Original animated version of G.I. Joe the definitve version?

[dru]

GI Joe: A Real American Hero – Forget Serpentor and Sgt. Slaughter! The original 1983 ‘MASS Device’ miniseries, ‘The Weather Dominator’ 5 show follow up...

The MASS Device story is still a favorite of mine.

I don't think I've seen the followup Weather Dominator in decades but I wonder if it holds up.

While I watched the show, none of the individual episodes made an impression.

The original Hama-written Marvel comic was good for around 50 issues. It quickly devolved along with the toy line. I wasn't a fan of Billy and killing Cobra Commander lost me.

I rooted for Cobra.

 

[cultcross]

Tone down the thread starting, Nextgen, you've only been here a week and you've started 12 threads; over a quarter of your posts to date have been new threads. Try reading some of the existing ones and contributing to those. This volume of thread starting, particularly in one forum, is considered spam.

Also, there is a Science Fiction & Fantasy forum - this forum is for TV and Media which is not Sci-fi or Fantasy. Your other threads have been moved, and it's up to the SF/F mods what they do with them.

 

[milo bloom]

I was into the animated series back in the day, along with Transformers, but for both franchises the definitive version was the original comic book series. I haven't bothered with pretty much anything of either one after those two comics.

 

[C.E. Evans]

The original Hama-written Marvel comic was good for around 50 issues. It quickly devolved along with the toy line.

IMO, a lot of that had to do with the devolving of the toyline as it began to incorporate more outlandish elements as time passed. Hama had to incorporate such things from the toyline in his stories, but I think there were a few instances that he said "I'm not doing that."

 

[captcalhoun]

^ he refused to use that Cobra-La shit from the movie. he also only used Star Brigade for one story and that was a far more realistic one than it could've been. he also avoided the Mega Marines/Mega Monsters BS.

 

[Davros]

The action figure from the 1960s is the definitive version.

This

 

[KB24]

I know folks are suggesting their comic book favorites and action figure loves, but I took the title of the thread to mean the original poster was asking for one's favorite or definitive cartoon version alone- not which came first or was definitive in all the GI Joe mediums. No matter I suppose.

 

[NextGen123]

I know folks are suggesting their comic book favorites and action figure loves, but I took the title of the thread to mean the original poster was asking for one's favorite or definitive cartoon version alone- not which came first or was definitive in all the GI Joe mediums. No matter I suppose.

I like the original cartoon the most because it was animated by Marvel and the fact that it had Marvel comic like elements.

I have to wonder why the X-Men and Avengers weren't attempted first before Marvel would work on a Hasbro property. You would think Marvel would want to spotlight it's characters first. I believe the toy deal had something to do with it. Each new character would mean action figures and more money.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

There were strict laws about advertising for toys at the time. So Hasbro advertised the GIJoe comic book with animation. It evolved into a TV series.

As for why no X-Men cartoon? Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends contained two back door X-Men pilots. There was also an X-Men pilot done in the later 80s that didn't get picked up either.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I know folks are suggesting their comic book favorites and action figure loves, but I took the title of the thread to mean the original poster was asking for one's favorite or definitive cartoon version alone- not which came first or was definitive in all the GI Joe mediums. No matter I suppose.

The title of the thread did ask if the original animated version was the definitive version and other posters gave their responses of what they thought it was. For some, it is the original animated version, but for others it isn't an animated version at all.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I got my first GI Joe in the 1960s. He was dressing in a Marine. And that was one of the cool things about the original Joes, the uniforms were real clothing. One Joe could become a sailor, a pilot or an astronaut with a change of clothes. An addedbonus back then was the Captain Action costumes also fit Joe. So Joe could become Superman or Captain America. The equipment was cool too. My best friend had a GI Joe fighter plane.

 

[NextGen123]

I got my first GI Joe in the 1960s. He was dressing in a Marine. And that was one of the cool things about the original Joes, the uniforms were real clothing. One Joe could become a sailor, a pilot or an astronaut with a change of clothes. An addedbonus back then was the Captain Action costumes also fit Joe. So Joe could become Superman or Captain America. The equipment was cool too. My best friend had a GI Joe fighter plane.

I remember the Captain Action line of action figures. That was back in 1967-68 or 69'. I know there are a few web sites out there with the original costumes and comics drawn by Marvel and DC artist Gil Kane.