G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero #119 [Newsstand]

(December 1991)

Double Trouble (Table of Contents: 1)

G.I. Joe / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Herb Trimpe (credited)

Pencils

Herb Trimpe (credited)

Inks

Herb Trimpe (credited)

Colors

Herb Trimpe (credited)

Letters

Rick Parker (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

A Soviet Be-12 Amphibian,

Genre

war; military

Characters

G.I. Joe [Snake-Eyes; Hawk; Scarlett; Storm Shadow; Wild Bill; Ghost Rider (mentioned as 'stealth pilot')]; Cobra [Cobra Commander; Viper troopers; E.C.H.O. [Enhanced Copy, Human Original] robots of various then-current world leaders and famous persons; loadmaster (only appearance; killed)]; airfield owner; U.S. government agents undercover

Synopsis

Snake-Eyes, Scarlett, and Storm Shadow are sent by Hawk on a recon mission to find out about Cobra's latest scheme to replace famous people with robot duplicates, after an airfield owner, renting his field out to Cobra covertly, accidentally finds a crate with an exact duplicate of Pres. Bush Sr. inside. Cobra Commander watches the Joes' mission play out in the housing complex as they fight their robot counterparts. The scheme is foiled when both the housing and assembly complexes are found by the Joes and destroyed separately.

Reprints

• in Classic G.I. Joe TPB (IDW, 2009 series) #12 (July 2011)

Indexer Notes

First non-Hama written issue done completely by Herb Trimpe, except for lettering.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Postbox: The Pit! / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

Genre

war

Indexer Notes

Letters from Alan Collins, Christopher Langston, Bryan Sevier, Howard Muncy and Justin Maradiegue.

One letter asks the question of, if besides Billy and Zartan, did anyone else escape the freighter trap from issue #98, like Mindbender or Firefly. The answer was given as only 3 escapees total (the third revealed in issue #'s 124-126), but that would later be changed to 4 (issue 139), as the fourth was revealed in that issue during the Joe/Gen. 2 Transformers storyline (#'s 139-142).