Commando Comic #1299: 'Black Zero' (1979)
 
Out of the sun it came, a jet-black Zero with a large golden dragon emblazoned on it's side. And at the controls sat Captain Jirai Saito, cruel and deadly, a top Jap ace who'd become king of the pacific skies.
 
He and his squadron had made their name by shooting down clumsy P-40 fighters, but the time for a show-down was at hand. Winging it's way from Europe was a squadron of sleek Spitfires that had left the Luftwaffe in tatters. The stage was set for the greatest air battles the Eastern skies had ever known.
 
Story by Peter Newark
Art by J. M. Jorge
Cover by Ian Kennedy