Jose Maria Jorge Titles

JOSE MARIA JORGE

COMMANDO TITLES

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Jose Maria Jorge

Story Artist

for

Commando Comics

1969 -

Updated: September 9th 2006

Story artist for Commando comics since 1969, his first title being No: 384 'Flying Fury' February 1969.

Looking through his titles, it is apparent that Jose loves aircraft themes.

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Jose was also created covers for some of his work as illustrated below.

2663

HUNGER FOR GLORY

August 1990

Jose’s first cover

2713

FLYING MUSKETEERS

October 1990

2753

AIR PIRATES

November 1990

2817

VALLEY OF DEATH

March 1991

Colonel John Devlin, U.S.A.A.F., had chased glory in three wars but it had always passed him by. Now, in the savage air battles over war-torn Vietnam, he saw his final chance when a new pilot arrived, a real hotshot, a born ace.

There and then Devlin decided that his top gun was going to be his ticket to glory … regardless of the cost in men and machines!

Like the famous musketeers of old, the four young Second World War German pilots, fresh from training, believed in the motto, "All for One and One for All!"

It stood them in good stead on their early combat patrols, while their Focke Wulf Fw 190s were still the scourge of the skies. But they were to need their light-hearted comradeship even more in the dark days that lay ahead for the German Luftwaffe.

Officially they were called Forward Air Controllers, but air pirates was nearer the mark. What else would you call pilots who sneaked about over the Vietnamese jungle tops, ambushing the enemy from the air then withdrawing before he had time to retaliate?

Roy Armour was one of these men. He flew with a secret unit based in Laos. There, the dangers he faced got even worse when he landed!

Transferred from the army to the air force in the very early days of war in the air, Austrian Karl Littman began to wonder if his fighting days were over - all he seemed to do was fly boring patrols. His observer did all the shooting and that was from a very safe distance.

So Karl decided to liven things up and really make the sparks fly. Unfortunately he was a bit too successful and it began to look as though he was the one who'd get his wings clipped - permanently.

2917

THE KESTRELS

April 1991

2986

FORCED TO FLY

June 1991

3039

THE FLYING FLETCHERS

October 1991

3110

KILLER COBRA

November 1991

It's said that the helicopter came of age as a weapon during the Vietnam War. Hauptmann Karl Emberg of the Luftwaffe's Kestrel Staffel might dispute that, though. For, in the dying days of Germany's Third Reich, he and his command of rotorcraft hammered British ground forces and ran rings around Allied fighter aircraft - despite the odds.

And those fierce battles were child's play compared to the fight to destroy another fleet of helicopters intended as the ultimate Kamikaze force …

The Japs were advancing closer by the second, notching up victory after victory. And the lives of a few stranded R.A.F. lads were in the hands of one of their own - a bloke who felt he didn't have the nerve to sit in the cockpit of an aircraft ever again.

With time running out fast and the situation growing more desperate by the second, somehow the others had to convince their reluctant pilot that he still had the courage and confidence to take to the air again!

Frank Fletcher was the First Officer on a B.O.A.C. "Empire" class flying boat when the Second World War broke out. He thought that it would be his Spitfire-flying brother who would see all the action that would come the family's way.

He couldn't have been more wrong - and his lumbering unarmed airliner would prove a prickly problem for the Luftwaffe.

"To slow," said the Mustang pilots. "Like a carthorse," grinned the Spitfire boys. "Excellent! Give us more!" enthused the Soviet ground-attack aces.

All were talking about the same aircraft - the Bell P-39 Airacobra. And this is the story of some of the men who flew Killer Cobras into battle - in the savage skies to the east of Europe where no quarter was asked or given …

3158

OPERATION "BALTIC"

March 1992

3177

FATAL CONTACT

April 1992

3223

SERPENT ISLAND

June 1992

3296

OPERATION "SHOOTING STAR"

September 1992

The Baltic Sea, lying between Germany, Scandinavia and Russia, was considered by the Germans to be pretty safe for their shipping during the First World war. After all, there was only a narrow, tricky and well-guarded entrance to it. But they reckoned without the captain of a British submarine who knew the northern seaways like the back of his hand. He planned to get in there, cause as much havoc as possible - and settle with a particularly nasty German commander along the way.

Operation "Baltic" would be a dangerous business, all right…

From the first day it arrived in Korean skies, the F-86 Sabre was the boss of the air war over that country. Only the Russian MiG-15 could come close but it was still outclassed.

Then, without warning, entire formations of Sabres began to disappear without trace. It was clear that they were being lost in combat - but what sort of enemy weapon had the power to cause such a fatal contact?

It was a small island in the seas off China, nothing special at all. Except that it was part of the myth of a hugh green serpent which arose from the depths to protect the mainland from invaders.

