Issue Description

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 nineteen-forty-two.

Luckily he was better at fighting than seeing into the future...

Introduction by Scott Montgomery, Deputy Editor

The arid wastes of the North African desert have provided Commando writers with seemingly endless story opportunities. Over the year, too, we've seen many a tale based on quests to rediscover ancient artefacts imbued with power, whether symbolic or mystical.

In this case the prized object is a magnificent, jewel-encrusted staff used to by an Arab tribe to rally its warriors in an eponymous Call To Battle. But it is not just for them. The staff is something from an old, never-forgotten tale that also galvanises our everyman Commando hero, Sergeant Tim Sanderson, into action.

Commando: For Action and Adventure (1993)

Publisher

D.C. Thomson & Co.

Volume Description

British company D.C. Thomson & Co. began publishing Commando: War Stories in 1961 mostly focusing, as the name hints, on war stories from WWII and WWI respectively. This was extended to other wars and conflicts later on and since 1993, beginning with issue #2691, the series was called Commando: For Action and Adventure.

Currently D.C. Thomson publishes four issues a fortnight (eight issues a month).

The Gold Collection and Silver Collection content reprints of older stories

Home of Heroes focus on new stories about British Arm Forces

Action and Adventure focus on new stories set around the world

Format: 7 x 5.5 inch (17,75 x 14 cm); 68 pages; b/w sketches only.

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