To me this is the one true G.I. Joe continuity. The cartoon is fun and all but it was just an action cartoon. The G.I. Joe Comics under Larry Hama is a Soap Opera. It has the character beats off of each other. The family dynamic between Joes. The will they won't they with Snake Eyes and Scarlett. The inner struggles of our characters on both sides. The love story between Destro and The Baroness. The romance between Flint and Lady Jaye (I know that was in the cartoon too). All of this is as Soapy as Days of Our Lives.

I just love that Cobra Commander is an angry former used car salesman

GI Joe was the best Marvel comic ever. My favorite. And this is the funnest, best breakdown of the series ever. So glad I watched this - subscribed lol

My favorite GIJoe run of all time in comics Marvel did an amazing job with the franchise. GIJoe is my obsession and so glad to see someone went through the Marvel series on KZfaq it's a real delight introducing people to one of the most enjoyable comics of my youth.

I chuckled a bit when you said that Cobra Commander is just like he is in the cartoon. There's one major difference: the comicbook version isn't an incompetent nitwit.

Another good comic with Larry Hama involved is "the Nam"

This is honestly great. I love seeing someone else experience something from my childhood.

My brothers and I started collecting these G.I. Joe comics here in Australia around 1990, and sometime last year I finally completed the collection. I sat down to read the entire run, in order, earlier this year, but called it quits at about 135. The ninja storylines had become tediously dominant, with many great characters almost completely neglected. The comics (and especially the toy line) took a serious turn for the worse after 1991/92, so it's no surprise that both were canned in '94. There are some good issues towards the end, and the final issues are quite valuable now because of their low-print status. The toy line was clearly the highlight of the ARAH universe, surely one of the best of all time. Yo Joe!

My first issue was GI Joe #25 from 1984 and I remember Snake Eyes visiting Gung Ho in the hospital after Storm Shadow had whipped his ass. I remember Gung Ho noticing that Snake Eyes had the same tattoo as Storm Shadow. Then Snake Eyes silently leaves. Great issue and great video!

For a really long time all Marvel Comics said "Stan Lee Presents" in front of the title page of each book. This happened all the way until like the early 2000's. Even long after Stan had stopped being involved with the comics in the late 70's. So since this entire run was created by Marvel in theory GIJOE happens within the 616 Marvel Universe.

This Marvel Comics of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, ran for 12 years from 1982 to 1994, across 155 issues. During its 12 year run, it ran at the same time as Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Adventurer, Star Wars, Team America, The Transformers, The Transformers: Generation 2, Heathcliff, Heathcliff's Funhouse, Muppet Babies, Care Bears, Fraggle Rock, ThunderCats, Madballs, Masters of the Universe, Sectaurs, Bullwinkle and Rocky, Silverhawks, Air Raiders, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, Alf, Count Duckula, Police Academy, RoboCop, Mighty Mouse, Camp Candy, Barbie, Barbie Fashion, The Toxic Avenger, Toxic Crusaders, Double Dragon, Terminator 2, Captain Planet, NFL SuperPro, Pirates of Dark Water, the Bill & Ted's series, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Kid 'n Play, Defenders of Dynatron City, Hook, WCW: World Championship Wrestling, TekWar, Fish Police, Ren & Stimpy, The Meteor Man, Biker Mice From Mars, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, Beavis and Butt-head, Coneheads, No Escape, Rocko's Modern Life, and The Disney Afternoon comics on shelves.

I would have thought zartan would have been the faceless master

Reading it straight through, you realize how haphazard and disjointed the overall story is. Hama never had an overall plan. He has said many times it was just a toy commercial. Still a great series if you stick to the Snake Eyes backstory. Good job on this.

Megatron was probably injured from basically blowing himself up in the classic Transformers "Gone But Not Forgotten", where Shockwave takes advantage of Megatron's paranoia that Prime will return and manipulates him into going ballistic and basically blowing himself up. I agree with you about the cartoon being superior; the comic had a lot of great issues, but the cartoon just had so much going for it. It had the right mixture of humor, action and charm. The soundtrack, the voice-acting, all of it was great. As far as "Stan Lee Presents", that was something that was put before the title of every Marvel Comic. It might even still be. It just sort of a way of referencing and paying homage to Stan Lee and a way of making it seem like there was still a connection between Stan Lee and Marvel.

When you laugh at stuff... It makes me start laughing too 🤣🤓

This was epic. I think you should do more GI Joe next so it’s fresh in memory. TF will be a huge new undertaking and you already have the basic indoc down.

You did a good job on this. You are also very optimistic keep it up!

This was really great! Awesome job!! Yes, I agree the comic book series is overall good with a mix of great stories, lame ones and all in between. The character development is probably the best aspect mainly if you're a fan of Snake Eyes which many are. Another thing I loved was the cover artwork in many of the issues. My favorite being issue #63.

The hand signs were also in the 2010s Nick TMNT. I wish I had a link to the video, but the hand signs are used in conjunction with Buddhist words as a means of entering a meditative state to calm the mind and aid the healing process.

