Commando Comics

[CB Saint]

Does anyone remember these?

 

I was browsing in Waterstones yesterday and they had complilations of various commando comics. Took be back to my childhood. I can remember waiting for gran to turn up on Wednesdays with that weeks new issues.

 

Needless to say the wife was incredible annoyed and then bemused when she found me half an hour later still reading the things.

 

Happy days

[Redondo Saint]

Yes I do!

 

Full of storys about beating the "jerrys' and "japs"! The pics of Jerrys were always fat and the japs were tiny slit eyed geeks!!!

[RonManager]

Yes I do!

 

Full of storys about beating the "jerrys' and "japs"! The pics of Jerrys were always fat and the japs were tiny slit eyed geeks!!!

 

And other great lines such as -

 

'For you Fritz/Tommy Atkins the war is over

Donner unt Blitzen

Achtung, mein gott

Banzai

Aiiieeeee!!!!!!!'

[CB Saint]

And other great lines such as -

 

'For you Fritz/Tommy Atkins the war is over

Donner unt Blitzen

Achtung, mein gott

Banzai

Aiiieeeee!!!!!!!'

 

I think was my paticular favourite

[latter day saint]

used to love reading these.remember my grandad buying them for me & we would both sit & read them

bit of info here http://www.commandomag.com/

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

And other great lines such as -

 

'For you Fritz/Tommy Atkins the war is over

Donner unt Blitzen

Achtung, mein gott

Banzai

Aiiieeeee!!!!!!!'

 

 

Kill the Englanders

[dune]

Was the shop busy, were there plenty of people at the tills?

[Viking Warrior]

Great Books

 

Let them ave it

kill kill for the emperor Banzai Kill the english dogs

Well done sarge you killed the squint eyed yellow belly

 

Can you imagine our boys in Afghan coming out with such comments . the PC will be having a field day with the Human Rights act

[Saint_clark]

I remember one about some American soldiers that holed up with some Greeks in a villa only to find out they were weapon smugglers. Or something. I do miss them...

[amsterdam]

"Eat lead, Fritz!"

"Die, Britischer pig-dog!"

 

 

Class...

[timebomb]

And other great lines such as -

 

'For you Fritz/Tommy Atkins the war is over

Donner unt Blitzen

Achtung, mein gott

Banzai

Aiiieeeee!!!!!!!'

 

This is bizarre, I was thinking about these comics last week!

The thing I wondered was, did the Germans really shout out the names of Santa's reindeer when they got very surprised?

Just seems odd.

[mcjwills]

Won a load ,circa 50, as a booby prize in a raffle in the pub one day, so took them home and placed them by the toilet at home, the result was when anyone came round they spent at least 20 mins in the lav reading at least 1 or 2 books.

[CHAPEL END CHARLIE]

A memorable part of my 70's childhood - four a fortnight at 25p each from dear old WH Smith if memory serves. By the time I grew out of them I must have amassed many, many 100's of issues - I've often wished I'd kept them now.

 

DC Thompson's 'Commando' had its (inferior) rivals such as the even more bloodthirsty 'War Picture Library' - I can distinctly remember a Nazi goon being stabbed so brutally you could see the bayonet enter his back & emerge from his chest - a graphic image to put before children I suppose but pretty tame compared to some of the computer games they now have.

 

I noticed a while ago that you can get a glossy compilation book with the vintage cover art properly reproduced on a large scale - some of it surprisingly good.

Edited 21 November, 2010 by CHAPEL END CHARLIE

[Hatch]

Got quite a few, recently bought a compiliation book, and as said above, perfect bog reading material.

 

I love them.

[anothersaintinsouthsea]

"Gott in Himmel"

"Take that Tojo"

[Jonnyboy]

****, id forgotten about those, used to read them as a kid in the 80s

[thefunkygibbons]

Oh yes

 

Gott in Himmel was a classic line

[Dimond Geezer]

I used to buy 2 a week, along with Roy of the Rovers when I got my paper round money on a Saturday morning. I must have had over 100 of them. I've no idea what happened to them, probably gave them to a jumble sale somewhere .

 

I blatently plagiarised 2 of them for my English O-level project.

[Special K]

Absolute class. Was one character called Union Jack Jackson? a hard as nails Sarge who'd single handedly take out a machine gun nest manned by half a dozen Fritzy's.

[Deppo]

I preferred Whoopee And Wow.

[Special K]

I preferred Whoopee And Wow.

 

I was also a Whizzer and Chips fan myself.

[Redondo Saint]

And other great lines such as -

 

'For you Fritz/Tommy Atkins the war is over

Donner unt Blitzen

Achtung, mein gott

Banzai

Aiiieeeee!!!!!!!'

 

 

 

Brilliant!!!

 

I also remember there was a fearless officer that had a 'batman' (obviously a member of the working class!) look after him....