The Combative History of GI Joe: A Real American Hero - The Cartoon, The Toys and The Comic Books
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When Hasbro launched the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline in 1982 alongside the Marvel Comics series, it commissioned Marvel Productions to produce a series of fully animated 30-second television commercials which were broadcast in order to promote the toys and comics, beginning with an ad for the first issue that aired throughout the Spring of 1982. The popularity of these commercials led to the production of a five-part G.I. Joe mini-series which aired in 1983 and eventually to a syndicated animated show that ran for 95 episodes.
The production was not without it's problems.
The cartoon, the action figures and the comic books all working together in a first of its kind effort to resurrect a property that had been dormant for a number of years.
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Larry Hama doesn't get enough credit for creating much of the Joe mythos. From the comics to the file cards, he gave the Joes life. Not to mention his comics were WAY more violent, which i loved as a kid
Hama is a veteran too..
The UK comics are even more violent, characters getting killed off left and right!
Thank you! Came here to say that.
He made a licensed comic one of Marvel's top books of the 80's. Think about that for a second.
True STORY!! Larry Hama to me is the soul of GI JOE.
The 80s produced some of the most iconic heroes and villains hands down. From Cobra Commander to the Mighty Megatron and countless others
No list is a real list without starscream
And the biggest villainous tag team in the history of the multiverse, the United States and the USSR. Both intent on destroying everyone and everything else for their own selfish amusement.
You forgot about Skeletor
The 1980s got really cool stuff unlike the 21st century just gone nothing compare to the old generation.
I remember the fact that the G. I. Joes had WAY more articulation AND had amazing accessories, made the Star Wars line look kindergartener- like. I also remember that the “Hooded” Cobra Commander was a box top you sent away for, and 8-12 weeks for delivery was like a dozen lifetimes!
Coming straight after Star Wars figures, the fact that the Joes had elbows and knees made them an easy sell.
Soooooo much more articulation!
No ankles tho 😢 but joes blew away 5 POA for sure.
.....and when "swivel arm battle grip" entered the fray!!!!!!!!.............the Pinnacle of action figures,... until Cops that is. PEACE family.
What's really sad is that Star Wars got their figures some articulation in the early 2000s and then took it away again when episode 7 hit.
Yeah! But my GI Joe always broke around the waist,
The intro sequence for GI Joe the Movie is my favorite piece of 80s toycentric animation. It exemplifies that "much higher quality animation opening than the show itself" vibe.
Andrew Giglio it’s the best part of the movie!
@@russellharrell2747 Nope, Pythona's break-in to the Terror Drome was the best part of the movie =D. But the opening is awesome.
Cobra.....CoBRAAAA!
Cobra.....CoBRAAAAA!
I'm partial to the entire Lovecraftian backstory for Cobra-la etc. I always wished the remaining human Cobra agents after learning the spore plan would have sided with the Joes.
It always seemed weird Baroness, Destro et al wouldn't mind living in a post apocalyptic wasteland of mutants.
@@andrewgiglio yeah, I agree. The rank and file might have thrown in with Cobra-La, but I don't see anyone with rank making that decision.
GI Joe helped me survive an encounter with an angry stray dog when I was a kid. Thanks, Joes!
It helped me survive an encounter with an angry pork chop sandwich - but that was much later.
And because knowing is half the battle.
Akai Seigo and the other half is extreme violence
Me too.
And knowing is half the battle LOL
I had the privilege of writing a few of the file cards with Brandon Jerwa in the 2000s.. it was a great experience & made me realize just how creative Hama was with each character. I wrote a handful and each took me hours of research and editing. Hama wrote hundred(s) and managed to make them each unique. Humbling.
Hama was in the Army, so he knew a lot of what he was talking about.
Yup. Me too.
We wrote new cards for new characters. There were quite a few new characters that came about then.. first waves of all new ones in years iirc.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing, Drew. Many of us clipped those cards out :D I kept mine in a plastic rolodex box.
I'm 48. You just brought back a lot of memories and nostalgia for me with this video. Made me feel like a kid for 20 minutes. Thanks for that. Took an otherwise ho-hum day and ended it as a real treat! Keep up the great work.
You're 51 now 😆
I grew up in that decade and gonna rewatching that series on Tubi. It’s still very entertaining to this very day. 😊 Plus I’m already 42. 😅
When people say comics aren't art, I show them GI Joe #21 Silent Interlude.
