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08-03-2013, 10:35 PM | #1 |
Crimson Guard
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I got my very first GI Joe (Voltar) in 1988 when I was three years old. Growing up, I never watched the cartoon; never knew there were comics. I wasn't interested in either to be honest; to me GI Joe were just very cool toys. I threw out my filecards except for two or three. I used the boxes or cards to find out who was good or bad. In my universe, Muskrat was the head of the good guys, Interrogator was the bad guy's.
Not until 2004 when I got into collecting that I watched the cartoons, then picked up various comics-mostly from the comic packs. Obviously today I go by the cartoons for my universe. I'm wondering, we're there others who grew up with only the toys? How did you go playing with your toys if you didn't? |
08-03-2013, 10:39 PM | #2 |
o-ring or nothing
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To be completely honest, I don't think any of us have grown up.
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08-03-2013, 10:50 PM | #3 |
SurveillancePort.com
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: M.A.R.S. EVERGLADES ARMORY
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I grew up with both, so I wouldn't be much help with the discussion topic, but I'm curious to see/hear/read what others say who have also gone without the media tie in and stuck strictly with the toys. |
08-03-2013, 11:20 PM | #4 |
Dirty Scalper
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Tampa, FL
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I grew up on the cartoon and never read the comic until I was an adult. I honestly can't imagine being as interested in the line without the cartoon to support it at the time. It was still great on it's own, but the media support is really what made the line go from successful to epic successful back in the 80s.
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08-03-2013, 11:28 PM | #5 |
a series of tubes
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Northern IN
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Right? Shit.
I collected Joes as a kid, born in 84 and collected til the end of Battle Corps. I saw the cartoon every now and then on Satellite channels, but didn't make it a habit. I got into the comics sometime around when DEF was being introduced and stick with it til the end of the Marvel series. Around then, Hasbro pretty much folded on the Joe franchise and I didn't get back into it until the 25th Anniversary. As far as how my Universe is structured, I don't give it a ton of thought. I don't play with them. The Joe-mythos has so much input from different types of media that after a while, you kinda combine them all into a gestalt. At least, that's what I do. As far as what I consider canon, I go by filecards, then comics, then cartoons. |
08-04-2013, 12:36 AM | #6 |
Iron Grenadier
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Texas
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The world is full of children like you.
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08-04-2013, 06:10 AM | #7 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: oklahoma
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i was 10 in 82 and was into joes as soon as they came out. i honestly dont remember the cartoons being out until a few years later and i occasionally watched the cartoon but for the most part me and my friends were outside playing. i also was never really into comics as a kid because again me and my friends were outside playing. i think we were more influenced by just the short commercials than anything else. we knew who was good and who was bad and made the rest up ourselves.
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08-04-2013, 07:48 AM | #8 |
SpaceCowboy
Join Date: Apr 2009
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I grew up on the cartoon and never read the comic until I was an adult. I honestly can't imagine being as interested in the line without the cartoon to support it at the time. It was still great on it's own, but the media support is really what made the line go from successful to epic successful back in the 80s.
although star wars won out in the early years...I cant imagine the joes without the comic and toon..would have been just another army man
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08-04-2013, 08:37 AM | #9 |
Iron Grenadier
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My first experience was the animated toy commercials in 1982. I was in 1st grade. There was no cartoon or comic yet so Flash and Shortfuse flew the millenium falcon. Rock n Roll drove a Fisher Price race car into battle to fight Greedo.
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08-04-2013, 09:50 AM | #10 |
Crimson Guard
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I was born in 79, watched the cartoon and it pretty much set the stage for GIJoe for me. Didn't know about the comic til about 1988 and only then I had gotten a little mini sized book with 3 of the comics in it. Never saw another issue til middle school in 1990 when a new kid to school had a subscription and would let me read them during lunch.
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