COMMANDO RECENT ISSUES

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

Updated: 5th June 2025

RECENT ISSUES WITH RELEASE DATES
5855 GLORY-HOUND 22nd May 2025	5856 (531/1532) TANK BUSTER ACE 22nd May 2025	5857 SERGEANT RAYKER: WASTED 22nd May 2025	5858 (1457/2779) CROSSED SWORDS 22nd May 2025
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
Algeria, 1942. American soldiers storm the beaches of North Africa as part of Operation Torch. Sergeant John Rock of Dog Company takes his responsibility for his men seriously and isn’t about to sacrifice any lives for a chance at glory. The same can’t be said for their new commanding officer, Lieutenant Hank Travers. The glory hound lieutenant soon puts the platoon in jeopardy, and Rock isn’t sure who’s the bigger threat – the Vichy or Travers!	You’ve heard of the Hurricane IID, the mighty fighter that packed a killer punch. Its job was smashing the Afrika Korps tanks with its two huge cannons. Now, meet the men who flew these planes into action — especially Wing Commander Theodore Trigg, an ace among aces, and leader of the RAF’s toughest bunch of pilots.	Italy, 1944. Drinking on duty and absence without leave are both punishable offences under the articles of war. One fateful evening though, that’s precisely what four US marines decided to do. Sergeant Moses Rayker of the 307th Military Police Company has been assigned the apparently easy task of rounding the vagabonds up. But it’s not long before Rayker finds himself under enemy fire with the drunken marines in tow. Perhaps this job isn’t as simple as it sounds!	Many centuries ago, two soldiers, both trained killers, fought to the death in the scorching heat of the North African desert. Their weapons – the short, stabbing swords of the Roman legionary. Hundreds of years later, the same burning sands were to witness another duel. For two pilots, one British and one German, history was about to repeat itself…
Author: Brent Towns	Author: Kenneth McOwan	Author: Dominic Teague	Author: Cyril G Walker
Art: Esteve Polls	Art: D S Gomez	Art: Mike Dorey	Art: Ruiz
Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Mike Dorey	Cover: Ian Kennedy
5851 WAR-TORN! 8th May 2025	5852 (1845/3083) THE LAST DAYS OF THE WAR 8th May 2025	5853 FOR YOU THE WAR IS OVER 8th May 2025	5854 (2857/4303) STEER FOR ACTION 8th May 2025
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
In 1939, war was declared, sparking six years of devastation known as World War Two. Two brothers, Michel and Hans Weber were torn apart by the conflict — separated and on opposite sides of the fighting, with one in Germany and the other in Canada. They had started the war as brothers — would they end it as enemies, or could their bond survive?	A Wehrmacht captain, a German scientist and an RAF pilot. This unlikely combination was thrown together in the crumbling ruins of a defeated Germany by a common aim — survival. If they could get to Allied territory, they’d be safe. But with vengeful SS men hot on their heels, their chances were very slim.	Germany, 1945. The end of the war is near. Commando Sergeant Alfred Millin and his comrades are forced to battle their way through what remains of the bitter German forces. Millin worries what awaits him when the fighting is over — will he be pulled back into his criminal past?	From the first day of war in 1939, the soldiers, sailors and airmen of the countries opposed to Hitler’s Germany knew that it would be a long, bloody struggle before the Nazis were toppled to defeat. They couldn’t know then that the day of victory would come in May 1945, and for those six years of savage war, Clive Sterling, Royal Navy, would sail hostile seas and face deadly danger almost every day in that fight for freedom.
