Comic books in 'War'
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Issue #4531
Published Sep 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.00
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Coming Unstuck - Written by Alan Hebden. Art and Cover by Carlos Pino. By 1943, the Germans, desperate to counter the RAF's superfast wooden fighter-bomber, the de Havilland Mosquito, began to build the Focke Wulf Ta154. It was even known as the Moskito! They soon discovered that holding its wooden structure together wasn't as easy as they thought, and several broke up in flight. The glue they needed to hold their airframes together was a secret formula only manufactured in Britain. So the Germans came up with a plan to steal some from the source...only to come up against a bunch of plucky Brits determined to stop them...or come to a very sticky end! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4532
Published Sep 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Mario's Express - Written by Stephen Walsh. Art by Vila. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Colonel Mario Girotti was not really much of a soldier. He was more than happy to be stuck in the North African desert, in charge of a rarely-used railway station. He spent his days listening to classical music on his trusty gramophone or reading poetry. But the culture-loving Italian's peaceful war was rudely interrupted by the arrival of a group of his fellow countrymen, followed by some Nazis, all bent on escaping the oncoming British onslaught with some looted priceless treasure and, naturally enough, they wanted one of Mario's trains. Mario decided that maybe the time was right to fight, after all! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4533
Published Sep 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #49: Blood Valley - Written by Dorward. Art by F.A. Philpott. Cover by Ken Barr. Every path that led upwards from Blood Valley to the Nazi-held fortress of Cassino was a path of death. On these bullet-swept slopes, many a hero had been born...and had died. But still the German flag flew triumphantly from the battlements. And then the Commandos were sent for -- hand-picked Commandos who had their own cunning and courageous ways of bringing arrogant Nazis to their knees. Here is their heroic story. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4534
Published Sep 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$2.70
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2144: The Jokers - Written by Peter McKenzie. Art by Keith Shone. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Alf Cunningham and Percy Potter were the jokers in the pack. Oh, they were good pilots, all right, it was just that they had a nasty habit of landing themselves, and everyone around them, in deep trouble. Not exactly the best pair of men to rely on when there's a German cruiser on the loose in the English Channel! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4535
Published Sep 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.00
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The Fighting Gendarme - Written by Peter Grehan. Art by Luis Olivera. Cover by Janek Matysiak. A Gendarme, a French policeman. That's what Raoul Laurent was when World War II broke out. Sergeant Laurent decided he wasn't going to bow down before the occupying Nazis, escaping to England to join the Free French Forces and become a Commando. In time, Raoul was selected for a dangerous mission back in his homeland, helping the French Resistance to locate and destroy vital coded documents that were in Nazi hands. To succeed, though, Raoul would have to rely upon an old adversary from his police days. Not only that, pretty soon it looked like his new allies had a traitor in their midst. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4536
Published Sep 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.00
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The Tank-Killers - Written by Stephen Walsh. Art and Cover by John Ridgway. Tank, panzer, char d'assault, tahk. Call them what you will, these armoured giants struck fear into all infantrymen who faced them in battle. Not quite all, though. This is the story of four men brought together by the fates of war who challenged the metal monsters and called themselves...the Tank-Killers. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4537
Published Sep 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #14: Fly Fast Shoot First! - Story and Art by Peter Ford. Cover by Ken Barr. The machine-guns chattered their chant of death, the Spitfire spat its eight-forked tongues of flame...and from the wide blue sky tumbled another charred fragment of the once-mighty Luftwaffe. Mike Arden was a flying fool: A pilot with only one fault. In his eagerness to get into a fight, he left more than burned-out Nazis behind him -- he left a trail of broken Spitfires, too! So they gave him a choice: "Transfer to Coastal Command or stay on the ground." Mike transferred...and did things with a four-engined bomber that had never been done before! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4538
Published Sep 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.00
Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2087: Dakota Pilot - Written by Bill Fear. Art by Terry Patrick. Cover by Ian Kennedy. For Ben Smart, Dakota pilot, things had been going badly. Bad luck seemed to follow him wherever he went, and always managed to strike where it could do the most damage. And this time, of all places, it had to be the terrible battle of Arnhem. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4539
