Commando Comic #5182 'Battling Boneshakers' (2018)
 
They were “wood-and-wire wonders”, these early aircraft of World War One – hard enough to fly, let alone fight in! To make things worse for the pilots of the newly formed Royal Flying Corps, the enemy was quick enough to perfect a gun that fired successfully through the propeller arc of their Fokker Eindeckers.
 
Men like Gus Mathieson had their work cut out to survive – even using their puny pistols until a British gun could be developed to counter the “Fokker Scourge”.
 
 Gordon C. Livingstone (artist)
 Ian Kennedy (cover)
 K.P. Mackenzie (writer)