Issue Description

Look how young Sergeant-pilot Jack Sherwood left a Nazi prison camp - on the end of a home-made, twelve-foot vaulting pole!

And this is only one of a hair-raising series of close shaves Jack survives in this great yarn. Sprinter, weight-lifter, jumper and vaulter, this crack user athlete has to pull out he knows before he gets clear of the Germans to fly - and fight - again.

Introduction

POW stories have always been a bit problematic in Commando. We've always tried to have lots of action in our stories so the static setting of a Stalag doesn't really work. The other thing that's difficult is having a lone character featuring throughout the tale. Endless pictures of a thoughtful hero can get a bit wearing. And yet, Mr Tyson has used both these themes and made a Commando tale that works very well.

With Medrano's inside art and Ken Barr's slightly misleading cover, this is a rare classic seeing the light of day for the first time in 40 years.

Calum Laird, Commando Editor

Note: Originally published as Commando No 186 (October 1965), re-issued as No 815 (February 1974).

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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