Commando For Action And Adventure: The Dirty Dozen (2005)
Despite its longevity, DC Thomson’s last serving pocket library title, Commando, has never gained the kind of fan documentation that other British comics have. Achtung! Commando was a short-lived attempt to change that, published at the turn of the century but lasting just four issues.
Edited by comics artist and historian Peter Richardson, only four issues of the Achtung! Commando fanzine were published, all printed individually and with sales figures in the hundreds.
Achtung Commando! was founded on the principle that there were a lot of people who were into Commando comics who just didn’t seem to know that many of the artists they were oohing and ahhing over had worked far and beyond the confines of the pages of the world’s longest running pocket library.
Issue One
52 pages
• Interview with Ken Barr
• The Commando Index – Issues 1-30 (publication date, cover art and story art)
• Patrick Wright – an appreciation
Commando – a personal recollection by David Whitehead
Issue Two
80 pages• Editorial and letters
• Writing for Commando – by David Whitehead
• 50 years of writing with Syd J. Bounds by Steve Holland
Issue Three
64 pages• Editorial
• Interview with George Low
• Commando Index – Issues 61-90
• Commando comics and me – by Harry Warren
• The writer’s craft – a closer look at Harry Warren’s Commandos
• Ken Barr – the comic strips
Issue Four
64 pages
Published in May 2002• Editorial
• Interview with Ian Kennedy
• Ian Kennedy – The Air Ace years
- Soft Cover
- In Good Condition