Published Oct 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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The Magic Merlin - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Morahin. Cover by Ian Kennedy. As the Battle of Britain reached its climax, RAF Flying Officer Toby Mortimer was assigned a brand new MkII Hurricane. Toby's flying suddenly improved, and he got more kills in his new Hurri. But why? Toby put it down to his new plane's Rolls-Royce Merlin XX -- because its serial number exactly matched his date of birth! That engine became his good luck charm. He was sure that his life and the Merlin's were inexplicably linked. Which was not such a good thing when another pilot had to take over his kite! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4540
Published Oct 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.30
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The Duck That Went to War - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Jaume Forns. Cover by Janek Matysiak. The DUKW, better known as the Duck, might not be as well-known as the Jeep, but this amphibious truck was just as vital to winning the Second World War. Able to take supplies from ship to shore without needing a harbour, it kept the fighting men supplied with bullets, bandages and bully beef. This is the story of one such Duck and its crew of two. Together, they got far closer to the action than you would expect for a floating lorry. Question was, would they be able to get away again in one piece? Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4541
Published Oct 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.00
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #28: Massacre in the Sun - Written by Eric Castle. Art by Gordon Livingstone. Cover by Ken Barr. When the Japanese attacked, Corporal John Reynolds dived into the bushes. When he crawled out, his two stripes had gone...and on his shoulder, he wore a Major's crown. Always he had wanted to be an officer...and now he was. He might deceive the enemy, but could he fool the Chindit battalion he was called upon to lead? Here is the strange story of the bogus major. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4542
Published Oct 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.30
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2106: And Now...Strike Back! - Written by Bill Fear. Art by Alejandro Martinez Ruiz. Cover by Jeff Bevan. Ready to board their new ship, seamen Len Garret and Tom Brooks were stunned to discover that Chief Petty Officer Alf Edwards was on their crew. Having clashed with him many years before, they knew that life under his command would be far from easy. However, in the following weeks, they changed their minds. No longer did they think Alf was going to make things difficult -- now they suspected he was trying to kill them! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4543
Published Oct 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Focke-Wulf Hi-Jack - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Rezzonico. Cover by Janek Matysiak. In 1941, the Luftwaffe's sleek and deadly Focke-Wulf 190 appeared from nowhere to terrorise the RAF. Even their best fighter, the Supermarine Spitfire MkV, was no match for it. The British needed an intact Fw190 to discover its weaknesses...and a way to defeat it. The top brass came up with a simple but dangerous plan. A crack Commando squad would lead a raid to steal a Focke-Wulf from right under the Jerries' noses! All they needed was a pilot. That's when Flight Lieutenant Tam McDermott stepped up. Fluent in German and with a working knowledge of Luftwaffe aircraft, he was perfect -- if only he could survive his Commando training! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4544
Published Oct 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Written by Alan Hebden. Art and Cover by Keith Page. Private Frankie Horton was far from the best soldier ever to serve in the Eighth Army. His rifle was likely to be the dirtiest and his uniform the scruffiest in his squad. He also had a tendency to dream, particularly about being a magician -- an ambition he had had since childhood. No one would have believed it if they were told that, thanks to Frankie, an almost certain German victory in North Africa would be averted. Not even Frankie. And he believed in magic. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4545
Published Oct 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #50: Clash of Steel - Written by Henderson. Art by Matias Alonso. Cover by Ken Barr. Every regiment has its daredevil, the one man who doesn't know the meaning of fear. In Popski's Private Army, there were nothing else but daredevils, each one more daring than the next. This is the story of a Desert Army sergeant, who accidentally came to make up a foursome with three of the toughest and craziest of Popski's desert pirates. Men said you had to be certified crazy to qualify for the PPA. Well, maybe Sergeant Dave Jones was that...crazy brave! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4546
Published Oct 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.00
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2082: A Touch of Courage - Written by Cyril Walker. Art by C.T. Rigby. Cover by Jeff Bevan. Do you believe in magic? No? Well, Englishman Sam Benson wasn't too sure either. While out in Australia, he saw an aboriginal ceremony where the natives touched a totem believing it would give them courage. Little did he know that several months later, while fighting the Japanese on the far-off island of Ketta, that same ritual would save his life! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4547