A classic!
it and the "dogfight" issue with Wild Wessel and Ace were my favourite two issues I think.
@@jakeaaron Yes. Silent Interlude tends to overshadow this masterpiece (issue #34)
It was brilliant!
is this something you can read as a stand-alone?
Maybe, but unlike other comics, these GI Joes, Transformers etc. were done because of toys would be sold that way. It was commercial scheme to make action figures popular and sell them. That's why you have so many different characters in GI Joe and their names are mentioned in many comics. There are those myth building, character introduction and then actual story issues.
You know, those 30 second PSAs at the end of every episode... whoever's idea that was, they were a genius. I remember almost all of them, and I'm 40 now... I still think about them, to this day. They *really* worked. Good job, 80's corporate dude.
I remember one of the PDA about how to stop a bloody nose. Fast forward several years later my dad had a bloody nose. I remember the steps from that PDA and stopped dad's bloddy nose
I came along too late for those PSAs. I'm basically watching the series on Tubi... Minus those PSAs. Wish I could see those...
My favorite G. I. Joe episode was the one with the window washer.😊
I am the 'viper'
These days, Hasbro along with Paramount has no idea how to incorporate G.I. Joe to today's audience.
They did a comic last year, think it was called First Strike. It combined the Joes and M.A.S.K. I'd definitely check out a new animated series that did the same as long as it was along the lines of GI Joe Resolute. I'd see a live action version too.
That's because Hasbro is trying to sell Army men in an emasculated world.
@@corneilusmcgillicuddy you mean like how grown men are obsessed with toys? And can’t move on from their childhood?
@@nohomers100 Fuck are you talking about?
Marvel/Disney should get the rights and do a animated series or even a live action film 💰💰💰💰 to be made for sure.
Things the G.I. Joe cartoon was about:
Super science weapons, red & blue lasers, public service announcements.
Things the G.I. Joe comics were about: PTSD, survivor guilt, espionage, betrayal, radicalizing the disenfranchised and the politics of the military industrial complex.
Clearly nobody at Hasbro was actually reading the comics.
Talk about extreme opposites huh? Wow
Which is why even as a kid I loved the comic so much more. ....also Cobra Commander was literally a used car salesman! Perfect. Thank you Larry Hama!
Jake Aaron He was more a soap/Multilevel Marketing salesman, and you should thank Jim Shooter, who hired Larry Hama
Thanks Shipwreck! Now we know!
We would get that stuff in about twenty years...
Growing up in Flatbush, Brooklyn G. I. Joe was avenue to escape the world that was outside. I always saw myself as a Soldier and actually am getting ready to retire after 23 years. I thank everyone involved with G.I. Joe to help motivate me to be a Soldier.
In my day, when the Joes fought COBRA, the battles always ended up in a complete loss of both armies. It would always come down to my favorite Joe (Usually Flint or Snake-Eyes depending on the day) versus my favorite COBRA (Usually Firefly or Zartan, depending on the day) and the Joe would always have to sacrifice his life to stop the villain. Proving that even in my youth I knew the futility of war and it's costs and consequences. (that last line is just B.S. to make me sound prescient & cool, I just liked big bad-ass battles)
Paul Dozier haha! Dude every battle came down to hand to hand combat between two of my favorites. Beachhead/flint/roadblock vs firefly/destro/stormshadow. Ahhhh good times.
For me, it was a TV sitcom where everybody was just playing laser tag because laser guns don't work in real life. They are running around going pew pew pew and then they go get drunk. Shipwreck was somehow always finding a way to slip a roofie into Scarlett's drink every time, and each show would end with Scarlett waking up and going "Aww that sonnova..." and Shipwreck was smiling.
When I was playing with my Joes, it was always more like the comics. No super-outlandish mega weapons in my world (bye, bye MASS Device). It was more like the comic and it was deadly. 25-50% casualities during a mission on both sides at a minimum with whomever was losing getting hit harder.
My old Joes would die quite horribly (years after getting them). Dismemberment, burnt, nailed, crushed. You name it. And then sometimes, some would be put back together to create a creature or zombie. No wonder I became addicted to horror movies in my teen years.
Paul Dozier Flint and Snake Eyes are my favorite Joes too!
I can't believe there hasn't been a 'Call of Duty-like" game developed featuring GI Joe vs. Cobra.
