G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero [25th Anniversary Action Figure Reprint Series] #1

(June 1982 [Original Release Date])

Operation: Lady Doomsday (Table of Contents: 1)

G.I. Joe / comic story / 28 pages (report information)

Script

Larry Hama (credited)

Pencils

Herb Trimpe (credited)

Inks

Bob McLeod (credited)

Colors

Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)

Letters

Jim Novak (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Quartered in top-secret armored underground bunkers...

Genre

adventure; military

Characters

G.I. Joe [Hawk [Clayton Abernathy] (first appearance); Snake-Eyes (first appearance); Scarlett (first appearance); Breaker (first appearance); Flash (first appearance); Grunt (first appearance); Stalker (first appearance); Short-Fuse (first appearance); Grand Slam [also as Grand-Slam; James Barney] (first appearance); Zap [Rafael Melendez] (first appearance); Rock 'N Roll [Craig McConnel] (first appearance); Steeler [Ralph Pulaski] (first appearance); Clutch [Lance Steinberg] (first appearance); Shooter (cameo, named only, first appearance)]; General Flagg (first appearance); General Austin (first appearance); Doctor Adele Burkhart (first appearance); Cobra [Cobra Commander (first appearance); Baroness (first appearance); Gregor (first appearance)]

Synopsis

Cobra has captured a prominent nuclear physicist, and the G.I. Joe team is formed to get her back.

Reprints

• from G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero (Marvel, 1982 series) #1 (June 1982)

Indexer Notes

Joe character Shooter named as in-house joke for then-EIC Jim Shooter, but later made into real Joe by writer/creator Larry Hama in G.I. Joe Declassified (Devil's Due Publishing, 2006 series) #'s 1-3.