G.I. Joe Comic Archive: Battle Files, Sourcebook, Data Desk Handbook and Frontline

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G.I. Joe: Battle Files gave profiles of the G.I. Joe and Cobra teams, as well as information on their vehicles. Battle Files was published between April and September of 2002. The Sourcebook was published in February of 2003. The Sourcebook collected issues one through three with additional profiles added. The first Data Desk Handbook was published as a one shot in October of 2005. The second two volume set of Data Desk Handbooks were published between October & December of 2007.

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Battle Files#1
Profiles of the G.I. Joe team.
Included: A special Memorial tribute to fallen Joes

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Battle Files#2
Profiles of Cobra, including Destro's forces and the Dreadnoks.

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Battle Files#3
Armor, weapons, gear, and vehicles for both the Joe and Cobra teams.

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Biographies of many G.I.Joe and Cobra characters.

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The Data Desk Handbook is a list GI Joe Team Members, their status and a bio. Additionally, the identified threats of Cobra and additional groups bios and status.
All Data Desk entries are from the files of General Joseph Colton. The exception is the Phoenix Guard which were written by General Phillip Rey.

GI Joe Team Member
Airtight
Barrel Roll
Beach Head
Budo
Claymore
Clutch
Colton, J.R.
Cover Girl
Dial Tone
Duke
Firewall
Flint
Frostbite
General Rey
Gung-Ho
Hawk
Iceberg
Jinx
Kamakura
Lade Jaye
Leatherneck
Low-Light
Mainframe
Mercer
Identified Threats
Baroness
Blackout
Cobra Commander
Copperhead
Crystal Ball
Destro
Dr. Mindbender
Firefly
Headman
Major Bludd
McCullen, Alexander
Mistress Armada
Dreadnoks
Ripper
Torch
Thrasher
Zanya
Buzzer
Road Pig
Zarana
Zandar

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The Data Desk Handbook is a list GI Joe Team Members, their status and a bio. Additionally, the identified threats of Cobra and additional groups bios and status.
All Data Desk entries are from the files of General Joseph Colton. The exception is the Phoenix Guard which were written by General Phillip Rey.

GI Joe Team Member
Recondo
Roadblock
Rock 'n' Roll
Scarlett
Shipwreck
Snake-Eyes
Snow Job
Sparks
Spirit
Stalker
Storm Shadow
T'JBang
Torpedo
Tunnel Rat
Wet Suit
Wild Bill
Identified Threats
Nuerotoxin
Rip It
Scalpel
Scrap Iron
Sei Tin
Sky Creeper
Tomax, Xamot
Wild Weasel
Wingfield, Vance
Wraith (deceased)Red Shadows
Wilder Vaugh
Dela Eden
Artur Kulik
GI Joe Reserve Lists:
Ace, Action Man, Admiral Keel Haul, Admiral Ledger, Agents Faces, Airborne(Talltree), Airborne(Six), Airwave, Alpine, Altitude, Ambush, Armadillo, Backblast, Backstop, Banzai, Barbecue, Barricade, Bazooka, Big Ben, Big Brawler, Big Lob, Blast Off, Blizzard, Blowtorch, Breaker, Bulletproof, Bullhorn, Bushido, Cannonball, Captain Grid-Iron, Charbroil, Checkpoint, Clean Sweep, Cloudburst, Cold Front, Colonel Courage, Colonel Sharpe, Countdown, Cross Country, Cross Hair, Crossfire, Cutter, Dart, D-Day, Deep Six, Depth Charge, Desert Wolf, Doc (Carla Greer), Dodger, Dogfight, Dojo, Double Blast, Downtown, Dr. Talbot, Drop Zone, Dusty (Paquette), Dusty (Tadur), Dynamite, Effects, Falcon, Fast Draw, Footloose, Free Fall, Fridge, GI Jane, Gears, General Austin, General Hollingsworth, Ghostrider, Grand Slam, Grill, Grunt, Hardtop, Headbanger, Heavy Duty, Hit & Run, Hi-Tech, Hollow Point, Hot Seat, Ice Cream Soldier, Inferno, Law, Lifeline (Scott), Lifeline (Steen), Lift Ticket, Lightfoot, Lockdown, Long Arm, Long Range (Fritz). Long Range (Garcia), Lt. Stone, Mace, Major Altitude, Major Barrage, Major Storm, Mangler, Marnier, Mayday, Med Alert, Mirage, Mouse, Muskrat, Mutt, Nunchuck, Outback, Ozone, Pathfinder, Payload, Psyche-Out, Rampage, Rapid Fire, Recoil, Red Dog, Red Spot, Red Zone, Repeater, Rip Cord, Robo-Joe, Rollbar, Rook, Rumbler, Salvo, Sci-Fi, Scoop, Sgt. Boulder, Sgt. Hacker, Sgt. Savage, Sgt. Slaughter, Shockwave, Short-Fuse, Sid Track (McLaughin), Sidswipe, Sidetrack (Joyce), Skydive, Skymate, Skystriker, Slipstream, Snow Storm, Space Shot, Spearhead, Starduster, Static Line, Steam Roller, Steel Brigade Commander, Steeler, Stretcher, Sub-Zero, Super Trooper, Sure Fire, Switch Gears, Tank, Taurus, Teiko, T'Gin-Zu, Thunderwing, Tiger Claw, Tollbooth, Topside, Tripwire, Updraft, Vorona, Wet Down, Whiteout, Wide Scope, Wild Card, Windchill, Windmill, Wreckage, Zap