Gijoe...Heman..Shera..Jem..Gummi Bears..Transormers...Thundercats..TMNT... These ruled my childhood and still bring me joy!
Good start on your list, but how could you leave out M.A.S.K., Spiral Zone, Voltron, and Robotech!?
@@joelsteverson trust me I was gonna go through mask, inhumanoids, Rocklords, gobots, and much more. I was even going to dip into 90s like Thailog, Baron Darkk, Megabyte..etc but the list would be long!
The first half of the '80s produced a lot of "super brands"! The cross marketing back then was second to none!
There were also quite a bit of quality kid's properties that were overlooked; Starriors, Power Lords, SilverHawks, the Mighty Orbots, Centurions and Bionic Six come to mind!
@@MrJon76 sectaurs were another but your absolutely right!
@@LowellLucasJr. You mean "Sectaurs"? I never liked that one! I'd replace it with Visionaries on the most criminally underrated and overlooked list!
YO JOE!! I've been a BIG fan of G.I.Joe. My favorite characters were Duke, Roadblock, Shipwreck and Flint. I also loved the rivalry between the Marine Leatherneck and the Navy SEAL Wet Suit. Always poking fun at each other. My favorite of the miniseries are the original with the MASS Device and "Arise, Serpentor! Arise!" As a kid I never realized how well Destro had his act together compared to the other villains, but if HE'd been running Cobra, like he WANTED to, the world would be his within a week.
"Knowing is half the battle" is our generations "because Stone Cold said so"
Scarlett, Lady Jaye and Cover Girl were my Joe's I looked up to... And admittingly, still do!
The Baroness of Cobra is very attractive as well. 😊
I remember a G.I. JOE father's day special on the HUB channel in 2011. Back to back hours of class G.I. JOE with the Retaliation series from 2010. For dads and their sons.
Reminds me of watching the james bond marathons on thanksgiving with my dad as a kid.
That's dope!
Caboose 92m I remember that around mid-2000s...I think...
The greatest episode of GI Joe is "The Viper is Coming", change my mind.
My favorite is the one where Cobra almost goes bankrupt.
"I am the viper. I've come to vipe the vidows." That was my favorite episode as a kid.
The greatest episode is 'The Gamemaster'. Not only does it have Lady Jaye stripping down to her bra in a changing room, but later she has a hair pulling catfight with a bikini-clad Baroness!.....Mind changed??
For me was the weird storytelling episode with smaller version of Joe's and the Shipwrecked episode where he's being brainwashed by Cobra, he's married and retired
"$5.75 an hour" (hello, inflation!. "I start on Vest corner. Top floor first".
G.I. Joe comic was my entry into comic collecting. I had picked up issues here and there of other comics but Joe was the first I HAD to subscribe to. When they offered a half of subscription when you subscribe to another, I also picked up X-Men. Larry Hama was my rabbit, leading me down a rabbit hole from which I have yet to exit.
Me too. Never cared about comics till Joe came along. I was hooked. My mom worked me like a Hebrew slave for 75 cents and I would literally run to circle k or 7 eleven.
Mine too. G. I. JOE is what brought me to this fanboy shit.
When I was kid I didn't have many figures but smart parents bought me GI Joe Colorform and I had several awesome adventures with those beautiful reusable stickers!
Seeing the vintage ARAH toys next to the vintage Star Wars toys on a shelf in the 1980s was like comparing night to day. Kenner tended to use either photos of the toys or grainy production photos/stills while Hasbro gave every figure, vehicle, and playset its own original painted art surrounded by an eye-catching red, yellow, and black explosion, with the characters standing in a pose that the action figures were almost articulate enough to mimic.
I was one of those kids that this was about. In 1982-1983, me and my friends were obsessed by GI Joe in elementary school. It was all about the comics and the toys. Destro and Stormshadow were always my favorites and I loved the power struggle within Cobra that was always present in the comic books. From here, we all graduated to other Marvel books such as X-Men, Avengers, etc. Great stuff!
I love those figures. And to a lesser extent, the 80's animated series. I started reading the comics during the Bloylock-led era, and couldn't believe how much more I like the comics than the classic show. I'm a big fan of character-driven comics, and the Blaylock comics were much more grounded in plausible reality. Stories like "Snake-Eyes: Declassified", "Sins of the Mother", "WWIII", and "the Cabal" are still some of my favorite GI Joe stories in general. I think that the closest GI Joe story is GI Joe Renegades. There were guest characters from all throughout the franchise history, and with stories that could sometimes be astoundingly twisted. Like Destro kidnapping veterans from a VA hospital, experimenting on them, disposing of those who didn't survive, and turning the survivors into bioweapons to be sold to Cobra.
