Commando: The Inside Story of Britain’s Royal Marines

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With chapters on the 1907 TT, many stories about the pioneer record breakers at Brooklands and all of the author's archive material, 95 % of which has previously been unpublished. Many stories from the likes of Rem Fowler, Dan O'Donovan, Rex Judd, Pat Driscoll, Dan Bradbury and of course letters and lectures by James Lansdowne himself a b "Commando comic printing moves from Suffolk to Germany". BBC News. 21 June 2013 . Retrieved 27 June 2016. Commando Artist Interview: Ian Kennedy". Commando Comics. 25 February 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Ferg Handley has written over 250 issues of Commando, most notably the series featuring the Special Raiding Force known as Ramsey’s Raiders. Stringer, Lew (6 January 2011). "Commando comic begins its 50th Anniversary". Blimey! The Blog of British Comics! . Retrieved 27 June 2016.

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Containing 12 issues: Fire Over England, Desert Fox, Danger in the Deep, The Desert of Death, The Savage Sky, The Death or Glory Mob, Zero Smasher, Island of Death, Sea Strike, Assassin!, They Flew by Night, Colonel Scarface. The stories featured in this collection range from daring bomber raids over Germany, through close-combat jungle fighting against hard-as-nails Japanese, and depth-charge blasted submarine warfare, to hard-hitting battles across North Africa, Italy and northern Europe. Manuel Benet Blanes (credited as Manuel Benet), an artist from Spain, is one of the most prolific of current artists on Commando, having illustrated the covers and interiors of hundreds of issues. For everyone in Britain, these were the darkest days of the Second World War. Our army, or what was left of it, had been withdrawn from France via the beaches of Dunkirk, disabling and abandoning arms and equipment during the desperate evacuation. While they reorganised and re-equipped there was no effective fighting force to stand against Hitler’s Wehrmacht should they choose to invade. Crossing the channel with an invasion fleet was, however, not an operation to be contemplated without complete control of the sky, otherwise the transports and landing craft would be blown out of the water by the RAF.The comics were popular in Finland, where they were known by the name "Korkeajännitys", meaning "high excitement" - it's a wordplay, referring to "korkeajännite", which would mean "high voltage". Hence the tagline: "Iskee kuin miljoona volttia", meaning "Strikes like a million volts". The term "korkeajännitys" doesn't exist in Finnish language outside this wordplay. Special issues of Korkeajännitys based on Finnish themes have been published by Egmont Publishing since 1998. These themes include Finnish Civil War, Finnish War as well as Winter War and Continuation War. Containing 10 issues: The Family Honour, Tin Can Warriors, Submarine Warriors, Killers in No-Man's Land, Mooney's Monster, Mongrel Squadron, Roar of the Guns, Duel over the Desert, Battling Bessie, Sentenced to Death! A 'bookazine' of Norton history and development based around a collection of images from the Mortons Archive

Commando: War Comic For Action and Adventure

Containing 6 issues: Aces Wild, Mustang Patrol, Glider Ace, The Fighting Few, Tiger in the Tail, Flak Fever. Colin Maxwell, a writer and artist of comics featuring historical characters and events, began writing for Commando in 2020 with issue #5371. It is still a wonderfully-told story of the Boer war through the eyes on a young man who fought all through the war. It is hard to believe that Reitz left the manuscript untouched from 1903 until it was published in 1929, as the tone is so considered that one can't help thinking that he must have re-worked the material at some point with the greater wisdom of a later day.In 2005, Carlton Books Ltd released an anthology of twelve Commando stories selected by George Low, who has edited the series since 1963. This proved a commercial success and further anthology collections have been published, some of which are themed. To date, these collections are: Graham Manley, an artist who had previously worked on The Dandy and 2000AD, began providing artwork in 2022 with his first cover on issue #5585 and interior work in issue #5589. Ken Barr who has produced the cover art for over 200 issues, including the earliest ones printed in 1961. [17]

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Still going strong, Commando prints four issues every two weeks — two all-new issues and two classic reprints from the Gold and Silver Collections.Hmm, I don't know. This one just didn't blow my skirt up. I'm a connoisseur of war books and there are very few on the Boer War from the Boer perspective but this wasn't my favorite. The first commando raids were made in small numbers, were of short duration and took place at night. Most were against coastal targets in Scandinavia and North West Europe. Published by DC Thomson, Commando Comics is Britain’s longest-serving war comic, printing stories of action and adventure since 1961.

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Their next big mission, Operation Jubilee, was a test of the defences of the port of Dieppe on 19 August 1942. Around 5,000 men of the Canadian 2nd Division were joined by 1,075 British commandos, with naval and air support. Gordon Livingstone who was one of the first artists employed by Commando when it began in 1961. His first issue was Commando No 4- Mercy for None first printed in July 1961. Livingstone produced the interior story art for over 360 issues of Commando, his last work being issue no 3293- Sweeney's Island, released in December 1999, the same year he retired. [15] He died in 2017. [16]

Commando Collected Editions, Anthologies". LetsGoCommando. 12 September 2022 . Retrieved 13 September 2022. Commando in its long history has employed 140 writers, over 100 cover artists & 120 interior artists. [10] These artists & writers have been based in a variety of locations including the UK, Italy and Argentina. Some writers and artists who have worked on Commando include:- Ian Kennedy who, since 1970, has produced the cover-art for over 1200 issues of Commando and has also done the interior story art for a number of them (he also worked for Battle, Air Ace & War Picture Libraries). [20] Ian, who had over 70 years experience working in comics died in 2022.