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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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06-30-2013, 05:45 PM
blackrazor1
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zuludelta
Also, for you filecard obsessives out there, I was trying to figure out when Larry Hama transitioned from writing the ARAH filecards and when the filecards started being written in-house by Hasbro.
As far as I can tell, basing it mostly on the timeline Bellomo suggested in the 2nd edition of his identification and price guide, this began happening with the 1990 figures. What happened was, Hasbro's advertising/packaging department began writing its own filecards, and Hama's role was changed to an advisory capacity: The pre-publication filecards were passed on to Hama for editing and/or approval (although obviously, whether or not Hasbro would abide by those edits would be up to their discretion).
Note that Hasbro had written in-house filecards before 1990, such as the filecard for Claymore (1987), which Hama described in a message sent to Oliverbox (which he posted something like 1500 pages ago) as
"... I am pretty sure I did not write the file card on Claymore. It reads like a parody of my stuff. I would never have written a line like 'his reputation as a soldier is known far and wide.' It looks like somebody just paraphrased a bunch of key phrases from previous file cards. This may have been right after the first time I got 'fired.' They thought they could save money by having the file cards written in house. If a Joe sounds too superlative or perfect, odds are good I didn't write the card."
Hama's explanation clears up a lot of the oddness with the post-1989 filecards, and why so many of them don't read "right" (a lot of them really do read more like ad-copy than character sketches) or even contradict the established ARAH filecard canon: Guys like Tracker and Bullet-Proof seem to be "too good to be true" and there was also Major Altitude's filecard, which suggested that the Joe team was some sort of publicly known, almost celebrity-like military entity that had been in existence for a long time prior to the early 1980s.
I wonder how secret G.I. Joe was supposed to be. Doc's filecard mentioned him trying to enlist directly into G.I. Joe after med school. A unit of 13 people should have been easy to hide, at least from people outside of the Army.
Made me think of Brand X, the small group of CCTs that worked with Delta. They were the beginning of Air Force Special Tactics. I had never heard of them until I read
No Room for Error
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