Author: Ferg Handley	Author: Cyril G. Walker	Author: Andrew Knighton	Author: Ian Clark
Art: Jaume Forns	Art: Josep Nebot	Art: Mike Donaldson	Art: Gordon Livingstone
Cover: Keith Burns	Cover: Jeff Bevan	Cover: Mike Donaldson	Cover: Ian Kennedy
5847 HMAS WOMBAT: THE DUEL 24th April 2025	5848 (569/1595) BATTLE SQUADRON 24th April 2025	5849 B-TEAM 24th April 2025	5850 (1625) CRIME IN THE SANDS 24th April 2025
THE HOME OF HEROES	THE GOLD COLLECTION	FOR ACTION AND ADVENTURE	THE SILVER COLLECTION
The time has come for the crew of HMAS Wombat to strike out on their own adventure! With a Japanese destroyer helmed by Captain Aki Kato causing havoc in the shipping lanes, it falls to Captain John Griffin and his rough and ready crew to save the day once again! But with Kato able to predict all of Griffin’s tricks, the battle for the Pacific soon turns into a duel to end all duels!	Before the war, Mike Stallard had fought as a pilot in China, Spain and South America. He hired out his skills to the highest bidder and always ended up where the dogfights were the fiercest. Then he went to France with the RAF, fighting strictly to order in clumsy Fairey Battles against sleek, deadly Me109s. And unless the top brass listened to fighting men like Mike and let them fight in their own way, this was going to be the last war that Mike and his mates would ever fly in.	Palestine, 1917. Sergeant Blake Burnstock and the rest of his section in the Australian Light Horses are always being made to feel second best – the B-team, their comrades call them. But when their rival unit, the A-team, are captured by the Turks, Burnstock and his boys consider it their duty to get them back. Unfortunately, their commanding officers don’t see it that way. Well, second best or not, they’re going to rescue their countrymen. Against orders and against the odds, the B-team are riding out!	Life in the small supply depot in North Africa was quiet for Nick Hart. He was miles away from the war and nothing exciting ever happened. But that wasn’t going to last for long. Pretty soon he’d find himself behind enemy lines, playing a deadly cat-and-mouse game with the Germans — and the only men he could turn to for help were four hardened criminals
Author: Brent Towns	Author: Gordon W. Brunt	Author: Dominic Teague	Author: Roger Sanderson
Art: Esteve Polls	Art: Jose Maria Jorge	Art: Juan Fernandez	Art: Carlos Cruz
Cover: Keith Burns	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Neil Roberts	Cover: Jeff Bevan
5843 A DAME TO DIE FOR 10th April 2025	5844 (565/1579) ZERO SMASHER 10th April 2025	5845 SMOKEJUMPERS! 10th April 2025	5846 (1703) BOUND BY DUTY 10th April 2025
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December 7th, 1941. Rick Brennan was a private eye before the war, but there wasn’t much call for detective work in the Ardennes, just cold nights and bad sleep. When he got himself three days leave in Paris, he thought he had it made – finally, some rest. But fate had other plans. After running into his old friend, Larry Carmichael, he found himself pulled into the kind of racket he thought he’d left behind in LA. It all started when Carmichael introduced him to his new girlfriend – she really was a dame to die for…	One mistake by Squadron Leader Vic Harper caused the loss of four valuable Liberator bombers and also cost Vic the command of his squadron. He was posted to a forgotten base to sit out the war where he could do no more damage. But that didn’t suit Vic. He decided to wipe out his mistake by downing any and every Japanese plane that came his way. No wonder they began to call him...Zero Smasher!	Lieutenant Alvin Siskel of the 99th Pursuit Squadron was one of the best flyers amongst the famous Tuskegee Airmen. But after accidentally crossing the bullying Captain Jack Calhoun, he’s stripped of his rank and forced into service as a ‘smokejumper’ — paratrooper firemen fighting forest fires on American soil. But things start to heat up for the smokejumpers when Japanese Fu-Go explosive balloons begin drifting across the Pacific, causing more forest fires than ever before. All in a day’s work for Siskel – but that’s not all the Japanese have planned!	Military policemen have a job to do. Sometimes they don’t enjoy it, but they are duty bound to get it done. But what happens when an MP has a prisoner who saves his life and also convinces the policeman of his innocence? More than that – what if the prisoner turns out to be a hero?
