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G.I. Joe: The Complete Collection #1

IDW · Series began 2012 · September 2012

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Dates

Cover date: September 2012
On sale: October 31, 2012
Pages: 320

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

First Printing

Barcode 978161377396354999
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2nd printing

Second Printing

Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
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Creators

pencils: Shawn Lee, Herb Trimpe, Don Perlin, Bob Hall, Mike Vosburg, Bob Campinks: Shawn Lee, Bob McLeod, Herb Trimpe, Jack Abel, Al Milgrom, Jon D'Agostino, Frank Giacoia, Mike Esposito, Chic Stone, Bob Campcolors: Shawn Lee, Glynis Oliver, Bob Sharen, George Roussos, Stan Goldberg, Christie Scheele, Andy Yanchusscript: Mark W. Bellomo, Larry Hama, Herb Trimpe, Steven Grantletters: Jim Novak, Rick Parker, Diana Albers, Janice Chiang, Joe Rosenediting: Jim Shooter, Tom DeFalco, Linda Grant, Ralph Macchio, Denny O'Neil

Stories

Constructing a Believable Soldier · 5 pages
Operation: Lady Doomsday · 28 pages
Cobra has captured a prominent nuclear physicist, and the G.I. Joe team is formed to get her back.
...Hot Potato! · 10 pages
Scarlett and Snake-Eyes are left to fend for themselves in the desert as Rock N Roll is ordered to deliver a sensitive package to Stalker and Clutch waiting to get it back to Hawk. Rock N Roll then returns to save them just as both Scarlett and Snake-Eyes run out of ammo, and all three escape as Stalker and Clutch return to Hawk on a flight back to the States.
Panic at the North Pole! · 22 pages
A small Joe team is sent to an Arctic scientific base at the North Pole to find out why all communication has been lost and run across an Eskimo named Kwinn working for the Russians, who has recovered a device which affects the brain.
The Trojan Gambit · 22 pages
The Joes bring a captured Cobra robot into The Pit but the mechanical monstrosity puts itself back together again and tries to fight its way to the surface to let the snakes know exactly where the secret Joe base is located.
Operation: Wingfield! · 22 pages
The Joes infiltrate a paramilitary group that plans on starting World War III with nukes.
"Tanks" for the Memories · 22 pages
Cobra learns that the Joes plan on displaying the new MOBAT tank in a New York City parade and try to capture it.
To Fail Is to Conquer...To Succeed Is to Die! · 22 pages
The Joes are sent in to Afghanistan to retrieve tech from a downed experimental plane when they come up against the Oktober Guard bent on the same goal. Cobra attempts to steal the equipment for themselves and runs across both teams.
Walls of Death! · 22 pages
The Joes team up with the Oktober Guard after Cobra captures both teams in order to take an experimental plane and its tech away from them.
Code Name: Sea-Strike! · 22 pages
Cobra tries to keep the Joes from launching a payload into space that would help the Joes in their battle vs. them.
The Diplomat · 22 pages
Scarlett and Clutch are on escort duty to make sure a U.S. ambassador arrives at a critical peace meeting on time, but Cobra is gunning for them and has a deadly plan of their own already in motion.
A Nice Little Town Like Ours... · 22 pages
Snake-Eyes, Scarlet and Zap are captured by Cobra and taken to Springfield, a town controlled by Cobra. A young boy helps the Joes make their escape as Dr. Venom attempts to get the location of Joe headquarters from Snake-Eyes using his brainwave scanner and fails, and Snakes joins up with them later.
The Pipeline Ploy! · 24 pages
The Joes try to keep Cobra from releasing a plague agent and stealing a load of plutonium using the Alaskan pipeline.
Three Strikes for Snake-Eyes · 22 pages
The Joes try to retrieve a cache of missile guidance chips from Cobra but Kwinn stands in the way, and they are captured by Cobra. Stalker, Gung-Ho, and Breaker escape, but Snake-Eyes, Kwinn, and Dr. Venom are still at the bunker when the Baroness bombs it, with the three Joes swearing revenge for losing their teammate.