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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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04-30-2011, 06:51 PM
zuludelta
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Probably not much to say about this, other than that the two rigs are obviously rather different, so Hama made a mistake in his naming, but it is far easier these days to look up what a STABO or a Fulton rig is, so for Hama back in '93 I can understand that it might well be easy to get wrong.
Yeah, there are more than a few instances where Hama ends up with inaccurate depictions of military equipment/protocol in the books and filecards, or he ends up using outdated definitions of certain things. Hama left the service in the mid-1970s, I believe, so many of the things that made it into the filecards were based on what he knew to be true during the time he was still in the Army. His definition of "Ranger," for example, as it applies to his depiction of Stalker in the filecard and comics, is more in line with how Rangers were used in the Vietnam War as adjuncts in the HUMINT gathering and unconventional warfare effort (in many ways, they were more similar in function to today's Military Intelligence Battalion-controlled Long Range Surveillance Troops/Companies than the current 75th Ranger Regiment).
More than the paucity of easily found references though, I think it was also the short turnaround time between issues that contributed to many of these errors (has any Marvel title given out more
No-Prizes
than GI Joe did back in the 1980s?). IIRC, the GI Joe creative team had to hand in their work a week or a week-and-a-half earlier compared to creative teams on other books because of the Hasbro approval process... Hasbro had their "suits and haircuts" (as Hama used to refer to them) go over the contents of every issue before it was sent to the printers to make sure none of it violated terms of Hasbro's licensing deal with Marvel, and they would sometimes send them back for minor or major changes very late in the publishing schedule, causing everybody down the line to scramble. One also has to consider that the artist may not have been supplied by the editors or Hama with the appropriate reference materials or that the artist just plain got the visuals wrong.
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