Mystery in the Desert
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- Mon 21 Nov 2011
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Introduction by Calum Laird, Commando Editor...
As I recall, Ken Gentry - who penned this tale - was a South
African newspaperman with a sideline in Commando stories. I worked
on a few of his over the years. Here he weaves a web of deceit with
a double-crossing British agent, a straightforward Aussie pilot,
and a luckless German commander.
Cecil Rigby who provided the inside art for this story had also
worked on newspapers, as a very good caricaturist, and he wasn't
bad at Commando either, having been in at the start.
Ian Kennedy, who provided the cover, puts himself in the cockpit
of every plane he draws. I hope he made an exception with this one
- that looks like a painful crash.
(Mystery in the
Desert, originally Commando No.1370 - November
1979.)
