José Maria Jorge

COMMANDO TITLES

(POCKET HOMEPAGE)

José Maria Jorge Story Artist for Commando Comics 1969 - 2010

Updated: October 16th 2011

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 José loved aircraft themes.

Sadly José died October 2010 aged 69.

Vic

José also created covers for some of his work as illustrated below.
2663 HUNGER FOR GLORY August 1990 José’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
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!
José did the interior artwork for the titles listed below. Original titles are in blue. Reprinted titles are in yellow. (CA) Denotes that José also did the cover art.
384 FLYING FURY		2674 TOP SECRET SQUADRON
411 DESERT DOG-FIGHT		2676 THE MAN WITH NO SHADOW
440 HERO IN A HURRI		2691 A RACE AGAINST TIME
456 BLACK ZERO		2694 PILOT FOR HIRE (CA)
489 ACES WILD		2708 INTRUDERS BEWARE
510 ARTIC ACE		2713 FLYING MUSKETEERS (CA)
528 SUICIDE STRIKE		2734 THE WAITING GAME
569 BATTLE SQUADRON		2753 AIR PIRATES (CA)
597 SKY OF FLAME		2766 CLOSE SUPPORT
632 THE SQUADRON THAT WOULDN'T DIE		2802 FULL CIRCLE (CA)
657 THE SHIP BUSTERS		2804 SHOOT HIM DOWN
693 DEATH OF THE COBRA		2817 VALLEY OF DEATH (CA)
724 ABANDON SHIP!		2842 CARRIER PILOT
764 FEAR FLIES HIGH		2855 WINGS OF WAR
784 FIRE OVER ENGLAND		2881 FEARLESS FOSTER
817 CARRIER STRIKE		2890 CHINESE SQUADRON (CA)
850 DANGER IN THE DEEP		2891 MAN OVERBOARD
880 ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE		2917 THE KESTRELS (CA)
897 THE BLACK BUZZARD		2943 THE FIGHTING FOXES (CA)
922 A QUESTION OF HONOUR		2961 CODENAME "ADOLF" (CA)
954 FIGHTING CAT		2986 FORCED TO FLY (CA)
985 FLYING WILD		2996 ALL GUNS FIRING
1010 IDENTITY UNKNOWN		3017 JUNGLE FORTRESS (CA)
1061 SINK THAT SUB!		3028 NEVER SAY DIE
1089 JAVA SEA JINX		3039 THE FLYING FLETCHERS (CA)
1107 FLYING FURY		3049 EAST TO DANGER (CA)
1117 THE FLYING BLOWLAMP		3068 COMRADES AT WAR
1142 BET YOUR LIFE…		3089 GUNN FIGHTER (CA)
1168 THUNDERBOLT!		3110 KILLER COBRA (CA)
1194 EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL		3135 WINGS OVER AFRICA (CA)
1199 DESERT DOGFIGHT		3148 THE SAVAGE SEA
1216 FAMILY OF HEROES		3158 OPERATION "BALTIC" (CA)
1250 SKY GIANT		3177 FATAL CONTACT (CA)
1259 HERO IN A HURRI		3202 EYES OF THE GUNS (CA)
1280 PAID IN FULL		3203 THE FIGHTING SPIRIT
1299 BLACK ZERO		3212 FLOATING BOMB
1306 ACTION AT ZERO FEET		3223 SERPENT ISLAND (CA)
1332 WINGED WOLVES		3235 THE CONVOY FIGHTS BACK
1358 WHO KILLED COOPER?		3246 FLYING FOX (CA)
1376 THE SURVIVOR		3265 BOGUS BOMBER (CA)
1399 HIGH FLYING SPY		3268 THE PIRATES
1416 SEEK OUT THE ENEMY		3296 OPERATION "SHOOTING STAR" (CA)
1434 FIRE!		3308 BEWARE THE PROWLERS
1436 ACES WILD		3329 BATTLE MOUNTAIN (CA)
1449 FLYING LIFEBOAT		3351 DAVID VERSUS GOLIATH (CA)
1466 THE MAN WITH NO SHADOW		3373 PANZER HUNTER (CA)
1483 ARCTIC ACE		3393 ONE MORE BATTLE (CA)
1487 A RACE AGAINST TIME		3423 BADGES OF THE BRAVE (CA)
1504 TREASON!		3441 STORM BIRDS (CA)
1520 INTRUDERS BEWARE!		3452 CAPTURE THAT SHIP!
1524 SUICIDE STRIKE		3469 TERROR OF THE TANKS (CA)
