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28 March 2025

UPDATED: Commando - heritage characters

Update to include another Codename Warlord story - issue 5841 - which is out now!

Updated to include another Kampfgruppe Falken issue (#5827) which is out now!

Updated to include another Union Jack Jackson issue (#5813) and a Sergeant Rayker issue (#5817)

Updated to include Commando 5803 (which is on sale currently). It's another Lord Peter Flint issue

Updated to include issue Commando 5799 which is on sale currently. It's another Cadman issue - art by Mike Dorey.

To celebrate the release (last week I think) of Commando issue 5759 (below) and the inclusion of Kampfgruppe Falken in it I thought I'd log the other back issues of Commando that feature other DC Thomson 'heritage' characters.

Have I missed any? Just let me know!

Commando 5759

Commando 5827

Braddock has two issues so far

Commando 5269

Commando 5267

Lord Peter Flint has appeared in 4 issues as well

Commando 5255

Commando 5263

Commando 5803

Lord Peter Flint, AKA Codename: Warlord, relied on being a 'coward' to stop being suspected as a secret agent! So when a journalist tried to write a hit piece on him, that was the least of his worries! He was busy stopping a REAL assassination plot!

Commando 5841

Britain’s finest spy, Lord Peter Flint, is on another top-hole adventure! After Warlord’s most disastrous mission yet, Flint ends up as the number one target of ‘six of the best’ assassins the world has ever seen!
But why does the phrase ‘six of the best’ seem familiar to him? Who is the mysterious sixth assassin who is an ‘old friend’ of Flint’s?
Will these questions be answered – or will this be the end of Codename Warlord?!

Cadman has 3 issues so far

Commando 5697

That cowardly cad returns! From the pages of The Victor to Commando, Cadman the Fighting Coward looks skyward to escape the trenches - but he soon finds that life in the Royal Flying Corps isn't any easier or safer than on the ground!

5665 - interior art by Mike Dorey, cover art by Mike Dorey & Neil Roberts

5799 - interior art by Mike Dorey, cover art by Mike Dorey

Union Jack Jackson

Commando 5287

Commando 5813

Union Jack Jackson's back! With a little help from his pals, Jack must find an airfield which has been launching attacks on Navy convoys. But he get more than he bargained for when he sees aircraft taking off from the back of a submarine!

Sergeant Rayker

Commando 5817

Last seen in Warlord in 1984, Sergeant Moses Rayker returns! Trapped behind enemy lines, Rayker encounters an unfriendly face in the form of Buford ‘Bubba’ Ballard. Will Rayker end up smacking the tar outta him before they make it back?

27 March 2025

Clearmark comics - summer specials (1990)

I've looked before at comics publisher Clearmark comics...

Were Bears comic is here

The world of Wym comic is here

Tom and Jerry here

Rupert here

Popular fairy tales is here

Cookie here

Henry's cat here

But it turns out they also produced a number of (1990) summer specials. As we can see from the advert below...

...which is itself taken from the Jimbo and the jet set 1990 summer special

26 March 2025

Simon Davis - Panter & Hall (part 2 of 3)

The (2000AD) artist Simon Davies recently had a show of his fine art paintings in London recently (at Panter & Hall). I went and photographed the art. Enjoy!

The first part was here

The second part is here...

25 March 2025

Dick Tracy - Fleetway publications, 1990

It's a welcome to the blog to Dick Tracy who's making his first appearance here today. I've picked out the 1990 movie tie-in books that Fleetway publications produced in 1990.

The first 2 books ('Big city blues' and 'vs the underworld') you seem to see quite often but I'd never seen the 3rd volume before I put this post together. Perhaps the series wasn't the success that Fleetway hoped and they reduced the print run for volume 3 accordingly??

All images c/o here

24 March 2025

Alien 3 movie special (1992)

I've looked at a few Dark Horse International titles over the years...

Jurassic Park here

Star Wars featuring Indiana Jones here

Max Overload! #1 here

Max Overload! #2 here

...and today it's the turn of the short-run title Alien 3 movie special - a 3 issue series from 1993. All images c/o the GCD here

Alien 3 movie special issue 1, Dark Horse International, August 1992, £1.50

Alien 3 movie special issue 2, Dark Horse International, September 1992, £1.50

Alien 3 movie special issue 3, Dark Horse International, October 1992, £1.50

23 March 2025

Cartoon museum publications

I've long wanted to catalogue publications that the Cartoon Museum (here) have published. I'm not sure how many there are out there but this is my way of starting to finding out!

Grin and Blair it! (exhibition 27th October - 18th December 2004)

Ronald Searle - graphic master (exhibition 3rd March - 4th July 2010)

HM Bateman - the man who went mad on paper (exhibition dates unknown)

22 March 2025

The Windsor tapestry - part 1

It's very nearly your last chance to catch 'The Windsor tapestry' exhibition at the Cartoon Museum as the exhibition closes a week tomorrow (Sunday 30th March 2025), don't miss it!

Metres and metres of Steve Bell art - what's not to love?!?! There'll be full photographic coverage here on the blog but only after the exhibition has closed. Enjoy!