Tag Archives: Special Forces

HALF-PINT COMMANDO

Issue Number: 4920
Half-Pint Commando

It was a Commando raid with a difference. Among the elite soldiers, fighting right alongside with a tommy-gun was a boy of only sixteen who wasn’t even in the army! When the Commandos found young Terry Nelson stowed away on their landing craft, it was too late to do anything but give him a gun […]

NEMESIS OF THE NORTH

Issue Number: 4915
Nemesis Of The North

Smolenskaya Ostrov, a small island in the Barents Sea, was feared by the Russians, who had given it a much more ominous name — the Island of Death. This inhospitable place was uninhabited, apart from the packs of the ferocious polar bears who roamed its barren wastes. Now, “Jelly” Jakes, Titch Mooney and the rest […]

WEB OF FIRE

Issue Number: 4903
Web Of Fire

In early 1945 the skies above Dresden burned brightly with the fire of an almighty Allied bombing raid that would go down in history. Unfortunately for “Jelly” Jakes of the Convict Commandos, he happened to be on a secret mission in the heart of the German city that fateful night when all hell broke loose. […]

COSSACK VENGEANCE

Issue Number: 4891
Cossack Vengeance

Once more the Convict Commandos’ latest mission had placed them in grave danger. The Germans, in league with a Russian traitor and a horde of fearsome, renegade Cossack warriors, had concocted an assassination plot that would turn the tide of the war. Now all Jelly Jakes and the rest of the Commando team had to […]

CODEWORD – “TORCH”

Issue Number: 4888
Codeword - "Torch"

One man held the key to the operation called by the codeword – “TORCH” – the huge Allied invasion of North Africa. His name was Pete Macrory, a Canadian in the Royal Engineers – and nobody trusted him an inch. To find out why, and what made Pete tick in his own peculiar way, you […]

BANQUET OF BLOOD

Issue Number: 4879
Banquet Of Blood

Budapest, 1945. Why is Doctor Jane Mallory poised to attack her cowardly colleague, “Jelly” Jakes? The answer is at the heart of the latest mission for the Convict Commandos. They must uncover a dangerous secret which turns normal soldiers into crazed, ravenous hordes capable of killing anything – or, indeed, anyone – who gets in […]

HARD TROUBLE

Issue Number: 4871
Hard Trouble

Imagine going up against squadrons of virtually indestructible German tanks – made of incredibly strong armour that can withstand blasts from the most powerful explosive shells. The Convict Commandos were tasked with preventing this nightmare scenario. Aided by Doctor Jane Mallory of the Office of Scientific Investigation, their latest mission was to sabotage an underground […]

DAY OF THE WEREWOLF

Issue Number: 4861
Day Of The Werewolf

Although the War in Europe was over by June 1945, some groups of fanatical S.S. soldiers caused chaos for the occupying Allied forces. These rogue Nazis were known as “Werewolves” and would never surrender. Major Rick Hogan of the Office of Strategic Services had a plan to deal with a ruthless Werewolf group who attacked […]

AEGEAN ATTACK

Issue Number: 4853
Aegean Attack

In Autumn, 1943, the Royal Navy battled to seize control of the Aegean Islands from the Germans. The crew of the “Kestrel”, a sturdy Fairmile B Motor Launch were under constant attack from marauding Luftwaffe aircraft. After a mission went disastrously wrong, the boat fell into enemy hands – but not an enemy they had […]

NATURE OF THE BEAST

Issue Number: 4847
Nature Of The Beast

The Convict Commandos had been on many dangerous missions as the War raged on. Now it looked as if their latest adventure could turn out to be their last. ‘Jelly’ Jakes wasn’t just an expert safecracker – he was an expert coward too! The quivering little man had become a vital part of a scheme […]