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Commando: For Action and Adventure #4668 The Lost Squadron
Cover Date: January, 2014
"Slim" Sothern, fighter pilot, floated in the Channel in his Mae West and cursed his rotten luck. Sure, an ambulance rescue seaplane was circling above, but it was German, and Slim feared that for him the war was over, and only the deadly dullness of pri ...
Issue Description
"Slim" Sothern, fighter pilot, floated in the Channel in his Mae West and cursed his rotten luck. Sure, an ambulance rescue seaplane was circling above, but it was German, and Slim feared that for him the war was over, and only the deadly dullness of prison camp lay ahead.
How wrong can you be?
He was taken prisoner all right but inside a week such strange and mysterious things had happened to Slim Sothern that he, and other RAF pilots like him, had been turned into a "Squadron of the lost," and were flying Messerschmitts for the Germans against the British.
Introduction
I reckon Peter Ford is an unsung hero of the early years of Commando. His crisp, accurate lines - especially, but not only, when dealing with aircraft - is up there with the best of comic illustrators. He was one of the few Commando artists to write stories as well, but here those duties are done by Boutland who manages to weave fighters, bombers, Resistance fighters and nasty Nazis together in a fantastic high-octane cocktail.
Striking though it is, Ken Barr's cover only hints at the treasures within.
Calum Laird, Commando Editor
Note: Original released as Commando No 134 (Sept 1964) and re-issues as No 695 (November 1972).
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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