Connect the Dots!
What better way to spend your Saturday night than doing a 90s GI Joe connect the dots? You’re welcome!
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Operation Disappearance Art
From one of the “Marvel Mighty” storybooks of the 80s comes this beautiful Earl Norem painted cover. Fortunately, the back of the book featured the clean art without the titles. Scarlett had a UPC over her face, but that’s easily fixed via Photoshop.
Read moreCaptivating Cover: Operation Thunderbolt
Operation Thunderbolt is yet another in the Find Your Sate series, a Choose Your Own Adventure uh…homage (AKA rip-off) that casts the reader in the midst of the GI Joe team. In this episode, the irascible Shipwreck is apparently piloting the helm of a ship, because the rest of the vehicle is nowhere to be seen according to the cover
Read more3.75″ Joe Kickstarter
We interrupt the usual daily post (don’t worry–a super fun Halloween feature is coming later today) to tell you about yet another cool Joe-related Kickstarter project. 3.75″ Joe: Creating G.I.Joe ®: A Real American Hero™ focuses on pre-production art as well as stories from the people who created the 1980s iteration of the brand. The project is the first volume
Read moreSecret of the Mummy’s Tomb
Remember the book and record sets of days gone by? I sure do. I can recall the veritable library of sets that my grade school maintained: everything from standard kids’ sing-along fare to then-current releases like The Black Hole and Star Wars. The GI Joe Adventure Team releases were a few years before my time, but they’re fun nevertheless. Youtube
Read moreThat’s How I Found It: Fact and Yearbook
It’s another video feature with an item that I’ve found in the wild. This time we’ve got the Fact and Yearbook, which bears many similarities to the first Marvel comic yearbook. Check it out.
Read moreAudio Interview: Kindle Worlds GI Joe Author Jim Beard
I’m back from vacation, and I’ve got a special feature. I spent some time interviewing Jim Beard, author of a Kindle Worlds GI Joe novella based in the Adventure Team era of the 1970s. The novella is a real page turner written in a pulp adventure style and it’s sure to please fans of GI Joe as well as bringing
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