War comic Commando celebrates 50th birthday
Commando comic, owned by Dundee based DC Thomson’s, is to celebrate its 50th anniversary on 27 June.
The war comic publishes two new and two classic issues each fortnight, and launched an iPohne and iPad app earlier this year.
Commando has retained the same look that it had when the war comic began, but the stories have moved with the times. In the past, many of the writers and artists of the comic were veterans, and recent research commissioned by D.C. Thomson has shown that around 55% of Commando readers are either Armed Forces veterans or have a veteran in their family.
Calum Laird, editor of Commando since 2007, said: “As someone who read Commando in the 60s and 70s, worked on the title as a junior member of staff in the 80s and 90s, and became editor in the 2000s, sitting in the hot seat for the 50th birthday is a great honour.
“Over the years, Commando Editors have had messages of support from service personnel throughout the world. It’s a tribute to everybody who puts Commando together that the tradition has carried on to the present day. If we can keep them happy with military tales, we’ve got to be doing it right!”