In 1942, such stories were dismissed as hocus-pocus, yet the crews of four fighting craft from Britain, China and Japan were drawn to the place in a way no-one could really understand. Perhaps there was something special about Serpent Island after all…

Flying straight and level over hostile territory sounds like suicide. But that's what photo-reconnaissance crewman like Captain Mike Sedowski of the U.S. Army Air Force did, day or night.

Mike could handle all the enemy flak and fighters. They didn't worry him at all. But now, on the most important operation of his life, he had a new crewman who he wasn't sure he could rely on in a tight spot - and that really did worry him.

3329

BATTLE MOUNTAIN

April 1993

3351

DAVID VERSUS GOLIATH

June 1995

3423

BADGES OF THE BRAVE

July 1997

3813

ACE IN THE DARK

May 2005

Jose’s latest cover

It was known as Battle Mountain because there had been a battle royal on its slopes somewhere back in the mists of time.

Now it was 1942 and the advance of German forces into Russia would once again bring battle to the mountain. This time, though, it would be different - this time the fighting would be under the mountain as well!

A six-engined jet bomber, bristling with guns, and with a top speed approaching the sound barrier … against a wooden glider with only a pair of 30mm cannon. Sounds like no contest doesn't it?

Not to Hauptmann Kaspar Theiss, it didn't. When he turned his little glider after the big bomber, he was determined he could bring it down … and settle an old score.

Despite his father being awarded medals for gallantry, Hud Brown just scoffed and called them "Tin Badges".

But he and his brother Jake found out such medals were fitting badges of the brave, whether won over battlefields of Flanders or in the war-torn skies over China.

He had taken to the air as a fighter pilot in a Supermarine Spitfire, one of the finest combat aircraft ever, and he proved to be a natural pilot with a rising tally of kills to his name. But one day Danny Crabbe fell victim to enemy fire, and his injuries meant he was not considered fit to fly fighters again.

Stuck behind a desk, he did all in his power to get back to any kind of flying and his chance finally came. This time he was in the cockpit of a Westland Lysander, stooging low and slow over occupied Europe to deliver agents and supplies to resistance groups. “Boring!”, thought Danny…but not for very long!

Following is a list of covers attributed to Jose Maria Jorge.

Original titles are in blue.

Reprinted titles are in yellow.

(CA) Denotes that Jose also did the cover.