Published Nov 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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The Pigeon Patrol - Written by Mac MacDonald. Art and Cover by Keith Page. As the First World War raged around him, Lieutenant Kenny Dean cast his eyes skywards at the sound of any aero engine. The one thing he really wanted to do was to get into the air, but he would have settled for anything to do with flying. So he should have been happy when his CO posted him to a flying unit. Shouldn't he? Maybe not, for the Pigeon Patrol was not quite what he had in mind. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4548
Published Nov 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Grand Slam! - Written by Alan Hebden. Art and Cover by Carlos Pino. In 1995, an English historian discovered a mystery that had been hushed up for fifty years -- with hidden airfields, commando raids, and deadly dogfights over the Himalayas. And, ultimately, there was a daring mission involving Lancaster B1 Specials carrying lethal, ten-ton Grand Slam bombs -- the biggest and most powerful of World War II. It certainly is an amazing tale. One that has remained top secret...'til now. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4549
Published Nov 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.00
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #46: Phantom Fighters - Story and Art by Peter Ford. Cover by Ken Barr. Out of the sun, the Hurricanes roared down on the Luftwaffe's unsuspecting squadrons like eagles upon their prey. All over the Western Desert they struck -- airfields, convoys, enemy fighter patrols. No German was safe. They swooped, fought and killed -- only to disappear, flitting away at zero feet among the sand dunes, vanishing from the sight of men like ghost planes. Terror reigned in German hearts whenever the high-pitched scream of power dives warned of the coming of the...Phantom Fighters. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4550
Published Nov 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.90
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2127: Skull and Crossbones - Written by Bernard Gregg. Art by Ibanez. Cover by Jeff Bevan. Most U-boat captains were honourable men, but not this one. As his submarine pulled away from the burning hulk of the British ship, he broke one of the rules of warfare -- he machine-gunned the defenceless men in the water. Those sailors who survived would never forget the emblem on the side of that U-boat -- a red shield with a skull and crossbones. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4551
Published Nov 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$8.00
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Convict Commandos: Hell's Cauldron - Written by Alan Hebden. Art and Cover by Manuel Benet. Jelly, Titch and Smiler are back in action. Led by their "boss" Guy Tenby, the Convict Commandos are thrown into the middle of an assassination plot in Yugoslavia. They're used to being kept in the dark by Guy but this time, even he doesn't seem to know what's going on. And that could have fatal consequences for all of them. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4552
Published Nov 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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The Sergeant and the Squad - Written by Ferg Handley. Art by Luis Olivera. Cover by Janek Matysiak. He was a tough loner, a veteran of the war in the Far East, a survivor of the terrors of the jungle and a hundred brutal fights against the Japanese. The last thing he wanted was to take a group of raw recruits under his wing. To them, he was more like a machine than a man...and a killing machine at that -- gruff, remorseless and cold. To them, he was the only man who could get them through the war. But some of those rookies worried that they'd end up just like...the Sergeant. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4553
Published Nov 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #29: Sky Ace - Written by Maitland. Art by Peter Ford. Cover by Ken Barr. This is the inside story of two ace British fighter pilots, and the strange and deadly rivalry that drove them to outfly, outshoot and outdare each other through every risky second of their dog-fights with the mighty Luftwaffe. They did things with fighters no aircraft were built to do, writing the story of their feuds with each other in the skies over Southern England in the flaming wreckage of dozens of Nazi planes. They became a legend in their own lifetimes. Between these covers, for the first time, is their glorious story. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4554
Published Nov 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.00
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2141: The Chef Who Went to War - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Denis McLoughlin. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Stanley Simpson couldn't stand life in the Catering Corps. He desperately wanted to be a fighting soldier. Well, the German Army was heading straight for the kitchen where Stan worked, so his first taste of action was going to come a lot sooner than he reckoned! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4555
Published Dec 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Operation: Horsa - Written by Alan Hebden. Art and Cover by Keith Page. Captain Mike Markham and his unit of Paras were part of a small striking force sent to neutralise a flotilla of E-boats menacing Allied shipping. But when problems with their glider saw them come down many miles from their objective, they thought their role in the plan was over. Little did they know they would still have a chance to do the job...though they would have to invent a new plan as they went along. They called it...Operation: Horsa. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4556