Joe Deceased:
Avalanche, Blaster, Blocker, Chuckles, Cool Breeze, Crankcase, Crazylegs, Daemon, Dee-Jay, Doc (Carl Greer), Flash, General L. Flagg, Glenda, Hardball, Heavy Metal, Knockdown, Maverick, Quick Kick, Rampart, Shooter, Skidmark, Sneak Peak (Bueke), Sneak Peek (King), Thunder, Tracker

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Devil's Due still publishing through Image debuted the Frontline series in October of 2002 which was generally a series of individual multiple part stories. The first four issue arc featured the return of Larry Hama to the pages of G.I.Joe and was a story that took place between the ending of the Marvel run and the beginning of Volume 2. Each series had a separate creative team and writer.
Many readers did not embrace Frontline; overall it was a good series but in truth it lacked what many fans wanted. To me it seemed like a rebirth of the Marvel series Special Missions. I might be alone with this but that is hw I looked at the series.

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The Joe team is given one final mission to carry out.

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Destro chases down the Joes trying to capture the targeting module for the Rapid Pulse Particle Beam.

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The G.I.Joe team attacks the Silent Castle to retrieve the targeting module.

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The final fate of the targeting module is revealed.

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Duke assembles a Joe team that includes Snake-Eyes, Scarlett, Airtight, Frostbite & Lifeline. They are sent to the Coldfire Laboratory. In 1995, Duke was sent on a non-Joe mission to investigate some scientists at that same laboratory. He was the only one to get out alive. As the Joe team arrives they see some strange things.

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As the Joe team continues to investigate the Operation: Coldfire laboratory, they are discovering weird frozen bodies, secret rooms and budget documents. Scarlett & Lifeline are attacked by a large hairy creature. Lifeline is slashed by the creature and could possibly be infected. Scarlett discovers some caves and the Joe team splits up to explore the caves. Lifeline has a theory that the scientists have crossed their human DNA with polar bears.

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Duke's 1995 team is introduced and how their mission failed when the crazed scientists at the Coldfire Laboratory attacked them. The Joe team of Duke, Snake-Eyes, Scarlett & Frostbite continue to search the caves under the laboratory for a life form they have detected, a civilian named Chuck Trellice. As Airtight and Lifeline stay up in the laboratory. Each group is attacked by the creatures and has some success in killing them. Lifeline is showing some signs of infection.

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Airtight and Lifeline discover a way out of the Coldfire Laboratory, but it requires disabling the electric lock, and leaving the doors open. The Joe team is able trick the creatures into areas where they are trapped and are unable to escape from he laboratory. Duke and his team then escape from the laboratory with all alive plus the civilian Chuck Trellice. Lifeline is not infected.

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As a child Zanya was very violent in school. Her mother was verbally abusive, and had mean boyfriends as she was growing up. Currently, Zanya is traveling with her boyfriend, Kevin Schulte and making money winning fights. She and her Kevin meet up with the Dreadnoks, Monkeywrench, Zanizbar & Gnawgahyde. Kevin is trying to gain acceptance into the Dreadnoks by using Zanya. Both Zanya & Kevin are given a test assignment to see if they are worthy of being part of the Dreadnoks. Zanya saves the day for them, and Kevin gets the credit. At an after party, Zanya meets her father Zartan, and her Aunt Zarana.

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Young Zanya is in her room listening to a fight between her mother and her boyfriend. Her mother comes into the room and tells her that her father is Zartan. Years later at a Dreadnok party Zanya confronts her father. Her Aunt Zarana doesn't believe her. But Zartan has a talk with Zanya to determine the truth. Meanwhile, Zanya's boyfriend, Kevin Schulte has turned against her on a final Dreadnok initiation assignment. She beats him up and chooses to join her father and Dreadnoks.

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Chuckles is undercover in Extensive Enterprises. A plane is hijacked with a preeminent bio-scientist, Dr. Masoud Sharifi who is carrying the virus Death Angel. A GI Joe team consisting of Beach Head, Flash, Airtight & Tripwire is sent to stop the hijackers who have now taken control of a missile base in Colorado. Tyler Wingfield is leading this group of hijackers. Chuckles arrives at the missile base with some Cobras just as the Joe team has been captured.

