Tag Archives: Manuel Benet

YURI: ON THE RUN

Issue Number: 4969
Yuri: On the Run, cover by Manuel Benet

Yuri Murayev, ex-Spetznaz Commando, thought that his troubles were behind him. But he hadn’t reckoned on Anatoly Speck, the sinister Russian billionaire who had made it his business to destroy the former commando. Framed for murder, and on the run, Yuri finds himself in a deadly cat and mouse game, wanted by both the Russian […]

YURI’S RETURN

Issue Number: 4957
Yuri's Return

Yuri Muryavev, a retired “Shock Force” Spetznaz Commando, had settled in the UK but, after the collapse of communism, he returned to his Russian homeland. Wishing to do honest work, he took on a job offer to provide security for an aid agency operating in South America. However, Yuri did not realise that he was […]

ICE-COLD COMBAT

Issue Number: 4943
Ice-Cold Combat

When their Handley Page Hampden bomber was shot down, Pilot Officer Drew Grange and Sergeant Adam Weir were stranded on the icy border between Norway and Russia. Helped by a couple of civilian hunters, the R.A.F. men were soon embroiled in a fight for survival. Finding an unarmed, abandoned Tiger Moth skiplane, they took to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

LETHAL ATTRACTION

Issue Number: 4795
Lethal Attraction

It seemed a simple job; hop across to Belgium and find out what was causing strange magnetic field disturbances in the Ardennes region. So simple did it seem, that the Convict Commandos thought they might have time for a bit of relaxation along the way. Trouble, though, followed Britain’s most dangerous special missions unit like […]