Back Cover Summary[]
Major Heinrich Keil of the Luftwaffe was an ace…and a killer. A mad, evil Nazi whose chief delight was to hunt and kill, whether he was chasing animals on the ground or British pilots in the air.
Now he was going after another British pilot but this time he was going to hunt him down in the forest…with a crossbow.
Introduction (Issue 4885)[]
One of the best things about working on Commando is uncovering fantastic stories from our archive, one that now spans 55 years.
I'd never read this tale as it was published in March 1972, two months before I was born. When I saw that the interior art was by the brilliant Cam Kennedy, whose 2000AD work I had admired in the 1980s, and then realised it was a fantastic revenge yarn anyway, I knew that we just had to let another audience discover this absolute classic, which features a truly memorable villain in Majot Heinrich Keil.
My sincere thanks to reader Roger Worsley, who suggested that we uncage The Black Eagle once again.
Scott Montgomery, Deputy Editor
Misc[]
Issue: 629
I F C: The Fighting Men: Samurai
I B C: Glasgow Rangers: Colin Jackson
4885: Published as part of the By Special Request series.