorey & Grant Wood	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Keith Burnsi	Cover: Frederick Alan Philpott
5963 COMMANDOS Vs COWBOYS 4th June 2026	5964 (613/1739) HERO ON HORSEBACK 4th June 2026	5965 WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? 4th June 2026	5966 (1882) THE LAST RAIDERS 4th June 2026
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High noon in the town of San Cavino. Two gunslingers. One victor. Nazi Cowboys have formed the despicable SS George Washington Legion, terrorising Allies and civilians in Northern Italy. That’s where SAS Major Hugh Hulke comes in. He knows the area and can assist Captain Andrew Ashe and his elite Commando unit in taking down the turncoats. But is Hulke out for justice — or revenge? Concept: Michael Nakan.	How do you attack a Nazi Panzer supply base guarded by huge Tiger tanks? Do you use bombs? Or rockets? Perhaps artillery? Not if you’re Captain Brad Blake you don’t. You charge with your own roughneck, bareback cavalry!	Although currently tied to a chair in a medieval church, Private David Taylor could climb like a monkey and talk the hind legs off a donkey. But, fuelled by coffee, cruelty and a desire to push back against the Normandy Invasion, Hauptmann Lange only wanted to know one thing from Taylor… What Are You Doing Here?	On foot, in a foreign land, with every police force and army unit on the alert for them, a small bunch of Italian sailors tried desperately to get over the border to the safety of Mexico. What were they doing in the USA in the first place? Well, it started when they raided a big American harbour, thousands of miles from their home, in a midget submarine!
Author: Rossa McPhillips	Author: William Spence	Author: Andrew Knighton	Author: William “Bill” Fear
Art: Marc Viure	Art: Cam Kennedy	Art: Vincente Alcazar	Art: Jamie Blasco
Cover: Marco Bianchini	Cover: Jordi Penalva	Cover: Marco Bianchini	Cover: Jeff Bevan
5959 COMMANDOS Vs ALIENS 21st May 2026	5960 (612/1715) ACE OF ACES 21st May 2026	5961 GALLERY OF SIN 21st May 2026	5962 (1862) SORCHING SAND 21st May 2026
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
You can’t blame Sergeant Fox Ryder and his Commando squad for feeling a tad frustrated when they are tasked with simulating a German invasion on a quiet coastal town in England. But Ryder and his men should have been careful what they wished for. Soon, their mundane mission takes on greater significance when they realise they are being evaluated by an otherworldly intelligence — the vanguard of a real invasion force intent upon conquering not only Britain, but the entire planet!	Andy Bellamy had the DSO, the DFC and the AFC. He had also flown just about every type of Allied aircraft — British, American, Australian and so on. He was truly an ace of aces. So how come he found himself flying a Japanese seaplane under murderous fire from a Yank destroyer?	It’s 1945, the war has ended and Jack ‘Jackdaw’ Dawson is celebrating the future with the opening of his London art gallery. But Dawson has skeletons in his wartime closet, and one has shown up on the opening night in the form of Aiden Hume. Thick as thieves on the frontline, Dawson and Hume’s friendship suffered a messy fallout. Now Hume has returned, and it’s time for Dawson to examine his past.	.. Sergeant Joe Dell had underestimated the North African desert, and it turned out to be a very dangerous place indeed, with sandstorms, murderous locals and the ever-advancing Germans. And this time, he’d gotten in too deep, and the desert thirsted for revenge. This time, he was as good as dead...
Author: Dominic Teague	Author: Gordon W Brunt	Author: Dominic Teague	Author: Cyril G Walker
Art: Alejandro Garcia Mangana	Art: D Sanchez	Art: Alberto Saichann	Art: Peter Arthur Fleming
Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: Ian Knnedy	Cover: Simon Pritchard	Cover: Frederick Alan Philpott
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