Published Dec 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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The Brink of War - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Vila. Cover by Janek Matysiak. For Panzergrenadier Otto Feldman, the war ended in 1945 when, after escaping a ruthless Russian major who butchered his comrades, he surrendered to American forces. Years later, as the Cuban Missile Crisis put the world on the brink of nuclear war, Otto was unexpectedly back in action. He and his young son, Gunther, were caught in the middle of a clash between British Centurion tanks and Russian T54s -- not to mention an old enemy from the past. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4557
Published Dec 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #45: Fog of Doom - Written by Eric Hebden. Art by Gordon Livingstone. Cover by Ken Barr. There were many who scoffed when it was said that the battlefield at Arras was haunted -- haunted by the ghosts of the soldiers who had fought and died there in the First World War. But when the tide of battle in World War II flooded over the same ground, strange things happened. To the men who fought there, it seemed as though the spirits of the glorious British dead had risen again and were fighting shoulder to shoulder with them in one of the most vicious actions of the whole war. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4558
Published Dec 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.00
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2090: Saved from the Sea - Written by R.A. Montague. Art by Jose Maria Jorge. Cover by Ian Kennedy. The Supermarine Walrus -- slow, lumbering and almost defenceless. Not much of a plane, you might think. But to the RAF Air/Sea Rescue service, these aircraft were priceless, plucking flyers and sailors from the sea, often in atrocious weather. As the pilot of one of these remarkable boats, Ted Brewer took all this in stride. But then the day came when he himself was in danger of drowning unless a Walrus came along to save his life! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4559
Published Dec 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Nightmare Hunt - Written by Mac MacDonald. Art and Cover by Keith Page. Almost every night, Captain Neil Rigby would wake up in a cold sweat, a nightmare vision before his eyes. The face he saw, twisted with evil, was that of the Nazi officer who had ordered his men slaughtered as he lay powerless to help. Every time he saw that maniacal, distorted face, he swore vengeance, never thinking he would get the opportunity. Then fate intervened and Neil began his...nightmare hunt! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4560
Published Dec 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.00
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In the Line of Fire - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Morahin. Cover by Janek Matysiak. In the North African desert, the fast-moving vehicles of Allied armoured car reconnaissance units were always right in the thick of the action -- constantly trading shots with the enemy. Things got even more dangerous when two recce unit commanders -- nursing a decades-old grudge between their families -- began trying to outdo each other. Both were determined to be first...in the line of fire! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4561
Published Dec 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$8.00
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #47: Duel in the Sun - Written by Donald L.G. Stainton. Art by Ferran Sostres. Cover by Ken Barr. Bert Johnson settled in the pilot's seat of the RAF fighter. He wasn't a pilot, but he revved the engine, taxied the plane to the runway, and took off. As he handled the unfamiliar controls and circled to gain height, he saw, coming straight at him, a crack Luftwaffe squadron. Bert's thumbs fumbled for the gun-button on the joystick -- pilot or not, he would have to fight it out now. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4562
Published Dec 2012 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.90
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #825: From Out of the Sea... - Written by Eric Hebden. Art by Cam Kennedy. Cover by Ian Kennedy. They came by night -- sinister figures in black rubber suits, rising from the depths of the Norwegian harbour. And when they came, the Nazis shivered -- for they knew that their precious ships, their vital war materials, were the target. How they dreaded those men from out of the sea. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4563
Published Jan 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #1826: Cookhouse Heroes - Written by Roger Sanderson. Art by Alejandro Martinez Ruiz. Cover by Alan Philpott. What could a small squad of British cooks do to escape when they were trapped in a huge forest, caught up in the massive German onslaught through France? Well, it was surprising what they could do when they were led by someone as crafty as Sergeant Mike Taylor! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4564