I still remember my local fox channel showing the Serpentor movie on a Saturday afternoon and feeling like it was the biggest event ever. I wish I still had the VHS tape I used to record it.
GI Joe needs to make a comeback with a new animated series!
I loved GI Joe the cartoon. I wasn't allowed to read comics so I wasn't able to follow as faithfully as the cartoon (I had read my classmate's comics when I could). Sunbow was my Joe. When DIC started their run, I checked out. I tried watching the first few episodes but I couldn't get into it. Thanks for the memories. I really miss GI Joe and Transformers.
GI JOE was an after school favorite, this and the TRANSFORMERS. (the memories), I even collected the comic book for a while, the comic was a lot grittier and after reading a lot of comments some people prefer the comic over the cartoon..., not me, I loved the cartoon.
Dan a real American Toy Connoisseur.....it just rolls of the tongue
All I will say is that the Classic RUclips Parody of the GI Joe PSAs was literally my freshman year of college in my dorm with my friends. That and Powerthirst.
Knowing is half the battle. The rest is 25% red lasers and 25% blue lasers.
G.I. Joe the Movie's opening title sequence is the apex of 80's kid's toy cartoons.
As a pre-teen I found a comic "Action Force" that I absolutely loved, alongside X-Men and such. Then I didn't even know that the original name was G.I Joe, or that there were toys and a cartoon. It was in Finland in the 80s, no cable tv, no internet, and I was "too old for toys". Also, a girl.
I remember being impressed by the amount of articulation in the '80s Joes.
Hey Dan, I saw the GI JOE 1987 Movie in theaters in 1987 at the "Grand Lake Theater" at Lake Merritt in Oakland California. Everyone says it wasn't in theaters, its simply not true.
I seen it also.
It wasn't in theaters nationwide as originally planned. The backlash over Prime's death caused that. It also altered Duke's planned death.
You were lucky to see it on the big screen.
Larry Hama deserves all respect for making G.I. Joe ARAH what it is. Besides G.I. Joe comic books written by him were far better than either version of cartoon.
Marvel's ARAH was just fantastic. Washed up car salesman Cobra Commander > exiled snake guy scientist, and all the Fred Crimson Guard sleeper agents.
GI Joe Resolute was pretty good. Too bad it did not become a series.
@@Gruntvc Resolute was written by Warren Ellis, an excellent comic book writer. Wish we could get more like that series.
@nthnpark0 I hope you're wrong.
I was a G.I. JOE junkie as a kid, preferring the "realism" of the comic to the watered-down cartoon. That being said, I still get chills when I hear that theme song even in my mid-forties.
GI: Joe not having a good track record? Sounds like the perfectly over-funded government organization to me. Gags aside I LOVED those 1st two mini series. Revenge of Cobra with that heavy water element and ocean snakes in those columns was AMAZING! Love these types of episodes Dan, keep's coming.
This series changed, saved and made my life worth living. My G.I. Joes got me through the worst parts of my life, and were a part of the best parts of my life YO, JOE‼️
Christmas 1982 was good to me. I got my first round of Joe's, I got into the comic in 83 with issue #12...and got a WHALE Christmas of 84....never got that USS Flagg though.
As a kid, the articulation is what truly sold me on GiJoe.
Another fantastic episode, this time around THE toy of my childhood. I connected so many Joe's and their plastic additions, though on my side of the pond it was called Action Force: International Heroes, so I squeed loudly with that reference in the epilogue! Y'all are the best!
10:22 If I remember correctly, COBRA wanted Alexander the Great's DNA, but the Joes actually stopped them from getting it, so they had to use Napoleon's DNA instead, which resulted in Serpentor's short temper.
I miss my toys. The adults my time destroyed my toys. They had no idea of their value to me.
By far my favorite toys to play with growing up! My parents got me The USS Flagg for Xmas in 1988 and it blew my mind with all the battles I could have on that monster!! Along with receiving the Gameboy for Xmas the very next year in ‘89, best gifts of my entire childhood……and brings back great family memories.
