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| | Issue 23 | | Cover Date | | 17th July 1976 | | Click the cover to read | |  Money Man is in Clacton. The Sports Star of the Future is Mike Karavasik - Cycling. | | | |  Totenkopf is German for 'Dead Head', obviously a thinly veiled jibe by Gerry Finley-Day at the mentality of the SS,
unless you translate it as Death's Head, which isn't entirely correct. | |  |  | Dredger
Dredger and Breed are sent to the African Free State of Masotu to protect the life of President Amibi. Amibi once employed Dredger when he was a mercenary working in Africa. He has documents vital to the future of his country. From the moment D.I.6. arrive, there is nothing but murder and mayhem. Military leader Colonel Juba is behind a coup, and takes the president hostage. Faced with a difficult decision, Dredger shoots through Amibi to kill Juba as the president insists that the documents are worth more than his life. Juba's escape ends with a swift helicopter-based decapitation but Breed insists Dredger has gone too far by shooting Amibi. Dredger and Amibi reveal that he was already dying from a terminal illness and that Dredger had saved him from an agonising death. |  | Green's Grudge War
Green arrives at Bold's parents' country home which is close to an RAF airfield. During the night the base is attacked, and as Bold helps the fire crews put out the blaze, Green fires at the enemy aircraft from the cockpit of a Spitfire. Unfortunately the planes he shoots at are RAF fighters coming in to land. As the men return to base, Bold warns Green to smarten himself up as a new RSM has taken over. Green's scruffy turn out earns him a spell of punishment detail. Bold tells Green that he should have listened, the new RSM is his cousin. |  | Hellman of the Afrika Korps
Hellman and his new panzers are shipped out to the Eastern Front by train. Also on board are Waffen SS men from the Totenkopf Division. The train is ambushed by Russian partisans, but Hellman manages to bring one of his new Panthers to life and defeats them. Impressed by his new tanks, Hellman is hopeful for the coming conflict. |  | Blackjack
Jack fights off Perelli's men with some help from the band. His singing talent is spotted by Harry Schiff, who offers him a deal and arranges a meeting. Perelli is driving by and sees the men together. The next day he pays Schiff a visit to arrange Jack's demise. |  | Hook Jaw
Bergstrom briefs Gelder and Mason on his plan to kill Hook Jaw with a combination of compressed gas fired into his liver to unbalance him, followed by a lethal shot of cyanide. Mason has reasonable doubts as to how close someone would need to get to be successful. Hook Jaw is lured to his fate by a dummy diver filled with blood, but still manages to kill one of the dive team. Mason fires a shot of compressed air which is on target. His second shot seems to kill the shark. Bergstrom and Gelder argue about the ownership of the body when Sharkie reveals that Hook Jaw is still alive. Gelder had switched the cyanide for a tranquiliser, determined to catch the killer and earn money from him. |  | Look Out For Lefty!
Gosling arranges for two school thugs to give Lefty a kicking. As they try their worst, Angie and her friends come an unlikely rescue, bearing custard pies. Lefty is blamed for starting the incident and Gosling gives him two hours detention after school, to ensure he misses the final. |  | Death Game 1999
As Otto and Rico fight, Taggart tries to save the game by scooping the ball and throwing it down the drain. A new ball is launched, but Rico holds Otto's head in front of the cannon and Otto loses face. As the fans cheer, Rico goes berserk, annihilating the opposition with his bare hands. With four men dead, the Maniacs chicken out and forfeit the game. The fans love it, Rico loves it, and so does Smailes. With Al back in the game, he has no further use for Taggart. |  | Hell's Highway
Danny smashes through the roadblock and the truck rolls into Canada. To Steve and Danny's surprise, Heine is fleeing from US Government agents. They discuss a plan of action at a truck stop, but the truck that was following them earlier arrives, with shotguns blazing. The friends escape by knocking their pursuers off a bridge, but at the rendezvous point, Hartwell appears and kills Heine. Heine was a traitor, preparing to sell secrets to the Soviets. Hartwell wanted him out of the country before he was killed. He throws guns to Danny and Steve, just as Mayer emerges from hiding and photographs them standing over the corpse. The boys are now blackmailed into more government work. | |
