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This guy owns the original art for the entire issue of GI Joe #21.

Outstanding.

MUST RESIST.

Jonboy Meyers has been doing the IDW Marvel reprint covers after they used the Campbell covers. I really dig his stuff. I saw him at Long Beach Comic Con yesterday and got this awesome Storm Shadow sketch!

As a kid, I’ve always loved “The Viper is Coming.” It’s the one where someone calls Barbeque’s home and announces “This is the Viper” which sounds ominous and threatening. GI Joe preemptively attacks Cobra around the world but doesn’t find “The Viper.” It turns out to be a misunderstanding, The Viper is really the Window Wiper.





I thought it was hilarious as a kid and still thought it was pretty clever when I rewatched it in the recent boxset.



Today, I noticed one of my students reading Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. I remember these books as a kid as well. The student was reading a short story called “The Viper” in the book. When I glanced over, imagine my surprise that it’s essentially the same story as the GI Joe episode!

It’s a very brief one page story. The line “This is the Viper” and the punchline is the same. I don’t remember reading “The Viper” when I was younger. Then again, I don’t remember about these scary anthologies other than their gruesome pictures.



The copyright in the book is from 1981 while the GI Joe episode broadcasted in 1985. I’m not accusing the GI Joe writer David Bennett Carren of swiping to cause a ruckus. Plus I'm sure most of the cartoons I loved as a kid were inspired by something else. I just think it’s fascinating that two things I enjoyed as a kid had something in common!

God, the Viper? I LOVED thaty episode!

I got the 'Kim Arashikage' figure from BBTS yesterday. I rather like her.

Interesting, There has to be a connection somehow to the short story and cartoon.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Interesting, There has to be a connection somehow to the short story and cartoon.

I posted this on another board. Apparently it's an old joke. Going back further, the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark source section the story is attributed to a Philadelphia teenager in 1980, and gives mention to another version in book published in the '70s.

I know this wasn't GI Joe's finest moment but I couldn't resist buying these. I really dug those episodes as a kid.

Supreme Convoy wrote:I know this wasn't GI Joe's finest moment but I couldn't resist buying these. I really dug those episodes as a kid.

That reminds me I have to get these.

Damn you, Hasbro! They must know I can't resist mystery bags. Especially super deformed characters.





And the figures that were inside? Ghost Ninja Henchmen and Steel Brigade.



I've always wanted to sign up for the Steel Brigade figure as a kid but never did. I thought the Ghost Ninja figure was peculiar because I've never heard of the character. A quick Google search later and I learned it was a GI Joe unproduced figure. In fact, I didn't realize Hasbro showed several unproduced figures last summer such as a line of ninjas and a line of zombie figures. Pretty interesting.