A new year brings many changes for Johnny Red. A new artist, a new Commissar, a new aircraft, the first multi-part 'epic', colour pages and the chance of a new start. John Cooper takes over as series artist for November 1942. Johnny's approaching birthday is making him homesick. The arrival of Major Rastivitch soon pushes these thoughts to one side. Rastovitch knows all about Johnny's past, and has a dossier that could put the Englishman in front of a firing squad. Instead, Rastovitch offers Johnny a small chance, blackmailing him into flying a stripped down and heavily armoured Mitchell B-25 Bomber back to England with a top secret cargo, Comrade Alexei Tokayev. If Johnny accepts the mission, the dossier will be destroyed, but what chance do Johnny and his co-pilots, Yakob and Vorishkin, have of completing their mission alive?

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