Saw these issues of 'Commando' magazine today in my local newsagent and was pleased to see it was still running, 5oth anniversary this year. As a kid growing up in the 1970s, this was what we were into, tales from World Two, which wasn't so far away in those days - everyone knew someone who was involved. We all preferred the German uniforms, Tiger tanks, Stukas and BMW with sidecar and MG42 machine gun, though in play, the Brits always won. I couldn't afford to buy these small comic books new so would pick up piles of faded, dog-eared ones for pennies from local church jumble sales (sorry, not sure if you have/had jumble sales where you are - er, garage sale type thing.). Nice to see we haven't gone so PC in this country that we can't still have some decent WW2 stuff on the shelves for kids.
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I remember being bought one of those in the Portscatho newsagent for one of those rainy afternoons where we were stuck indoors.
Which in reality was probably most afternoons. Thank goodness for 1/32 scale Airfix German Paratroopers then.
My brother and I used to have these in the 60's and I didn't realise you could still get them. We always thought the German uniforms,tanks etc looked much better too, but I do have a soft spot for Sten-guns, Bren guns, Spitfires,Lancaster bombers and Mosquito's etc.... Hopefully catch you Wednesday. John
I used to love these! I have a funny feeling that I'll be searching eBay later for some old copies!!!
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