Published Jan 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #1034: Warriors All - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Gordon Livingstone. Cover by Ian Kennedy. The little island of Dinara, off the coast of Yugoslavia, hardly knew there was a war on. Sure, they were under German occupation, but all that meant was a weekly visit from a section of infantrymen who were supposed to look out for suspicious happenings. And the only suspicious thing about Dinara was how much Stanislas Brod the innkeeper charged for his wine. Yes, a pleasant little place, Dinara -- until the day a certain strange object fell through the roof of Brod's inn. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4565
Published Jan 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.30
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #53: Seek and Destroy - Written by Henderson. Art by Uglioni. Cover by Ken Barr. Here is a special breed of soldier. His weapons: A 2-edged dagger, a sub machine gun, an automatic pistol, a strangling cord. His supplies: Maybe a couple of bars of chocolate, a little water. His duties: He is a trained parachutist, sniper, canoeist and judo expert. A man who, hopelessly outnumbered, can exist and fight behind enemy lines, who will seek and destroy his objective at all costs. His life expectancy: 48 hours, if he is lucky. This soldier is a...Commando! In this book is his story. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4566
Published Jan 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.30
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2226: Warner's War - Written by Cyril Walker. Art by Denis McLoughlin. Cover by Ian Kennedy. His Flying Fortress shot full of holes, his co-pilot wounded, many of his crew dead, himself almost passing out from loss of blood...American bomber pilot Al Warner wondered why he'd given up the safer life of a newspaper photographer to dice with death in the hostile skies over Germany. Well, it was quite a tale. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4567
Published Jan 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.30
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Collision Course - Written by Alan Hebden. Art and Cover by Keith Page. So how did Flight Lieutenant Kerrie Matheson, in his unarmed DH 86 transport, end up hurtling straight towards an enemy Bloch 220 Auvergne aircraft? Well, it had all started off as a routine secondment from his posting at Coastal Command. He became part of a mission to build a long distance air bridge, ferrying Allied planes from French-held Africa to Egypt. Then his routine flying duties took a deadly turn -- with mystery, espionage and murder setting him on a...collision course! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4568
Published Jan 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Eighty-Eight! - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Jaume Forns. Cover by Ian Kennedy. It's not every day you see a German 88mm gun being operated by a group of "Fighting Kiwis" -- New Zealanders from a British and Commonwealth Expeditionary Force battling in Greece, determined to hold back the German onslaught. But this was not an everyday story. Thanks to a bungling SS officer, the Kiwis were able to help themselves to the enemy artillery's pride and joy. Having been relentlessly pounded by the very same guns, they decided to give the Jerries a taste of their own medicine! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4569
Published Jan 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.00
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #54: Beach-Head! - Written by Parsons. Art by Gordon Livingstone. Cover by Ken Barr. Johnny Malloy was a little guy -- five foot zero or thereabouts, but he wore the coveted Commando flash on his shoulders. He seemed lazy, good-for-nothing, a coward -- yet every man in his platoon was ready to die for him when it came to the bit. Who was he then -- this odd little Commando? Just about the most important guy in the British army, that's all! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4570
Published Jan 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$2.70
Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2177: Arctic Victory - Written by David Heptonstall. Art by Terry Patrick. Cover by Ian Kennedy. After a few weeks in his new squadron of the RAF Regiment, Phil Adamson was beginning to wonder if this unit really was just for the defence of airfields. What with unarmed combat instruction, learning about explosives and a mock-raid on a local flying school, it was more like training for a crack Commando squad. He didn't know how right he was! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4571
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Convict Commandos: Frenzy of Fear - Written by Alan Hebden. Art and Cover by Manuel Benet. With the exception of Private "Jelly" Jakes -- the unit's resident coward -- the Convict Commandos were among the most fearless fighters in the British Forces. So why were they running in terror from a unit of Germans, leaving their quaking comrade behind in their haste? Something was badly awry; something had happened to throw the Convict Commandos into a...frenzy of fear! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4572
Published Feb 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Barracuda Attack! - Written by Bill Styles. Art and Cover by Carlos Pino. At flying training school, they said Sub-Lieutenant Martin Archer wasn't good enough to be a fighter pilot. Too steady, they said, not quick enough to react. What they couldn't say was that he lacked nerve. And that was just as well because they gave him a Fairey Barracuda dive-bomber to fly into the teeth of flak and fighters. That took guts of a different kind altogether. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4573
