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The GI Joe/Cobra Concept Art & Filecard Project
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01-13-2012, 02:06 AM
zuludelta
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Quote:
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Loose Cannon
It's too bad Steeler didn't get more love. Was Steeler one of Hama's original characters from his Fury Force Concept?
Yup. He wasn't a tanker in the "back-of-a-manila-envelope" original designs, he was supposed to be Fury Force's machine gunner. And he wasn't a commissioned officer, either. Fury Force was led by an NCO (alternately designated in Hama's sketches as "Sgt. Fury" and "Nick Fury, Jr.") so the original Steeler was likely an E-4 or a less senior sergeant.
Funny thing about the old 1981 Larry Hama Steeler sketch (click
here
, he's the third one from your left, standing), if you ignore the bared arms and if you squint a little, he almost looks like
Big Ben
. I've got a higher res scan of the sketch and it even looks like he's wearing a Falklands War-era British Army cold weather cap with an upturned bill, just like the one worn by Big Ben in the original toy design. The Fury Force version of Steeler being British would make some sense, since Fury Force was supposed to be at once a part of SHIELD (an international organization) and a "modern" version of the old WWII-era Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos (which was also staffed by operatives from different Allied nations).
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