Here are the latest issues of DC Thomson's Commando to fight their way through the snowdrifts to the newsagents’ shelves. Just in time for Christmas, too.If anyone is having difficulty getting copies in the seasonal weather, Commando editor Calum Laird suggest you email shop@dcthomson.co.uk, and the team there will do their best to help out. Plus, a subscription might be a wise investment as missed copies of our upcoming 50th year’s output may cause some wailing and gnashing of teeth!
Commando fans may have noticed the official website (www.commandocomics.com) has had an update. DC Thomson are trailing the launch of digital editions of Commando, launching next year, on the site, and there's now better links to an extensive guide to the title's back issues list and behind the scenes features.
Commando 4351: Death Camp
Story: Ian Clark Art: Olivera Cover Art: Alan Burrows
Previously No 2637 from 1993
Barbed wire, watchtowers and searchlights — the camp looked like any other POW cage… from the outside. But hidden behind the perimeter fence was a nightmare world where starved prisoners were forced to act as guinea pigs for the sadistic doctors of death!
Commando 4352: Hunger for GloryStory: Ian Clark Art: Josè Maria Jorge Cover Art: Josè Maria Jorge
Previously No 2663 from 1993
Colonel John Devlin, USAF, 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 to grab it when a new pilot arrived — a real hotshot, a born ace.
There and then Devlin decided that this top gun was going to be his ticket to glory…regardless of the cost of men and machines!
This is a re-issued story which reminds us of just what a talented artist the late Josè Maria Jorge was… especially when it came to aircraft. His very first Commando story will be appearing in late January 2011.
Commando 4353: Ham-Fisted HeroStory: Alan Hebden Art: Carlos Pino Cover Art: Carlos Pino
Young Wally Clegg was a nice lad but a bit of a clumsy clot. As soon as he got near a ham radio set, however, there was a veritable transformation and he became a communications wizard.
And although he was bounced out of the Royal Signals Corps, if there was radio work to be done, Wally was there to do it. Now the Japs were poised to invade India and it looked like only Wally could send the message that would stop them. With the pressure on would he be a wireless wonder or a Ham-Fisted Hero?
Commando 4354: Company of PalsStory: Alan Hebden Art: Vila Cover Art: Ian Kennedy
They marched of to war together, the young men of the town. Proud to serve their country and happy to fighting alongside their mates. But the Western Front in the First World War was a place of nightmares and the town’s nightmare came true when the company of pals was wiped out.
When the evil of war once more engulfed Europe, the military authorities made sure that, whatever casualties they had to suffer, never again would one town lose all its young men at once. It seemed, though, that fate hadn’t got the message...
• Official Commando web site: www.commandocomics.com• Click here for subscription information or write to: D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd, The Subscribers Department, Commando Library, 80 Kingsway East, Dundee DD4 8SL or Freephone (UK only) 0800 318846
• You can read interviews with former Commando editor George Low, current editor Calum Laird on the downthetubes main site.
Any other Commando subscribers out there not get these four?
ReplyDeleteI did email DCT, but they could only say that a bunch of their mail was trapped in Dundee East postal depot due to the snow over Christmas...
Commando editor Calum Laird replies:
ReplyDelete"I’m sorry to hear about this, but there wasn’t much else Bristle could be told as the answer was true! The release of the second batch of December 2010 titles coincided with our worst weather in years and huge disruption at out main Post Office.
"Bristle is a subscriber, so if he still hasn’t got these copies, he should let us know and we will send replacements as the snow has now melted and the disruption has been (reportedly) cleared.
"Any subscriber having delivery problems who reports this to shop@dcthomson.co.uk should have the matter attended to and resolved in quick time. I can’t understand why it hasn’t happened in this instance.
"You can also e-mail us through the link on the www.commandocomics.com website."
Wow, cheers John for passing the message along, and thanks Calum for the very hands-on response - I shall drop another email through tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work!
(And by way of a PS it was getting issues 4367-70 through the post this morning that reminded me, properly hot off the press!)