G.I. Joe Special Missions #26 [Direct]

(October 1989)

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Tengen Games / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Passing of the Guard (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

Larry Hama

Pencils

Herb Trimpe

Inks

Danny Bulanadi

Colors

Nel Yomtov

Letters

Phil Felix

First Line of Dialogue or Text

At the main gate of Voltar's base camp in Sierra Gordo...

Genre

war; military

Characters

G.I. Joe [Shockwave; Recondo; Lt. Falcon]; Oktober Guard [Col. Brekhov (leader; death); Horror Show (death); Stormavik (death); Schrage (death); Lt. Daina; Dragonsky]; El Jefe; North American Banana Monopoly (N.A.B.M.) [Delbert Swinson (representative; first appearance)]; Cobra [Iron Grenadiers [Voltar; Grenadier troopers; Wild Boar (Razorback vehicle) driver (first appearance)]]

Synopsis

While on a mission in Sierra Gordo to rescue El Jefe from Voltar's forces, three Joes encounter the Oktober Guard, and members on both sides are assaulted by Voltar's forces. During the rescue mission only two members from the Oktober Guard survive, as the other Guard members perish, and they are taken captive alongside the three Joes by the freed El Jefe, after he makes a deal with the N.A.B.M. in order to keep his presidency intact. To be continued...

Reprints

• in G.I. Joe: Special Missions (IDW, 2010 series) #4 (August 2011)

Indexer Notes

Story continues in G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero (Marvel, 1982 series) #92.

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