Commando Comic #18: 'Lone Hero' (1962)
While his 8th Army mates fought and died under the glaring desert sun of North Africa, Private Sam Deacon was content to drive a truck. Not for him the blood and guts of battle, the risk of stopping a German bullet: 'Let the other bloke be the mug,' was his motto.
Then he was met by one of the 'other blokes' who wasn't a mug - a hero who rammed those words down Deacon's throat till he squealed for mercy - and found himself a hero too...
- Gordon C. Livingstone (artist)
- Ken Barr (cover)