Published Feb 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #55: Torpedoes Away! - Written by Maitland. Art by Peter Ford. Cover by Graeme Miller. They called it the riskiest job in the RAF. To throw a big Beaufort torpedo bomber around the sky like a fighter-plane; to battle through flak and air attack right up to target; to roar in on your torpedo-run a bare 50 feet above the waves and lay your single "tinfish" right in the belly of a German warship...and then to fight your way back out of the flame and fury you've stirred up and bring your bomber and crew safe home. This was the job of a Beaufort pilot...and it took a special breed of hero to do it. Young Bill Overby was a Beaufort pilot, one of the best. He couldn't help becoming an ace. You see, it looked as if Bill didn't care about staying alive. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4574
Published Feb 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.00
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2178: Dragon-Ship - Written by Bill Fear. Art by Keith Shone. Cover by Jeff Bevan. A Viking longship, its fierce dragon head staring proudly out from the prow, rode the choppy seas as it pulled away from the Norwegian coast. But this was 1940, and the ship was manned not by Vikings but by the crew of an RAF flying-boat, a couple of British army officers and a Norwegian. Just what was going on? Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4575
Published Feb 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$8.00
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Drop Zone Danger - Written by Bill Styles. Art by Olivera. Cover by Janek Matysiak. Loading supplies on to C47 Dakotas wasn't the most glamorous job in the Far East. Hard work even for strong men and vitally important, but hardly the stuff of death-defying adventures. So, as Private Seth Yarrow and his mates diligently got on with their back-breaking chores, they never once imagined that they'd end up alongside a unit of Chindits -- fighting the Japanese deep in the heart of the Burmese jungle! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4576
Published Feb 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$4.20
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Voyage of the Valkyrie - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Rezzonico. Cover by Ian Kennedy. With six-inch guns, torpedo tubes and a Freidrichshafen-33 floatplane to hunt out targets for her, the German commerce raider Valkyrie was feared by British merchant crews in the South Atlantic in the early years of the First World War. So much so that the Royal Navy sent an M-Class destroyer to track her down and destroy her. However, it was another, much more unexpected enemy that the Valkyrie's crew had to fear. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4577
Published Feb 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$3.60
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #78: The Iron Man - Written by I.B. Kellie. Art by Martin Salvador. Cover by Ken Barr. Six words. Just six small words were all it took to turn the tough, loyal team that formed the crew of a fighting desert tank into a bunch of snarling, suspicious enemies. And those were the words Jack Baker, tank commander, heard from Military Intelligence only minutes before he was due to leave on a dangerous operation -- "There is a traitor among you." Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4578
Published Feb 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$8.00
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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2229: Call to Battle - Written by Ken Gentry. Art by Denis McLoughlin. Cover by Jeff Bevan. Sergeant Tim Sanderson had heard all about The Fighting Hawk from a dying relative. It was an old and priceless carving on an ebony staff, encrusted with fabulous jewels, used by an Arab tribe to call their brethren to battle. But that was in the distant past and he half-suspected that the whole thing was just a myth with no place in the savage desert clashes of 1942. Luckily, he was better at fighting than seeing into the future. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4579
Published Mar 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$8.00
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The Regimental Spoon - Written by Mac MacDonald. Art and Cover by Keith Page. Soldiers' lucky charms and mascots come in all shapes and sizes -- from medallions to pet goats and all things in between. But surely, one of the oddest objects to become a talisman of good fortune was a spoon. Yes, that's right, a humble spoon. Don't believe it? Well, between these covers is the story of how this kitchen utensil went to war with generations of the same family...and returned home safely every time. Make up your own mind if the tale is true. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.
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Issue #4580
Published Mar 2013 by D. C. Thomson & Co..$8.00
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Burma Vengeance - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Vila. Cover by Janek Matysiak. In the dense Burmese jungle, British troops were being driven back towards India, their spirits sapped by a series of defeats at the hands of the advancing Japanese. Corporal Dan Farley had been left in command of a group of fearful survivors. They expected to be killed at any moment...but then a grizzled veteran Sergeant -- ruthless and tough -- came of out of nowhere to save their skins. Dan wanted to be like this lethal newcomer, but the mysterious NCO was on a mission of his own. He had a score to settle with a brutal Japanese Colonel. This quest was personal and it could only end in death...but whose? Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W