LOve this. thanks. I've read em all, but years ago.

I read Marvel's GI Joe and Transformers run too !!! Read the continuing IDW GI Joe A Real American Hero, its good too !!!

I have re-read issues 1-10 several times, and issue 1 probably more times than any other comic that I own. I think issues 1-60 are all pretty good -- with kind of a slow stretch somewhere around issues 25-35 where they are no longer doing stand alone issues, but the connected story isn't really going anywhere yet. Beyond issue 60 the best stuff is the things that get into Snake-Eyes back story, and especially the arc that gives the back story for Baroness and how she and Destro met. Issue 155 is a super classic. Amazing way to end the series (at the time) and well worth owning for any fan. I strongly recommend the TPB of issues 1-10, and any way you can get your hands on issue 155.

Bruhhh .... When you said simp🤣🤣🤣🤣

Nice review. It's like to read them all but some of those issues are pricey. 💸

Roadpig toy was godlike

It is surprisingly violent. One of the few places in the marvel universe that if you die? You die.

I was a comic only fan. To hell with the cartons. Why? Because of the Weather Dominator mini series. The part with Snake Eyes and Shipwreck. Snake Eyes in drag, Timber in disguise and just before helping operate the mine car. To me, they turned GI Joe into a Scooby Doo show. And Polly was Scrappy Doo. Never watched the cartoon after that. The Stories were so disjointed due to Hasbro. new vehicles and new characters had to be introduced and shown, no matter what it meant to Hama story plot lines. The GI Joe does keep going on past 155, but with a different company.

Love this!! It's so interesting to see the difference between the comic and the show. Haven't read many comics, but I always loved the old cartoon. :) Not sure what I was expecting cobra commander and Destros faces to look like... but it wasn't that. 😂 I really enjoyed this! ❤️

A movie, like a Terrorist/War-Romance, with Destro & the Baroness, might be kinda sweet, or her kinda secretly dating someone from the Joes, like only once a year, 1 day being just the human beings they might be, and after that it's fighting each other again! 😅 About the comics, I think the best 2 stories, don't know the titles, but one is Snake Eyes vs Storm Shadow in a jungle, fighting for the information of a satelite that came down, then it's Snake Eyes vs a Tiger, who goes full "The Revenant" on him, and Shadow Storm, though first leaving him, now saving him, it was very humane. And the other one is Cobra creating new landmass with Tsunami-Machines (!?), nobody took possession of it, so Cobra took it, hence Cobra Island, I guess. But before that happens the Joes fight their way in, annihilating about everything & everyone, but at the very last moment their surperios called them off, they had no political jurisdiction there. I was shocked, and impressed, the Joes won the fight, but lost the battle, because of Red Tape, politics. Back then totaly new concept for me, kinda smart, for a comic about Military Fantasy... 😬👍🏻

Love the comics until they crossed it with Transformers all the same with TFs it was great art.

Wait. They fixed Snake Eye's face? Dang...I had stopped reading right about the the time Billy was recovering from getting blown up...I switched over to Captain America and Iron Man.

I want to say that I have read 1 thru 107 or 110? I love the dr venom kwinn scarface story arc...

Transformers comic next plz

Was that music from White Bat? Sounds really familiar?

If you want the tattoo, you should look at the I-Ching and look at what it means

The ninja hand techniques are called mundras,

Kuji no in Stephen k. Hayes has a good video on it…it is sometimes called the 9 cuts

..The jokes on you, mate:)

Any plans on reading issues #155.5 - 218? Issue #155 was the last issue published by Marvel but IDW hired Larry Hama to continue the story in the same continuity. It ran until 2012. They did the same thing with Marvel's Transformer comics, too.

Regarding Stan Lee Presents:, Stan Lee was mainly a Marvel Figurehead at this point. I don't think he really had anything to do with G.I. Joe, other being Stan Lee. Great job on recapping the comic series. If you listen to podcasts, check out my podcast G.I. Joe: A Real American Headcast.

You need to read it with the Special Missions books in chronological order. So you haven't actually read the whole thing.

Cobra Commander considers his masked face to be his true identity. He has even been shown to wear the hood while sleeping. So he considers his unmasked face a "disguise"

GI Joe cartoon next plz.

what's the best way to read all of these, or where could I?

Any plans of doing reviews on each or two at a time?

Interesting review. I love the comic series, I consider it a top ten run. Although I do think it gets pretty bad at times- especially around issue 119ish or so. The Destroy Destro arc with some of the terrible toy designs. And then Firefly being a ninja too. And yes, the cheerleader/ninja strike pose. Ugh.

This might be a stupid question and also i know im 2 years "late".... but since you were kinda of new to comics and those Gi Joe comics are rare, where did you find them!?... cause im really not a comic book guy but i really like Gi Joe and i'd be interested to check a couple of them.

Ita good up until about issue 30 then it all goes downhill. Espwcially the artwork

Dude G.I. Joe is awesome! You should check out G.I. Joe the movie if you haven already.

The GI Joe fanbase can be obsure, im sure, you like Cobralalalalla.

..and i live in Germany.