1537 TRAITOR PLANES		3476 PILOT ERROR
1554 TEMPEST SQUADRON		3498 KEEP 'EM FLYING (CA)
1577 MAN OVERBOARD!		3517 THE HAUNTED HURRICANE (CA)
1594 THE FLYING AVENGERS		3538 ROGUE ACE (CA)
1595 BATTLE SQUADRON		3561 STOP, THIEF! (CA)
1609 THE JETS FROM NOWHERE		3584 MYSTERY SQUADRON (CA)
1640 SHOOT HIM DOWN!		3588 THE LONG NIGHT
1668 SKY OF FLAME		3606 FIGHTER ACES (CA)
1755 THE SQUADRON THAT WOULDN’T DIE		3625 GULLS WITH GUNS (CA)
1757 WHO NEEDS LUCK?		3627 DANGER – KEEP CLEAR!
1778 ALL GUNS FIRING		3635 SECRET OF THE SEA
1798 NEVER SAY DIE!		3641 TARGET IN SIGHT! (CA)
1803 THE SHIP BUSTERS		3670 ARROW ACE
1817 COMRADES AT WAR		3683 WHO’S THE BEST?
1853 DEADLY MARAUDERS		3695 DOOMED BREED
1878 THE SAVAGE SEA		3712 FLIGHT TO FREEDOM
1880 DEATH OF A COBRA		3745 BRONCO ACE
1899 ABANDON SHIP		3747 OWL PATROL
1903 THE FIGHTING SPIRIT		3768 THE FIRST ACES (CA)
1922 FLOATING BOMB		3787 JET PILOT
1946 THE CONVOY FIGHTS BACK		3791 WAR ON THE WAVES (CA)
1970 THE PIRATES		3813 ACE IN THE DARK (CA)
1986 BEWARE THE PROWLERS		3838 TERROR IN THE TRENCHES (CA)
2019 FIRE OVER ENGLAND		3843 ACE VERSUS ACE
2024 TARGET MALTA		3856 FLYING TIGER (CA)
2056 CAPTURE THAT SHIP		3868 THE INVISIBLE WARRIOR
2074 PILOT ERROR		3886 THE INVISIBLE ENEMY (CA)
2076 CARRIER STRIKE		3909 HIGH SPEED ACE (CA)
2090 SAVED FROM THE SEA		3916 KNOW YOUR ENEMY
2111 HIT 'EM HARD		3929 TANK TROUBLE (CA)
2136 THE LONG NIGHT		3952 AIR RAID! (CA)
2154 SECRET OF THE SEA		3965 SOUND OF DEATH
2183 DANGER - KEEP CLEAR		3987 CZECH ACE (CA)
2187 THE BLACK BUZZARD		4000 ACES ALL! (CA)
2197 WHO'S THE BEST?		4005 FIGHTING HURRICAT
2204 A QUESTION OF HONOUR		4043 AUTOMATIC PILOT (CA)
2222 FIRST COMMAND		4048 MURPHY’S LUCK
2242 OWL PATROL		4064 LONE WARRIOR
2263 JET PILOT		4084 SUBMARINE WARRIORS (CA)
2282 ACE VERSUS ACE		4091 ACE VERSUS ACE (CA)
2306 THE INVISIBLE WARRIOR		4104 IRON CROSS YANK
2331 FLYING WILD		4112 DRAGON PILOT
2342 KNOW YOUR ENEMY		4122 STRIKE OF THE THUNDERBOLT (CA)
2360 SOUND OF DEATH		4131 THE FIGHTING STORKS (CA)
2377 FIGHTING HURRICAT		4144 OPERATION EXTINCTION
2402 MURPHY'S LUCK		4149 VALLEY OF DEATH (CA)
2426 LONE WARRIOR		4154 DESERT DOGFIGHT (CA)
2445 IRON CROSS YANK		4155 AEGEAN ACE (CA)
2466 DEADLY TRIANGLE		4173 STARR’S WAR
2488 OPERATION EXTINCTION		4181 LET ME FLY
2492 EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL		4197 GIANT DUEL
2500 FAMILY OF HEROES		4208 CLOSE SUPPORT!
2511 DRAGON PILOT		4218 CONVICT SQUADRON (CA)
2532 SKY GIANT		4233 MESSERSCHMITT STORM (CA)
2536 ZIG-ZAG - OR DIE		4266 BATTLE OVER BRITAIN (CA)
2551 STARR'S WAR		4270 TOO LATE FOR GLORY
2564 ACTION AT ZERO FEET		4298 CROSSED SWORD SQUADRON (CA)
2574 GIANT DUEL		4301 WINGS OF WAR
2596 WINGED WOLVES		4312 FLYING MUSKETEERS (CA)
2598 LET ME FLY!		4319 FEARLESS FOSTER
2610 TOO LATE FOR GLORY?		4329 DIVIDED ACES (CA)
2622 SQUADRON - SCRAMBLE		4341 PILOT FOR HIRE (CA)
2644 FIRE!		4352 HUNGRY FOR GLORY (CA)
2645 SQUADRON PRIDE		4360 FLYING FURY
2663 HUNGER FOR GLORY (CA)
© D. C. Thomson & Co Ltd		Vic Whittle 2007