(September 1986)

Marvel, 1982 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.75 USD; 0.40 GBP; 0.95 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1986-05-20
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel 25th Anniversary
Editing
Bob Harras (editor); Don Daley (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #95.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

G.I. Joe / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
John Byrne
Colors
?
Genre
war; military
Characters
Dreadnoks: Buzzer [Richard Blinken-Smythe]; Ripper [Harry Nod]; Torch [Tom Winken]
Reprints
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Thunder Machine (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Larry Hama (credited)
Pencils
Rod Whigham (credited)
Inks
Andy Mushynsky (credited)
Colors
George Roussos (credited)
Letters
Joe Rosen (credited)
Genre
war; military
Characters
Dreadnoks: Buzzer [Richard Blinken-Smythe] (antagonist); Ripper [Harry Nod] (antagonist); Thrasher [Bruno LaCrosse] (antagonist) (introduction); Torch [Tom Winken] (antagonist); Zandar (antagonist) (introduction); Zarana (antagonist); Zartan (antagonist)
G.I. Joe: Alpine [Albert M. Pine] (featured); Cross-Country [Robert M. Blais] (featured) (introduction); Flint [Dashiell R. Faireborn] (featured); Hawk [Clayton M. Abernathy] (featured); Heavy Metal [Sherman R. Guderian] (featured); Roadblock [Marvin F. Hinton] (featured); Sgt. Slaughter [Robert Rudolph Remus] (featured); Shipwreck [Hector X. Delgado] (featured); Thunder [Matthew H. Breckinridge] (featured) (introduction); Tollbooth [Chuck X. Goren] (featured) (introduction); Wild Bill [William S. Hardy] (featured)
Storm Shadow [Thomas S. Arashikage]
Synopsis
Zartan's siblings, Zandar and Zarana, break him out of The Pit disguised as Lady Jaye and an interrogation specialist and go head-to-head with the Joes, succeeding. Meanwhile, General Hawk has an important meeting in Washington at the Pentagon to attend dealing with the Springfield incident last issue.
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Indexer Notes

Thunder and Tollbooth were introduced late into the comic series for some reason, given they already existed as toys for the 1984 and 1985 toyline series respectively.

Stan Lee to Attend Summer Conventions! (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
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
war

Indexer Notes

Letters from Larry Brown, Kort Nicholauson, Dawn Bantel, Doug Kline, Neil P., Scott Hurla.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    G.I. Joe
  2. 1. Thunder Machine
    G.I. Joe
  3. 2. Stan Lee to Attend Summer Conventions!
    Bullpen Bulletins
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Postbox: The Pit!
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  • Derek Reinhard
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