Cinebook Ltd: BEAR'S TOOTH 6 - SILBERVOGEL

 

Authors: Yann & Alain Henriet
Age: 12 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 64 colour pages
Publication: January 2024

ISBN: 9781800440883 IN STOCK 

£11.99 inc. VAT

Everything is in place. The radio guidance relays are active, the Silbervogel, the intercontinental bomber, is operational, and Anna is ready to fly it to America – a suicide mission. As for Werner, he seems incapable of fulfilling his mission and killing the beautiful test pilot, in whom he still sees his childhood friend. The arrival of Soviet forces, along with the courage of a handful of prisoners and partisans, will give them both one last chance to do the right thing … Can they seize it?

Seven years ago... That's when this started. I had trouble remembering what had gone on before when it came to volume 5 so volume 1?!  Anyway, I did a deep search on CBO and it took a while since the posts were that far back Blogger will not show them in searches and here are the reviews from volumes 1-5:

2018

vol.1  https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2018/03/cinebook-9th-art-bears-tooth-1-max.html

vol.2  https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2018/10/bears-tooth-2-hanna_32.html

2019

vol. 3  https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2019/02/cinebook-9th-art-bears-tooth-3-werner.html

2023

vol. 4  https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2023/09/cinebook-ltd-bears-tooth-4-amerika.html

2024

vol. 5

https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2024/03/cinebook-ltd-bears-tooth-5-eva.html

I know what you are asking -"How did it end?" You want that big a spoiler?!  Get out of here!! Everything I would want to say about this book is covered in all the other reviews. The art is wonderful and the uniforms, vehicles and settings are all spot on as is the history where it isn't fiction (these days I find it hard to tell them apart). The artwork cannot be faulted.

And the story? Well, as you might expect there are plot twists, things happen you were not expecting and there are some very nice twists that keep you guessing. I did love the touch of a naval diver named  Crabb and if you wonder why that caught my attention then look up the mystery of  Lieutenant-Commander Lionel Kenneth Phillip Crabb, OBE, GM (28 January 1909 – presumed dead 19 April 1956), known as Buster Crabb,  a Royal Navy frogman and diver who vanished during a reconnaissance mission for MI6 around a Soviet cruiser berthed at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1956.  My past catching up with me memory-wise.

The series ended "well" you might say but it is difficult to give anything away but now that you can buy volume 1-6 completed I would recommend it. Recommended especially if you are into war comics -there are elements here of triple cross agent Zigzag -Edward Arnold Chapman and Operation Crossbow (there was a film with George Peppard based on and titled Operation Crossbow in 1965 and Christopher Plummer played Chapman in the 1966 film Triple Cross).

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