“J-For-Judas” is issue #5273 of the long-running British war story comic series COMMANDO, published by D.C. Thomson.
Courage in the face of disaster — a famous trait of the RAF throughout World War Two. But not in the case of Johnny Bagshott!
After condemning his team to a POW camp, will the flighty young navigator work with the devious Hauptmann Hasse to betray his friends and help destroy a top British base the country would never recover from?
Can his commanding officer Flight Lieutenant Aiden Cross stop the deadly plot before it is too late?
AUTHOR’S NOTES
After successfully pitching my first COMMANDO comic story Edge of the Sky, I thought I would try my hand at something more in line with the title’s usual World War II action-adventure themes, and that story (originally titled Wings of Treachery) became J-For-Judas…
The story features an RAF Wellington bomber as a key element, and I got inspiration from two places – the first was a 1977 COMMANDO story called O-For-Orange (also about a Wellington) and an striking image I’d seen in a reference book of a captured “Wimpey” wearing enemy colours…
And so I put together a script about a doomed RAF aircrew caught behind enemy lines and a devious plot to bomb an impregnable airbase; artist Jaume Forns brought the story to life with his action-packed artwork, and the always-amazing veteran artist Ian Kennedy crafted a great cover showing the callous Hauptmann Hasse in disguise as an RAF pilot.
I also want to thank the team at the Air Museums at RAF Hendon and RAF Cosford for their help with a couple of obscure technical questions about the Wellington!
GALLERY
