“Target Tomcat” is issue #5463 of the long-running British war story comic series COMMANDO, published by D.C. Thomson.
Adversary pilots Shane Whitman and Ghazi Khadem will stop at nothing to achieve air superiority over the other —proving once and for all who the best top gun flyer is!
What started out as an arrogant competition between rivals has turned into a quest for revenge and neither will stop until the other is dead.
But with both men piloting the iconic F-14 Tomcat swing-wing, this is a duel that only the swiftest will survive…
Target Tomcat‘s amazing cover art is by Keith Burns, with interior art by Vincente Alcazar.
AUTHOR’S NOTES
For this storyline, I was inspired by the thought of a “What If…?” scenario. In the 1980’s, the only two nations flying the swing-wing F-14 air superiority fighter were the USA and Iran, once former allies turned bitter adversaries. In the real world, their jets never faced off in the air – but my story pits Cat vs. Cat in the skies of the Middle East. One of the things I love about writing for Commando is getting to indulge my inner aviation geek – and “Target Tomcat” allowed me to feel the need for speed a little! I first encountered the iconic F-14 in the late 70’s as a kid when my dad and I built a certain Airfix kit…
…and of course the movie Top Gun cemented my enthusiasm for this big jet, but it was a good few years before I actually got to see one for real at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York.
The story was later reprinted in a special edition of the Finnish comics anthology Korkeajännitys (High Voltage).
GALLERY