Knowing how fortunate I was looking back, is half the battle! Great video, love the channel, thank you!
Glad Dan mentioned Shogun Warriors and Micronauts. My gateway drugs to GI Joe.
Transformers is still around, why is Hasbro letting this Cash cow flounder again? I have a son who loves the GI Joe cartoon that you can find on Tubi but obviously finding the toys are difficult at best .
Chris Latta would forever seal my love of Cobra for all time! Now lets go conquer the world! Also Charlie Adler was a fantastic Cobra Commander as well!
Fun fact: Charlie Adler also voiced low-light on the original cartoon.
@@jakeproven256 makes since! He was in transformers, Heman , Shera and Bravestarr! Your gonna laugh when u see his role in the latter!
@@tylergarrett7572 too true! Charlie= Live action while Chris = G1! Both great Starscreams!
@@tylergarrett7572 i loved it. Charlie Adler was in it too! Many of these great actors were in dozens of projects I couldn't help but enjoy!
Give us 6 inch Classic G.I. JOE action figures NOW ALREADY HASBRO!!!! Sheesh!!!
I just commented the same thing man lets start this now
We need Dawn Moreno Snake Eyes, Throwdown Snake Eyes, the mysterious female Storm Shadow form the Hasbro Universe, Helix, and so many more.
Sebastian Orduz O uh...no.
@@44HardCase Whatever. To each their own.
Imo the 3 3/4 inch scale as one advantage vehicles and playset.. have you seen the 6 inch tie fighter you need a mansion to display it
The Larry Hama Marvel GI Joe ARAH comic was hands down one of the best comic books of the 80's. The cartoon hasn't held up that well today, but the comic has. I re-read the whole thing a couple of years ago I still recommend it.
I really dig the origin of Cobra in GI Joe. Wacky, yet somehow relatively realistic to a point.
The animated movie fantastical toxic poisoning origin of Cobra Comander, yes; the unimposing, disgruntled used car salesman turned terrorist leader of the comic book origin, no.
@@wigsvisaggio7741 bro, the pyramid scemeing car salesman story is amazing. I don't really care for Cobra Commander being some weird alien guy.
GI Joe Yearbooks were not a new series, they were the equivalent of comic book annuals, meaning they were a special extra issue of the regular series with extra pages. I was the prefect age for GI Joe, great memories. And the comic book was really great.
I watched GI JOE A Real American Hero, when I was a kid, plus, I collected, and played with several of the figures, and vehicles, as well.
"Action Force knock-off" Genuine LOL! Love it!
Us Brits loved Action Man, and had no idea who this "Joe" was.
i can recall when the gijoe animated mini series was first broadcast . i considered it the single greatest tv event of all time.
About that scene where they pull the snake staff out of Duke's heart; I guess GI Joe never did a PSA on why you SHOULDNT remove an impaled object from a person lol
Have you guys covered the FCC de-regulation during the 1980s that allowed for these types of shows that were just toy ads? Genuinely interested, love your stuff.
I agree, that's a must!
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I grew up in the best era of TV, the 80's. G.I. Joe, Thundercats, Silverhawks, Voltron, G-Force, He Man, Transformers, Duck Tales, Gummi Bears, Turbo Teen, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, C.O.P.S., Double Dragon, I can keep going. Weekdays before school, after school and weekend mornings were the best during the 80's and 90's if you were a kid.
I would still watch G.I.JOE today if they were still making cartoons... Honestly, my favorite cartoon series of all time!
Nothing about GI Joe: Resolute? That took it to a very grown up level
Thank you dan and co. For giving us this video. As a huge GI joe fan I appreciate it deeply. You guys are the best
After the last few videos, I was expecting to find Dan dressed as Snakeeyes. :)
"triangle of life: comic books, cartoons and action figures" Dan ephitomes vol lV.
You give me the answer.
12:28 - DUDE. WHY!?
I love your random sound edits. They either highlight the ridiculousness of the scene or make you realize 'Oh shit, that was pretty fatal."
