Commando: The Inside Story of Britain’s Royal Marines

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a b c Ray, Austin L. (17 April 2012). "Linda Ramone on Johnny Ramone's Fearless Life and Death". MTV . Retrieved 29 September 2013. Where else could you come across titles like ‘Desert Fox’, ‘They Flew By Night’, ‘Sea Strike’, ‘The Death Or Glory Mob’ or ‘Zero Smasher’? And where else could you go into action alongside a British army sergeant hunting down a German tank with only his Tommy gun and a couple of grenades . . . or the Lancaster pilot who knew no fear until he was put behind the controls of an aircraft that was jinxed?

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a b c d e f g Moody, Nekesa Mumbi (18 January 2012). "Johnny Ramone's 'Commando' Autobiography To Be Released In April". Billboard Magazine . Retrieved 28 September 2013. The comics were popular in Finland, where they were known by the name "Korkeajännitys", meaning "high excitement" - it's a wordplay, referring to "korkeajännite", which would mean "high voltage". Hence the tagline: "Iskee kuin miljoona volttia", meaning "Strikes like a million volts". The term "korkeajännitys" doesn't exist in Finnish language outside this wordplay. Special issues of Korkeajännitys 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.Ken Barr who has produced the cover art for over 200 issues, including the earliest ones printed in 1961. [17] The stories contain certain characteristic motifs; to mention a few – courage, cowardice, patriotism, dying for the sake of one's country, noble actions, and making a cup of refreshing tea while in the face of danger, enmity turning into friendship when the going gets tough, and so on. Apart from portraying these universal qualities, Commando Comics also show soldiers in national stereotypes, glorifying Allied soldiers, but showing soldiers as a mixture of good and evil. [2] There was usually no continuity between books; each book was a complete story with start and finish, though recently series (2 or 3 stories) of books following the same character have been published. Their next big mission, Operation Jubilee, was a test of the defences of the port of Dieppe on 19 August 1942. Around 5,000 men of the Canadian 2nd Division were joined by 1,075 British commandos, with naval and air support. Both the Commandos and parachutists won their ferocious reputations by fighting as elite, but traditional soldiers, in North Africa, Italy and North West Europe, often in large brigade-sized formations. This was different from the role originally conceived for them in 1940. a b "Commando comic printing moves from Suffolk to Germany". BBC News. 21 June 2013 . Retrieved 27 June 2016.

Commando: The Inside Story of Britain’s Royal Marines

a b Hastings, Rob (9 August 2011). "50 years of war: Adaptable 'Commando' comic still going strong". Independent . Retrieved 27 June 2016.Containing 12 issues: Inland Navy, Rileys Rifle, Aces Wild, Trouble Spot, Mustang Patrol, Death Patrol, The Ship Busters, Battle Wagon, Three...Two...One...Zero!, March of the Monsters, Man of Iron, Glider Ace. (This book was also published in two other editions, one called 'The 12 Best Commando Stories ever' (with different cover art also) and the other entitled 'Call of Battle', published by Seven-Oaks in 2009 which had identical cover-art to 'Dirty Dozen' but contained 10 of the above 12 stories). Commando, Private Apache, No. 912, P.46, Nazi says "Ja, more British to kill", fellow soldier is shown thinking "This man is truly evil, how can he think like this?" Featuring ‘Inland Navy’, ‘The Ship-Busters’, ‘March of the Monsters’, ‘Bright Blade of Courage’, ‘Mighty Midget’ and ‘Another Tight Spot’. Hair-raising tales of naval missions on the lethal wartime seas.

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Handle this latest bumper book of the best Commando war stories with care. You’ll need nerves of steel to cope with the drama and the excitement, and once you’ve found a safe spot to settle and open the book . . . well, you’ll be hooked.

The highly-trained airborne soldiers went on to serve in North Africa (1942-43), Sicily (1943), Italy (1943-44), southern France (1944) and Greece (1944-45). Five parachute battalions landed in France prior to D-Day (1944) to destroy bridges and gun batteries. They also helped cut off German reinforcements from the Normandy beachheads. For a great introduction to Commando comics, Commando 50 Years: A Home for Heroes , by former editor George Low, contains six of the best comic stories, 50 of the title’s most iconic covers, profiles of the best artists and writers; and the inside story of Commando HQ at the publishers DC Thomson. It includes a complete Commando comic book listing from Issue 1 to Issue 4404.