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Commando For Action and Adventure, formerly known as Commando War Stories in Pictures, and colloquially known as Commando Comics, is a British comic book magazine that primarily draws its themes and backdrops from the various incidents of the First and Second World Wars. It was first published in July 1961 and is still in print today. It is noted for its distinctive 7 5 inch, 68 page format that became a standard for these kinds of stories. "Commando" has remained more popular than many other British war comics, because of its character based stories and detailed black and white artwork, with only the covers in colour.[citation needed]

The comic series, then going by the title Commando War Stories in Pictures, was launched by D.C. Thomson of Dundee, Scotland, in July 1961. It was an addition to the company's already high-profile comics, such as The Beano and The Dandy, as well as The Victor launched earlier that same year. During its launch year two issues were published per month, but due to the comic's increasing popularity this rose to four a month. Since 1971 there have been eight issues published per month. As of issue 539, certain stories have been reprinted. In September 1993 the comic title changed to Commando For Action and Adventure. The last issue to feature the former title was issue 2690, Password to Freedom, published in August. The first comic to feature the new title was issue 2691, A Race Against Time, published the following month.[3]

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As well as the comics, annuals were also produced in 1989 and 1990, each containing seven new stories. The annuals were in full colour and illustrated in the style of the time, not in the original style of the comics.

At its peak in terms of sales, in one month during the 1970s, Commando's comics circulation figures reached 750,000 according to George Low, who began working with Commando in 1963 and retired as editor in 2007.[4][5] Current circulation is 9,600 copies a fortnight per issue.[6]

The artwork is in black and white except for the covers, with the lettering done in typewriter font. Until recently writers and artists went uncredited as usual for D.C Thomson comics, though now a small grenade icon appears on the first panel, crediting individuals with story, art and cover.

The comics were popular in Finland, where they were known by the name "Korkeajnnitys", meaning "high excitement" - it's a wordplay, referring to "korkeajnnite", which would mean "high voltage". Hence the tagline: "Iskee kuin miljoona volttia", meaning "Strikes like a million volts". The term "korkeajnnitys" doesn't exist in Finnish language outside this wordplay. Special issues of Korkeajnnitys 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.

Publisher of Commando, DC Thomson is a leading media organisation in the UK. Established in 1905, DC Thomson publishes a huge selection of popular magazines and newspapers covering daily news, comics and lifestyle topics.

My inspiration for Commando comics can come from a bunch of different places. TV shows, larp events, conversations on Twitter, things I studied at university, these have all fed into issues. Most come from plugging together more than one source.

Indeed I was. Superb books.

Was also a fan of a short lived comic called Bullet some time in the late 70s. I think it later merged with another comic called Warlord.

Didn't know comics could actually merge as such but by then I had moved on to some other hero type...

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I dont know if this is the topic for historic forum, but the 'War comics' were how I started off with the fascination with aircraft and the second world war history. I regularly used to get the Commando Series, the War Picture LIbrary, the Battle Picture library comics in India till the early 90s when suddenly the distributors lost interest in them. Its very difficult to find them in the second rung cities anymore. and all we find are the older stuff.

Are they still around? I remember that the 'latest' Commando comic I read was in the 2400 series.. what number is there now? Besides, one of the last comics i read they were branching out to beyond WW2, having done one on the Korean Air War.

Commando books are still published by DC Thompson of Dundee. 4 are issued every fortnight, some are reprints some are new stories and they sometimes feature other conflicts such as colonial wars or even Roman Empire campaigns. You can buy them in large branches of WH Smith or subscribe via DC Thompson and Co. The stories are often trite, the artwork varies from excellent to dreadful but the best thing about them is the covers. Some covers are by Ian Kennedy who is the greatest aviation artist to work in comics. Apparently, a special edition featuring the dozen best Commando stories of all time is about to be published.

Remember those graphic pieces of fiction recounting deeds of derring-do in the Second World War? Full of clean shaven, square jawed, heroic Brits, larger than life Yanks, sinister, cheating, Geneva Convention-breaking Nazis and buck toothed, cowardly, POW-abusing Japs. Some wonderful war yarns, though. These mags also seem to have provided the vocabulary for Foundation Level German when that came along in the 80s. Germans, it seems, manage to express themselves entirely through the medium of phrases like "Gott in Himmel", "schweinhund", "kamerad", "jawohl mein oberst", "aaargh" (when shot), "schnell" and "sieg heil". Japs, in contrast seemed to say "aiiieee" when shot and little else other than "banzai". And the Brits, of course, didn't actually get shot very often in Commando comics.

Talking of comics, are there any former Valiant readers out there? Remember Captain Hercules Hurricane and his Pint Sized batman Maggot Malone? The Captain was rather prone to getting into a "ragin' fury" if he was crossed by any "squareheads".

That's funny... neither did I! Was it because battles against the Germans were in a more familiar European context or was it that victory (since "we" - give or take the odd evacuation of Norway - never seemed to lose in these comics!) over the Third Reich was always sweeter? :003:

Commando comics had great educational value. I never did any german at school, but the comics have got me through trips to Berlin and Munich. "Donner Und Blitzen" usually gets you a kebab and a beer, "schnell" gets you a double room for the night, and "Englischer Schweinhund" gets you a round of applause.

I supposde wandering down Unter den Linden quoting from Commando comics is rather like a German on Princes Street uttering things like "Hoots mon, it's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the noo, jings, crivvens, help ma boab.... we're aaa dooooomed!"

But as well as showcasing the art, the exhibition also tackled the history of war comics, how they came about and the main rivalry that Commando had with its competitors such as War Picture Library. The latter lost its way (and its readership) in the early to mid-eighties leaving the door open for the purer story-led approach and the stronger brand of Commando.

But rather than just offering a window into the escapist world of males of certain ages, there are also the stories of the commando brigades set up in World War Two, the commando insignia and the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife.

Commando truly is the home of heroes, covering air, land, and sea battles as classic comics show the Royal Navy, British Army, Royal Air Force, Home Guard, Special Forces and SAS do their bit to fight back against the Nazi regime. ff782bc1db