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At a Colorado missile base that has been hijacked by Tyler Wingfield, the Joe team of Beach Head, Flash, Tripwire & Airtight is being held at gun point. Chuckles, who is undercover, has his gun held to Beach Head. They are helped out by an agent of the CIA. Tyler's girlfriend, Azura, stabs Tyler in the back and then helps the Joes disarm the missiles before they launch. Several Cobras are captured, along with Chuckles who chooses to remain undercover.

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Chuckles is undercover in Blackwater Prison. The Joes do a setup where he is killed, allowing him to escape being undercover. Firewall, Daemon & Mainframe have stolen some information from a company in New York City. As Chuckles is resting in a safe house surrounded by agents, the Baroness and Zandar kill the agents and wound Chuckles. Meanwhile in Seattle, a Joe team of Flint, Crosshair, Dial-Tone, Scarlett, Jinx, Shockwave & Law & Order assault a house where they capture an injured Dkembe, Tyler Wingfield's lieutenant.

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The captured Chuckles is given to Tyler Wingfield by the Baroness & Zandar in return Wingfield's debts with Cobra are cleared. In Paris, Wingfield, with Chuckles aboard, holds a plane ransom and demands 25 million and his mother Sheri Wingfield brought to him and then he will release Chuckles. Once Sheri and the money are brought to him by Flint and his team of Joes, the exchange happens and the plane takes off. On the airplane, Sheri shoots her son, and they jump out of the plane with a parachute together.

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Stalker returns home to his wife and step sons, Alvin & Jamal. Alvin is just beginning to get involved in a street gang run by Mad Anthony. In order to keep Alvin out of the streets Stalker does a balancing act of being a father, and taking down Mad Anthony. Stalker does some research into Mad Anthony's drug trade and stops a large drug shipment. In the end, Alvin helps out Stalker and each has learned a lesson.

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An internal power struggle in Cobra has Destro and Cobra Commander at odds with each other. Cobra Commander hires a Night Creeper, Josef Ulrich, to kill Destro. The Joes are already on Ulrich's trail after an assassination that they are investigating. Destro & Cobra Commander continue there bickering, and Baroness, Zartan & Storm Shadow are all drawn into the argument. Ulrich shows up to fulfill his contract, and is easily killed by Destro. The Joes attack, and Cobra Commander concedes to Destro. And the air is cleared in Cobra, for the time being.

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Beach Head takes five recruits into a real life training mission. This is how soldiers qualify for the GI Joe team and its told from the point of view of Fifty (or Four). The five recruits & Beach Head are being chased by a mob. One of the recruits, Three, is injured and left behind. Beach Head leads the remaining four recruits to the prison, where Three is taken after he is captured. As the helicopter comes to pick them up, they rescue Three and board the chopper, Beach Head is hit covering the load in and Fifty returns to help get him on the chopper.

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Roadblock has a cooking show that isn't doing very well in the ratings. At the same time Mainframe has just hacked into Extensive Enterprises computer system w he discovers that they own the TV station Roadblock is on. Tomax & Xamot send the Dreadnoks to destroy the station. As Roadblock is cooking on air the Dreadnoks attack and Roadblock fights back, and it turns the show into a hit.
**Final Issue

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Alternate/ Incentive Covers
1B-

1C- Dynamic Forces alternate cover, limited to 3,000 pieces. Comes with numbered Certificate of Authenticity. Also available without the Certificate of Authenticity from the Devil's Due store.

1D GOLD- Dynamic Forces alternate cover limited to 1,000 pieces, G.I. Joe is printed with gold foil on the cover. Comes with numbered Certificate of Authenticity. Also available without the Certificate of Authenticity from the Devil's Due store.

1E PLATINUM- Dynamic Forces Platinum Foil cover limited to 1,000 pieces, G.I. Joe is printed with platinum foil on the cover. Comes with numbered Certificate of Authenticity. Made available with any purchase through Dynamic Forces' website. Also available without the Certificate of Authenticity from the Devil's Due store.

1F RED- Dynamic Forces Red Foil cover, G.I. Joe is printed with red foil on the cover, comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Also available without the Certificate of Authenticity from the Devil's Due store.

1G BLUE- Dynamic Forces alternate cover limited to 1,000 pieces, G.I. Joe is printed with blue foil on the cover. Comes with numbered Certificate of Authenticity. Also available without the certificate of authenticity from the Devil's Due store.

16B

17B

18B

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TB1- Reprints issues one through four of the Frontline series.

TB2- Reprints Frontline issues five through eight.

TB3- Reprints Frontline issues eleven through fourteen.

TB4- Reprints Frontline issues nine, ten, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen.