Gordon Checkley Livingstone did National Service in Germany in the early 1950s, and became a staff artist at DC Thomson, starting off drawing for girls' comics and magazines like Secrets. In 1961 editor Chick Checkley, whose mother was Livingstone's godmother, launched Commando, a 68-page war story digest comic, to compete with Fleetway's War Picture Library and Air Ace Picture Library, and Livingstone was one of the artists he recruited to work on it. His first story was "Mercy For None" in issue 4. He went on to draw over 360 issues of the title, developing a style based on thick, slashing brushstrokes reminiscent of Eric Parker, combined with fine, choppy pen lines and blocks of letratone. He also drew "The Falklands File" in Warlord. He retired in 1999. His Commando issues are still regularly reprinted.[1]
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- Babyface Bailey
- Bad Blood
- Baptism of Fire
- Battle-Carrier!
- Battle-Squad
- Battling Boneshakers
- Battling Brady
- Battling Rust Bucket!
- Beach-Head!
- Beware The Black Cats
- Beware The Werewolf!
- Big Trouble!
- Black Beret
- Black Knight's War
- Black Schneider
- Black Squadron
- Blade Of Honour
- Blind Courage
- Bowler's Bofors
- Brennan's Brigands
- Bright Blade of Courage
- Brothers At War
- Brothers In Danger
- Buccaneer Bob R.N.
- Burden Of Command
- Butterfield's Battle
- D-Day Dodgers
- Dagger For A Nazi
- Dangerous Waters
- Day of Danger
- Dead of Night
- Dead Of Night
- Death Dive
- Death Flies Fast
- Death Mission
- Death Of A U-Boat
- Desert Deception
- Desert Mystery
- Desert Raiders
- Desert Wolf
- Dice With Death
- Diggers Die Hard
- Do Or Die!
- Drive Or Die!
- Duel In The Snow
- Duel To The Death
- Dynamite Dan
- Fearless Freddy
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- The Fighting Few
- Fighting Redcap
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- Flak Fever
- Flight Of No Return
- Flight Of The Furies
- Flight To Freedom!
- Fly High, Dive Deep
- Fly Out, Walk Back!
- Fly To Freedom
- Flying High
- Fog Of Doom
- Follow The Leader!
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- Front Line Fixer
- Front-Line Fireman
- School For Spies
- Scourge of the Desert
- Scourge Of The Japs
- Sea Ace
- Sea Fury
- Sea Of Secrets
- Secret Soldier
- Shark With Wings
- Shield Of Truth
- Shock Action
- Shooting Star
- Silence The Guns!
- Sink That Tanker!
- Sitting Target
- Sky Tiger
- Soldier Of The Dragon
- Son Of The Viking
- Spear-Point
- Squadron of Doom
- Stand and Fight
- Steer For Action
- Stolen. . . One Bomber!
- Suicide Boats
- Super Spy
- Superjet