I've always been amazed by their animation, so detailed and precise and oddly familiar, then I found out it was all animated by toei and I was surprised, who now is more known for the db series which I love, and I began to see the connection and resemblance... one thing that baffles me though is why didn't sunbow and marvel give credit where it was do? Not one mention of toei in the credits, and not one single japanese name in the credits, what the hell? that's messed up, was it in the contract? to essentially just be ghost animators? was it hogging all the credit cuz they can, was it a layover from ww2 40 years later of disrespect to the japanese? These questions need to be answered, I was hoping u would go into detail about it, but instead u just glossed over it like "oh and btw the animation was outsourced to japan" come on man, be more thorough than that, do some research
Most of my family is military, retired and active duty. G.I. Joe was HUGE with me and my brothers growing up. We had Sooo many G.I. Joe action figures, vehicles, and playsets. And we loved watching the show. Those were some fun times, I tell ya.
I have no reason to share this on FB except that I want to see your channel grow. Good luck Dan and crew! Love your channel.
Oh, the Chuckles gag was a GREAT conclusion. Touché!
I got the battery powered tank for my birthday in the early 80's and the obsession was on. I have the entire run of comics and would stay up all night on Friday's as a kid so i wouldn't miss the cartoon the was played at 6:30am in my area i even rented the dvds from Netflix about 10 years ago and watched the with my grandmother of all people. She seemed to enjoy them or at least spending the time with her grandson. Needless to say GI joe holds a special place in my heart and is my favorite toy line of all time.
Great, now I am hungry for a pork chop sandwich.
And a body massage
Give 'im the stick!
lol
@@philleclerc4283DON'T GIVE HIM THE STICK
30 years ago, I never would have imagined a gravelly-voiced dude reminiscing “This was your life: years 1982 - 1989”, but here we are.
Cobra-La destroyed GI Joe's continuity. I loved both the comic and cartoon but after the movie I just stuck with the comic.
Born in 1980... I was SO LUCKY!! Man, you couldnt have a better childhood than that!! I'll go back to those good times. FR!!! It wasnt just the Joes, it was so much of a variety of cartoons and toys, you couldnt be bored. If you did I feel sorry for you, IDK how you couldnt enjoy the fun times, I sure did!! Miss it like no other.
What boy who grew up in the 80s didn't watch G.I Joe
Quite a few boys who grew up in the 60s watched G.I.Joe. There is a reason we had kids, it gave us an excuse to watch the great cartoons long after we were supposed to have 'grown out of it'.
GI JOE is a big reason for my being the self-published author I am becoming today. Thank you so much for the walk down memory lane. I have all of the episodes in the pack you showed on screen in this video.
I see your triangle of life and raise you... A PYRAMID OF DARKNESS.
Dang though... you went there with ACTION FORCE!
My parents attic is filled with all my old GI Joe toys. From the original base to the aircraft carrier. I had just about every vehicle they made, the hovercraft and the cobra jet Rattler were my favorites.
USS Flagg was the only set I had missing from my collection. It is and will be my white whale. That's why I hoping Haslab makes it their next project. Yo Joe!
I put forward to the Unicron project. Still hoping it pulls through. :/ The modern sculpt figures were roughly $60 a piece, about 20-30 times the original 80's price... sooooo $3,300 for a new modern Flagg. Pffffffft who needs a good credit score?! Such is the price of freedom!
Let's run the numbers real fast, a to scale flag would roughly be,... so the original flag was like a long coffee table what your suggesting is a large dinner table,... that would be awesome when you think about it, a patent can even sit close to the comand deck and sound the alarm if the kids start to fight.
If you are patient and spend a lot of time on e-bay and going to yard sales, you can get most of the Flagg. I bought one, then a second. Put together the best I could from the two and sold the lessor one. I've repeated that once and have a 98% complete Flagg, minus a box. It's a big pain-in-the-ass, but worth it... And you might even get lucky and keep the cost lower than you planned. Now, if only I had somewhere to put it ☹️
That's the way to go. As @William Sorrells says, a Haslab version would be even bigger and probably cost over $3K before shipping.
I had the USS Flag, so many great memories of Cobra trying to take over the the carrier, or invading a cliff stronghold (my bed). It was a time when kids would use their imagination to play. Now they just mash buttons on a controller.
one scene that struck me in my childhood days is when Cobra came out from a large eyeball that sprouted from a pond/lake.
Saturday Morning cartoons are the best genre for characters, animations, styles, voice acting especially famous actors, too. G.I. Joe will always be a Real American Hero of our childhoods. 😊
Cobra commander was in an episode of Transformers
ADAM OF GREYSKULL yep his name was “Old snake” in the Transformers season 3 episode “Only human”.
HARDCASE44 what about Flint’s and Lady Jaye’s daughter and old man flint himself showing up in the far off year of 2006?
Russell Harrell yeah that happened in a good episode with their daughter Marissa Faireborn, and a Quintesson illusion of her dad (Flint).
@@44HardCase Which episode of Transformers was that?
CapitanJusticia it was episode 6 of the 3rd season called “ The Killing Jar”.
I was about 6 years old and I got a GI Joe comic featuring my favorite hero, Hawk. At the end of the issue, he was shot WITH ACTUAL BULLETS six times in the stomach. I was traumatized!!
Never saw what happened after that until a year ago. My wife bought some random comics on Facebook and the second part of the story was amongst the issues. Crazy odds!
As a collector of the comic as a kid, I always found the cartoon disappointing and without consequences. Larry Hama's stories stuck with me more than any of the cartoons.
Agreed
I think it's issue 18 or 19 when *SPOILERS* Cobra attacks the Pitt and Kwinn dies. That was the point for me where I knew I would always consider the comic version the superior form of storytelling.
What pissed me off the most about the cartoon is that they made Spirit Storm Shadow's rival instead of Snake Eyes...
@@joelsteverson That was issue 19.
I still remember quotes and moments from the comic books. Like when a handful of Joes are captured in Russia and sent to a gulag. Stalker helps a prisoner on the train to the camp and is asked why, when it is of no benefit to him. Stalker says, 'You know who gives money to the homeless? Poor people. They're close enough to the edge that they can see the drop.'
The GIJoe comic was my gateway into collecting...my first was the one where cobra commander was being held by the joes within a tempory fortress in a snowy landscape, only to be later rescued by storm shadow.
I was waiting for a joke with the Fensler Films GI Joe PSAs and I was not disappointed.
Give him the stick. DON'T GIVE HIM THE STICK!
G.i. Joe was everything in my childhood! Interestingly though, I got tired of the cartoons and being Dominican didn’t even know the comic book existed, but those toys was all I needed and all I will ever need. YOOOOO JOOOOEEEE
The comics were better than the cartoon. Actual bullets and death.
Growing up in the early 80s, this is golden info!
The G.I.Joe cereal was grrrrrrrrrrrr oss
It ain't cereals if its only sugar.
Further proof that the mid-80s gave us the best entertainment in the history of our planet.
For me, the comic was canon for GI*JOE. But for Transformers, it was the cartoon.
Right? The Transformers comics storylines were just, weird. Shockwave being an independent and trying to kill all the bots, some girl caught in a crossfire between the As and Ds gaining electricity controlling powers and waging war on them all. Bizarre. I remember an issue of GI Joe where they infiltrated and brought down an extremist militia group, who was not COBRA, and had some sort of mass terror act planned. That wasn't too far away from reality.
Agreed. Loved both the Hama comic lines and the Joe toons, but the comic was the real thing. Transformers was just the toon to me.
I was the opposite; the toys and file card info combined with the cartoon were canon for me, the comics were an occasional read.
The comic that taught little Jan how to read, and the TV series that drove her batty by having Duke and Scarlet be a thing when everyone knew she was with Snake Eyes. And all those years later I still have all my Joes.
“...And knowing is half the battle.”
“...and knowing is half the battle.”
“...and knowing is half the battle.”
“OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”
Holy shit, I almost pissed myself. Brilliant, thank you so much for that, my day is so much better for that.
Caleb Murphy thanks, Snowjob
G.I. Joe Yearbook was not a new series like Special Missions, it was what G.I. Joe called the Annual issue that all major Marvel Comic Book series released once a year at the time. So it was just a part of the main series with separate numbering. Four Yearbooks were published each Feb/March between 1985-88.
I watched the cartoon as a kid. But I preferred the comics. I thought the story and action of the comics was better than the show.
I'm also in the small minority of fans that actually liked the spinoff/successor show, GI Joe Extreme.
GI Joe toys and comics took a huge portion of my birthday and Christmas money from 82 to 86 or so. I can't remember if I started with the comics or toys, but my first two toys were the original VAMP & Clutch, and the Hooded Cobra Commander mail away set with the cardboard missile complex. I also remember being aware, even at that age, the writing in the comics was waaaay better than the cartoons, but I loved it all. Thanks for the memories, Dan. Yo Joe!
And Knowing is Half The Battle!!!