Author: Sean Mason	Author: Staff	Author: Steve Taylor	Author: Parker
Art: Alberto Saichann	Art: Mira	Art: Vicente Alcazar	Art: Cecil Thomas Rigby
Cover: Simon Pritchard	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Marco Bianchini	Cover: Jeff Bevan
5839 NO SURRENDER! 27th March 2025	5840 (584/1644) THE SANDS OF FEAR 27th March 2025	5841 SIX OF THE BEST 27th March 2025	5842 (1703) SOMEONE MUST LEAD 27th March 2025
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Egypt 1942. The war in the desert was as hot as the blazing sun, with the Italians fighting the British in an all-out battle for supremacy. The Long Range Desert Patrol was an ace in the hand of the Brits, and their raiding parties went behind enemy lines to cut off vital supplies to their Italian opponents. Little did they know they would soon be fighting shoulder to shoulder for survival against a common enemy – the German Afrika Korps!	Lieutenant Bill Johnston had real trouble on his hands – in the shape of a know-it-all Yank out on patrol with Bill’s tough, desert-wise LRDG men, who just didn’t take to big heads. And the American, Lieutenant Schnabel, thought he knew the lot. So, as well as the desert and the Nazis, Bill had to tame Schnabel too. It looked like being some patrol…	Britain’s finest spy, Lord Peter Flint, in another top-hole adventure! After Warlord’s most disastrous mission yet, Flint ends up as the number one target of ‘six of the best’ assassins the world has ever seen! But why does the phrase ‘six of the best’ seem familiar to him? Who is the mysterious sixth assassin who is an ‘old friend’ of Flint’s? Will these questions be answered – or will this be the end of Codename Warlord?!	Cut off from their unit by the Japanese and in company with a leaderless group of Gurkhas, two British soldiers decide which of them would take command. Should it be Private Herbie Green, a seasoned veteran and the company scout, or Private Bob Chandler, a newcomer to the jungle? The choice seemed obvious, but there was more to the situation than met the eye.
Author: Rossa McPhillips	Author: Roy Bullen	Author: Dominic Teague	Author: R.A. Montague
Art: Kevin Hopgood	Art: Luis Collado Coch	Art: Carlos Pino	Art: Felix Carrion
Cover: Keith Burns	Cover: Ian Kennedy	Cover: Carlos Pino	Cover: Ian Kennedy
5835 LEAGUES APART 13th March 2025	5836 (561/1556) THE DEATH OR GLORY MOB 13th March 2025	5837 LOOTERS! 13th March 2025	5838 (1751) THE END OF THE LINE 13th March 2025
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Footballers Jimmy Harris and Danny Meggs hated each other’s guts. They were bitter rivals on and off the pitch, but things all came to a head at the qualifying match for promotion to the next division. With talent scouts watching, Danny performed a devastating tackle on Jimmy which landed with a sickening crunch. The injury caused Jimmy to be out of the beautiful game… but with World War Two looming, he wouldn’t be out of action for long!	There had always been a Wild in the Wessex Rifles — always an officer from this family who proved to be as courageous as his ancestors and earned for himself the glorious name... “The Wild One”. Major Jason Wild was the man who carried on the tradition in the Second World War, and he was as tough as any of the others. And then, for the first time in history, there appeared a Wessex officer even braver than The Wild One. This is his amazing story...	France, 1915. As trench warfare rages on between British and German forces, the stretcher-bearers are busier than ever. But while the casualties continue to pile up, fallen soldiers’ valuables have started to go walkabout – there are looters on the line! Enter Corporal Philip Baker, assigned by the top brass to go undercover and track down those responsible. But he soon finds out the trouble runs deeper than he could have ever imagined!	Who was really responsible for the terrible train crash in the Boivert tunnel? Was it Marcel Lebrun, or was it the man who actually went to jail for the crime? Some years later, in the French Resistance, Marcel lay waiting for an enemy arms train speeding towards Boivert. But a lonely figure clutching a rifle lay patiently in wait for him.
Author: Jim and David Turner	Author: David Motton	Author: Colin Maxwell	Author: Cyril G. Walker
Art: Paolo Ongaro	Art: Franch	Art: Alejandro Garcia Mangana	Art: Ibáñez
Cover: Simon Pritchard	Cover: Jordi Bosch Penalva	Cover: Alejandro Garcia Mangana	Cover: Jeff Bevan
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