G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero
#6
[Second Print]
(December 1982)
Marvel,
1982 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Linda Grant (credited) (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (credited) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
Most of these Second Prints came packaged in a 3 or 5 pack with other Second Prints of various G.I. Joe issues.
This issue is a variant of G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero (Marvel, 1982 series) #6 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
This issue is a variant of G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero (Marvel, 1982 series) #6 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
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To Fail is to Conquer...To Succeed is to Die!
G.I. Joe / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Herb Trimpe (credited) (plot); Larry Hama (credited) (script)
- Pencils
- Herb Trimpe (credited)
- Inks
- Jack Abel (credited)
- Colors
- Christie Scheele (credited)
- Letters
- Jim Novak (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey...
- Genre
- war; military
- Characters
- Cobra: Cobra Commander (antagonist)
G.I. Joe: Breaker [Alvin R. Kibbey] (featured); Clutch [Lance J. Steinberg] (featured); Flash [Anthony S. Gambello] (featured); Grand Slam [James J. Barney] (featured); Hawk [Clayton M. Abernathy] (featured); Scarlett [Shana O'Hara] (featured); Steeler [Ralph W. Pulaski] (featured); Zap [Rafael J. Melendez] (featured)
Oktober Guard: Colonel Brekhov [Ivan Nikolevich Brekhov] (antagonist) (introduction); Horrorshow [Stepan Drukersky] (antagonist) (introduction); Lt. Daina [Daina L. Janack] (antagonist) (introduction); Schrage (antagonist) (introduction); Stormavik (antagonist) (introduction)
Cobra Soldiers (villains) - Synopsis
- The Joes are sent in to Afghanistan to retrieve tech from a downed experimental plane when they come up against the Oktober Guard bent on the same goal. Cobra attempts to steal the equipment for themselves and runs across both teams. To be continued...
- Reprints
-
in Action Force Süper Joe (Marvel Cizgi-Roman Yayinlari, 1988 ? series) #1 -
in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Hasbro, 2005 series) #6 -
in G.I. Joe (Editions Héritage, 1982 series) #6 (Juin 1983) - in G.I. Joe Comics Magazine (Marvel, 1986 series) #3 (April 1987)
- in Super Joe (Marvel Cizgi-Roman Yayinlari, 1988 ? series) #3 (1988)
- in Tales of G.I. Joe (Marvel, 1988 series) #6 (June 1988)
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in Action Force / G.I. Joe (Egmont Kustannus, 1991 series) #4/1993 - in G.I. Joe (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (May 2002)
- in G.I. Joe: The Complete Collection (IDW, 2012 series) #1 (September 2012)
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Indexer Notes
Story concludes next issue. First Joe story to carry over into more than a single issue as the first few were self-contained stories.
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