Commando #4413: Revenge Of The Phantom

Commando #4413

by Alan Lomas, John Ridgway (Cover Art)

Major Gunther Stolle of the SS did not believe in ghosts -- a brutal thug like him didn't bother with such nonsense. Even when tough German troops broke and fled, gasping out tales of a phantom tank crew, he still didn't believe it. But soon he was going to know the terrible truth, for the commander of the tank had vowed to hunt him down... even from beyond the grave!

67 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 21, 2011

Reviews

[Mike Futcher · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I am too old for this sort of thing – or, at least, I ought to be – I came across a few old Commando comics in a charity shop and decided to give them a try. I'm too young for these to have been my childhood – my generation had the more interactive variant, in the form of the videogames Call of Duty and Medal of Honor: Allied Assault – but I've always been attracted to what you could label the Commando aesthetic. Boy's Own adventure in daring locations, against dastardly Nazis, with guns, grenades, U-boats and more...

Of the three I bought, Revenge of the Phantom was the first I read and, to be frank, a little disappointing. Its storyline was predictable – a ghostly British tank crew seeks revenge on the Nazis who executed them in violation of the Geneva Convention – and not deeply seeded. The characters don't charm and the supernatural element (the curse, or the ghost tank) wasn't explained. Nevertheless, for narmy fun you can't go much wrong with cartoon-villain Nazis fleeing in fear of the 'Panzergeist'...