384 FLYING FURY	2492 EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL
411 DESERT DOG-FIGHT	2500 FAMILY OF HEROES
440 HERO IN A HURRI	2511 DRAGON PILOT
456 BLACK ZERO	2532 SKY GIANT
489 ACES WILD	2536 ZIG-ZAG - OR DIE
510 ARTIC ACE	2551 STARR'S WAR
528 SUICIDE STRIKE	2564 ACTION AT ZERO FEET
569 BATTLE SQUADRON	2574 GIANT DUEL
597 SKY OF FLAME	2596 WINGED WOLVES
632 THE SQUADRON THAT WOULDN'T DIE	2598 LET ME FLY!
657 THE SHIP BUSTERS	2610 TOO LATE FOR GLORY
693 DEATH OF THE COBRA	2622 SQUADRON - SCRAMBLE
724 ABANDON SHIP!	2644 FIRE!
764 FEAR FLIES HIGH	2645 SQUADRON PRIDE
784 FIRE OVER ENGLAND	2663 HUNGER FOR GLORY (CA)
817 CARRIER STRIKE	2674 TOP SECRET SQUADRON
850 DANGER IN THE DEEP	2676 THE MAN WITH NO SHADOW
880 ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE	2691 A RACE AGAINST TIME
897 THE BLACK BUZZARD	2694 PILOT FOR HIRE (CA)
922 A QUESTION OF HONOUR	2708 INTRUDERS BEWARE
954 FIGHTING CAT	2713 FLYING MUSKETEERS (CA)
985 FLYING WILD	2734 THE WAITING GAME
1010 IDENTITY UNKNOWN	2753 AIR PIRATES (CA)
1061 SINK THAT SUB!	2766 CLOSE SUPPORT
1089 JAVA SEA JINX	2802 FULL CIRCLE (CA)
1107 FLYING FURY	2804 SHOOT HIM DOWN
1117 THE FLYING BLOWLAMP	2817 VALLEY OF DEATH (CA)
1142 BET YOUR LIFE…	2842 CARRIER PILOT
1168 THUNDERBOLT!	2855 WINGS OF WAR
1194 EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL	2881 FEARLESS FOSTER
1199 DESERT DOGFIGHT	2890 CHINESE SQUADRON (CA)
1216 FAMILY OF HEROES	2891 MAN OVERBOARD
1250 SKY GIANT	2917 THE KESTRELS (CA)
1259 HERO IN A HURRI	2943 THE FIGHTING FOXES (CA)
1280 PAID IN FULL	2961 CODENAME "ADOLF" (CA)
1299 BLACK ZERO	2986 FORCED TO FLY (CA)
1306 ACTION AT ZERO FEET	2996 ALL GUNS FIRING
1332 WINGED WOLVES	3017 JUNGLE FORTRESS (CA)
1358 WHO KILLED COOPER?	3028 NEVER SAY DIE
1376 THE SURVIVOR	3039 THE FLYING FLETCHERS (CA)
1399 HIGH FLYING SPY	3049 EAST TO DANGER (CA)
1416 SEEK OUT THE ENEMY	3068 COMRADES AT WAR
1434 FIRE!	3089 GUNN FIGHTER (CA)
1436 ACES WILD	3110 KILLER COBRA (CA)
1449 FLYING LIFEBOAT	3135 WINGS OVER AFRICA (CA)
1466 THE MAN WITH NO SHADOW	3148 THE SAVAGE SEA
1483 ARCTIC ACE	3158 OPERATION "BALTIC" (CA)
1487 A RACE AGAINST TIME	3177 FATAL CONTACT (CA)
1504 TREASON!	3202 EYES OF THE GUNS (CA)
1520 INTRUDERS BEWARE!	3203 THE FIGHTING SPIRIT
1524 SUICIDE STRIKE	3212 FLOATING BOMB
1537 TRAITOR PLANES	3223 SERPENT ISLAND (CA)
1554 TEMPEST SQUADRON	3235 THE CONVOY FIGHTS BACK
1577 MAN OVERBOARD!	3246 FLYING FOX (CA)
1594 THE FLYING AVENGERS	3265 BOGUS BOMBER (CA)
1595 BATTLE SQUADRON	3268 THE PIRATES
1609 THE JETS FROM NOWHERE	3296 OPERATION "SHOOTING STAR" (CA)
1640 SHOOT HIM DOWN!	3308 BEWARE THE PROWLERS
1668 SKY OF FLAME	3329 BATTLE MOUNTAIN (CA)
1755 THE SQUADRON THAT WOULDN’T DIE	3351 DAVID VERSUS GOLIATH (CA)
1757 WHO NEEDS LUCK?	3373 PANZER HUNTER (CA)
1778 ALL GUNS FIRING	3393 ONE MORE BATTLE (CA)
1798 NEVER SAY DIE!	3423 BADGES OF THE BRAVE (CA)
1803 THE SHIP BUSTERS	3441 STORM BIRDS (CA)
1817 COMRADES AT WAR	3452 CAPTURE THAT SHIP!
1853 DEADLY MARAUDERS	3469 TERROR OF THE TANKS (CA)
1878 THE SAVAGE SEA	3476 PILOT ERROR
1880 DEATH OF A COBRA	3498 KEEP 'EM FLYING (CA)
1899 ABANDON SHIP	3517 THE HAUNTED HURRICANE (CA)
1903 THE FIGHTING SPIRIT	3538 ROGUE ACE (CA)
1922 FLOATING BOMB	3561 STOP, THIEF! (CA)
1946 THE CONVOY FIGHTS BACK	3584 MYSTERY SQUADRON (CA)
1970 THE PIRATES	3588 THE LONG NIGHT
1986 BEWARE THE PROWLERS	3606 FIGHTER ACES (CA)
2019 FIRE OVER ENGLAND	3625 GULLS WITH GUNS (CA)
2024 TARGET MALTA	3627 DANGER – KEEP CLEAR!
2056 CAPTURE THAT SHIP	3635 SECRET OF THE SEA
2074 PILOT ERROR	3641 TARGET IN SIGHT! (CA)
2076 CARRIER STRIKE	3670 ARROW ACE
2090 SAVED FROM THE SEA	3683 WHO’S THE BEST?
2111 HIT 'EM HARD	3695 DOOMED BREED
2136 THE LONG NIGHT	3712 FLIGHT TO FREEDOM
2154 SECRET OF THE SEA	3745 BRONCO ACE
2183 DANGER - KEEP CLEAR	3747 OWL PATROL
2187 THE BLACK BUZZARD	3768 THE FIRST ACES (CA)
2197 WHO'S THE BEST?	3787 JET PILOT
2204 A QUESTION OF HONOUR	3791 WAR ON THE WAVES (CA)
2222 FIRST COMMAND	3813 ACE IN THE DARK (CA)
2242 OWL PATROL	3838 TERROR IN THE TRENCHES (CA)
2263 JET PILOT	3843 ACE VERSUS ACE
2282 ACE VERSUS ACE	3856 FLYING TIGER (CA)
2306 THE INVISIBLE WARRIOR	3868 THE INVISIBLE WARRIOR
2331 FLYING WILD	3886 THE INVISIBLE ENEMY (CA)
2342 KNOW YOUR ENEMY	3909 HIGH SPEED ACE (CA)
2360 SOUND OF DEATH	3916 KNOW YOUR ENEMY