Commando for Action and Adventure (1993 UK) comic books in grade VG or lower

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In Flanders Sky... - Written by George Low. Art by Keith Page. Cover by Ian Kennedy. On the morning of 28 June 1914, two pistol shots fired in a Sarajevo street plunged the world into war and pitched men of all nations against one another. For centuries, men had battled for martial supremacy on the ground but now, after four years of war, they had taken their battles to the air. In the sky over Flanders, two of these new gladiators held the fate of many, many men in their gauntleted hands. Would those below live...or die? Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #985: Flying Wild - Written by R.A. Montgomery. Art by Jose Maria Jorge. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Sergeant Sam Brent was an ace pilot, but he took mad risks -- and now he was in big trouble. An enemy shell had shattered his cockpit canopy, not only giving him a splitting headache but also affecting his sight. It got worse and worse until he was virtually flying blind...and he still had to land. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Saxon Eagles - Written by Ferg Handley. Art and Cover by John Ridgway. The Ninth Century AD was a turbulent, violent time. Anglo-Saxon Britons had to fend off constant attacks from marauding and blood-thirsty Scandinavian warriors -- the much-feared Vikings. Young Cedric was a Saxon -- brave and willing to fight to defend his village from Viking hordes. As he did so, though, he had to face an equally deadly, but more sinister, enemy from closer to home. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #984: Night of Fear - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Patrick Wright. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Transylvania -- an eerie land of legends, of werewolves and vampires, of hauntings and spine-chilling screams in the dark. Not the most welcoming place in the world to crash-land in at dead of night -- especially when your Mosquito is damaged, not by Nazi flak…but by a swarm of thousands of large, black bats! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #131: Doom River - Written by W. Spence. Art by Matias Alonso. Cover by Chaco. Had they survived the landing at the deadly river-mouth, mined and ambushed by the Japanese, and fought their way through the horrors of the jungle, just to be picked off on this ridge by Japanese planes? Was this the finish -- here, when below them lay the secret Japanese airfield they'd come so many blood-stained miles to destroy? Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Armistice! - Written by George Low. Art by Keith Page. Cover by Ian Kennedy. On the morning of 28 June 1914, two pistol shots fired in a Sarajevo street had plunged the world into war. A little over four years later, the guns finally fell silent. An armistice had been agreed. Now the surviving soldiers, sailors and airmen could return home and resume their lives. For some, it wouldn't be as simple as that, though. For some, there were still battles to be fought -- even if they couldn't fight them for themselves. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Out for Justice - Written by George Low. Art by Vila. Cover by Janek Matysiak. By summer 1945, the war in Europe was over but there was still much work for men like Military Police Lieutenant Grant Sim. He helped to keep the peace in a shattered Germany where danger lurked in the form of unexploded bombs, and crime was rife on its ravaged streets. Grant had unfinished business, too. His brother, an RAF pilot, had been callously executed after being shot down. Now, with an unlikely ally to aid him, the Redcap was poised to capture his brother's killer. He was...out for justice! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2262: Too Old to Fight - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Gordon Livingstone. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Regimental-Sergeant-Major Burnham Bulworth had been a soldier for forty years. Built like a tank, he was an ogre on the parade ground, a legend on the battlefield; his whole life dedicated to the army. Some said he could chase off entire enemy divisions on his own. But the greatest threat to his career wasn't the Germans...it was a short-sighted clerk with the devastating news that Burnham was now...too old to fight. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #912: Private Apache - Written by Ken Gentry. Art by Jim Watson. Cover by Ian Kennedy. When it comes to living and fighting in the desert, the Apache have no equal, and Juan Running Deer was a true Apache. His eagerness to be a warrior like his ancestors led him to North Africa with the British Army in 1942. Soon, the battleground echoed his tribe's ancient war cry, "Da'itsaah!" -- "Unto Death!" Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #1020: 'Target Ahead!' - Written by Alan Hebden. Art by Patrick Wright. Cover by Ian Kennedy. The big four-engined bombers droned their way north over the sea, a few miles out from the Eastern coast of the USA. They kept tight formation, flying fast and low. If anyone had seen them, they would have been mistaken for American planes on a training flight...except that there was no one to see them. And this was deliberate, for they were Junkers 290s of the Luftwaffe -- and their target was New York. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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'Eagles, Arise!' - Written by Ferg Handley. Art and Cover by Keith Page. England, after 1066, was a violent place. As William of Normandy tightened his grip on the English throne, it was a time of war and great unrest. The incoming Norman forces ruled with an iron fist. One especially cruel member of the new ruling class was Roland of Alain -- who aimed to crush any resistance from those he regarded as peasant upstarts. One such "upstart" was Carrick. He and his band of rebels were determined to put up a fight against their oppressors. A fight to the death, if necessary. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #1092: Tempest Fury - Written by Ken Gentry. Art by Gordon Livingstone. Cover by Ian Kennedy. In the summer of 1944, a frightening new weapon was unleashed against the war-weary British -- the dreaded V1 flying bomb. Sergeant-Pilot Jamie Collins had a personal score to settle with these robots of death. So when his squadron-leader grounded him after yet another display of reckless flying, it didn't stop him. Where there were V1s, that's where Jamie wanted to be, at the controls of his hard-hitting tempest fighter. Orders or no orders. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #156: Brothers at War - Written by Gordon Brunt. Art by Gordon Livingstone. Cover by Ken Barr. Meet Clive Rushden, brilliant Hurricane pilot. Meet Mark Rushden, young Commando officer. They were brothers, but put them in the same room and they'd be at each other's throats. What a pair to choose for one of the most daring missions ever conceived -- and behind enemy lines. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Deadly Drop - Written by George Low. Art by Olivera. Cover by Janek Matysiak. After a "friendly fire" incident cost the lives of his comrades, Private Ron Allan clashed violently with a fellow paratrooper, Corporal Alec Brown, the man he held responsible. Tensions were still high between them when, en route to a drop zone, history repeated itself. Alec's Horsa glider smashed into Ron's, sending both spiraling downwards. Alec's life was now in as much danger from his supposed colleague as it was from the Germans -- provided they both survived the drop to the hungry sea below. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Frozen by Fear - Written by Ferg Handley. Art by Rezzonico. Cover by Janek Matysiak. Most jungle firefights are fought over short range and are over in a few minutes. Vision is limited and snap shots at targets are the order of the day. Australian Army Corporal Jerry Warner was caught up in one such skirmish. With night falling and his life in jeopardy, he blazed away, knocking down attacker after attacker. Then he was blown unconscious by a mortar blast. He survived, but that night continued to haunt him -- and he couldn't work out why! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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The Eagles Strike! - Written by Ferg Handley. Art and Cover by Keith Page. The mid-17th century would turn out to be the most turbulent time in England's already tempestuous history. In summer 1642, a full-scale civil war erupted between the armies of the Royalist "Cavalier" and the Parliamentary "Roundheads." Even the village of Teverton in the far south-west of Britain was caught up in the strife, and a centuries-old feud between a trio of families was re-ignited by the spark of war. Things looked bleak as Englishmen battled fellow Englishman. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #2359: Duel in the Snow - Written by David Heptonstall. Art by Ibanez. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Climbing dazedly from the shattered cockpit of his hijacked Zero, Pilot Officer Bill O'Hara was relieved to find himself still in one piece. But his troubles weren't over yet. A deadly duel was about to begin on the side of a mountain will Bill, unarmed and exhausted, against a fanatical enemy officer out for revenge! Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Reprinting Commando War Stories in Pictures (1961 D. C. Thomson Digest) #1064: Shield of Truth - Written by Ken Gentry. Art by Gordon Livingstone. Cover by Ian Kennedy. Buried under rock and sand in the North African Desert lay the Shield of Truth. Made of bronze, highly polished, it revealed the truth about any man who looked into its mirror surface. Hidden for over two thousand years, it was found by two British pilots who had staggered mile after mile across the merciless sands. When they stared at their reflections in it, one saw his bravery dissolve into fear...and the other saw his fear change to bravery. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.

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Eagles of New Eden - Written by Ferg Handley. Art and Cover by Keith Page. After the tumultuous events of the English Civil War, Sergeant Samuel Carrick and his fellow Roundhead soldiers were victorious but disillusioned. So disillusioned, that they sailed away to start new lives in the far-off Americas. The idyllic farming colony they established was christened New Eden. Here they worked hard and lived peacefully off the fruits of their labours. This peace was shattered when enemies old and new stood against them. It seemed Samuel and his comrades would have to fight for their lives once more. Weekly British War comics digest. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W.