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03-22-2023, 09:51 PM | #1 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Oct 2022
Location: The Pit
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Not sure if this was ever done, but thought it would be fun to talk about memories of the first Joe comic you ever read/bought.
For me it was issue 24. I had already started buying figures and playing with the toys and was watching the cartoon. I always loved the comic book commercials and the commercial for issue 24 was my favorite. I happened to be in a corner grocery store with my grandmother, like most places in the 80's they had an isle dedicated to magazines and comics. Seeing issue 24 sitting there, I was not about to pass it up. I probably read it well over 100 times and despite being a pre-teen with no income, I made it a point to get caught up on all the back issues (though I had to settle for second printings of issue 2 and 21). Joe really fueled my imagination. Sadly I stopped collecting Joe at issue 100, becuase I was entrenched in the X-Men titles. I sold off most of my comic book collection after college (talk about regrets 30 years later), but I still have my original GI Joe issue 24. The cover is ripped off the staples, it is littered with creases and tears, the newsprint is faded and would probably grade at 0 out of 10, but thinking about that issue and how important GI Joe was to my childhood always brings a smile! |
03-22-2023, 10:15 PM | #2 |
stretching your O-ring
Join Date: Jul 2021
Location: Tomball, Texas
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Mine was actually Gi Joe vs Transformers, #2, where I learned to hate crossovers.
My official first comic book was GI Joe Yearbook #1, and I still love that thing to this day. I scanned so many of those profile pages with a hand scanner. Remember those? |
03-22-2023, 10:55 PM | #3 |
Joe Monster Hunter
Join Date: Jul 2022
Location: Classified
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GI JOE VS Transformers Omnibus by Devil's Due Publishing. Pretty sweet and interesting re-telling of the Transformers while tying it in with the Joes and Cobra. Still I don't get why they had to kill off a few characters here and there.
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03-22-2023, 11:06 PM | #4 |
Dreadnoks Garage
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 2,963
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Changed my life and sent my GI Joe fandom in to the stratosphere. I was a couple of years in to collecting GI Joe by this point. |
03-22-2023, 11:08 PM | #5 |
Joe Gramps aka Mr H
Join Date: May 2012
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Marvel ARAH issue 4. Got it in a Newark airport news stand when I came back from vacation with my family back in '82.
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03-22-2023, 11:09 PM | #6 |
Balloon Bear
Join Date: Jul 2022
Location: Delaware Valley
Posts: 1,634
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#25 (Thanks Uncle Jack). First full appearances of Zartan, Firefly, Wild Weasel, Dreadnoks, Cutter, Mutt/Junkyard, Tripwire and Deep Six. I was hooked after that.
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03-23-2023, 02:37 AM | #7 |
Great White Northerner
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Canadian Imperium
Posts: 1,432
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The cover alone hopelessly hooked me.
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03-23-2023, 02:46 AM | #8 |
Zarana & Zandar
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: The future of GI Joe
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I didn't know there was a Joe comic until I was a young adult, long after they'd been published. Bought a bunch of ARAH comics all at once from a musty comic shop, but the issue where Zarana fights Lady Jane comes to mind, same first comic as TheFallen!
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03-23-2023, 02:49 AM | #9 |
Cobra Sith Lord
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Surf City, CA
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The 1st issue I ever got was issue #17 in fall '83.
I only got 2 more issues for the entire comic run and that was the GI Joe Yearbook #1 from Dec '84 and issue #89 from June '89 with Wild Card and Hardball on the cover.
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03-23-2023, 03:07 AM | #10 |
Commando
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Britain
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first comic with the Joe characters was Action Force weekly #3, my local papershop fucked up and didn't get me #1 and #2 which were sold as a double-pack. Marvel UK had already reprinted GI Joe #44 in Transformers UK, so I was primed for the series to start. AF weekly #3 started with a UK story and then had the first part of their reprint of #34, the Rattler vs Skystriker story. Which remains one of my favourite stories to this day.
first actual comic with GI Joe on the title was #152, the story of Joe Colton in Nam, which my sister bought for me from a specialist comic store in Bristol where she lived at the time. |
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