Commando: The Inside Story of Britain’s Royal Marines

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Having been a soldier myself, I understand the experience of being cut off from society at large for periods of time. Ken Barr who has produced the cover art for over 200 issues, including the earliest ones printed in 1961. The Daily Telegraph newspaper, "The Art of Commando Comics: National Army Museum", 9 September 2011.

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In the early years, all of Commando stories were devoted to the Second World War but in more recent decades, the comic has extended its range to a variety of conflicts including the First World War, the Cold War, Spanish Civil War, the Falklands, Korea, Vietnam and even ancient and medieval conflicts.

In 2019 Commando began publishing stories with a supernatural or horror theme around Halloween each year.

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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!Insufficient beach reconnaissance meant that many tanks got stuck on the sand’s steep gradient and couldn’t advance. The realisation that Boers could only hope to win some victories against the British via using guerilla tactics really changed the course of this conflict and gave the Boers at times the upper hand despite their markedly inferior numbers and equipment thanks to their knowledge of terrain. This war was one of the first modern conflicts, with shells, dynamite bombings, concentration camps (created by the English !

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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. The Allies intended to ram the dry dock gates with an old destroyer, HMS ‘Campbelltown’, whose bows were packed with explosives. Aussie Flight Lieutenant Dick Thompson’s skill had been hard-won in the deserts of North Africa against the Luftwaffe.Behind Enemy Lines” features a trio of explosive Brits-versus-Wehrmacht yarns that show the heroic British Tommy at his best.