started watching gi joe last week and im predictable soooo
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This started out as an idea for what a FINDING DEE action figure would look like in the strip, and artistically, the further along I went, the crazier the mock-up packaging became. I am NO Hector Garrido, who did a huge chunk of that amazing G.I.Joe package art, but I tried to match the style as much as possible.
If I get froggy, I might even try mocking up a BACK of the package eventually, and channel my inner Larry Hama with a psudo-file card. lol
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Profiles in Villainy
Cobra Commander
The fanatical leader who rules the terrorist organization known as Cobra, the enigmatic Cobra Commander demands complete loyalty and allegiance from his followers. His objective is total control of the world's governments, people, wealth, and resources, brought about by revolution and chaos.
Over the years, Cobra Commander has suffered assassination attempts, and even an imposter posing as him for a time. However, he has always managed to find a way out of every situation, having become a constant foil for the G.I. Joe Team, who have ended up fighting Cobra almost exclusively. No matter how dire or unscathed, the villain’s hatred and drive have only grown more ruthless.
There is some indication that the Commander may have heralded from a secretive offshoot of humanity located in a hidden city known as Cobra-La. An ambitious soldier, he was sent out into the world of humans so to destabilize humanity’s global defenses and ready it for conquest by the forces of Cobra-La. He ultimately failed in this regard and was punished by Cobra-La’s leader, Globulous, who transformed the Commander into a snake. Yet somehow he got better or something happened... whatever the case Cobra Commander ultimately returned as the leader of Cobra, more hysterically driven and maniacal as ever.
Actor Chris Latta provided the villain’s shrill voice in his original appearance on the animated series, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Subsequent cartoons have seen the villain voiced by actors Chris Latta, Scott McNeil, Michael Dobson, Robert Baker and others. Cobra Commander first appeared in the debut episode of G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero, airing on September 12th, 1983.
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The Bulletman, the Human Bullet action figure circa 1977. This is the British version of the G.I. Joe character, released two years after he originally appeared in the USA, and one year after Hasbro ended its original G.I. Joe line.
Palitoy was a British toy company (a subsidiary of General Mills) that licensed G.I. Joe from Hasbro for release in the United Kingdom. Palitoy rebranded the action figure line as Action Man, as G.I. Joe was a distinctly American term.
Palitoy's Action Man line for the most part originally just consisted of repackaged G.Joe figures and accessories. Around 1970 Palitoy began creating its own accessories with British themes, to distinguish Action Man from G.I. Joe.
Palitoy was the company that first introduced the flocked hair and rubber gripping hands to its Action Man figures. Hasbro liked these features so much that they added them to G.I. Joe as "life like" hair (it looked and felt like indoor/outdoor carpet) and "kung fu grip."
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Snake Eyes and Timber
Art by John Gallagher || IG
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