Dates
- Cover date
- April 1986
- On sale
- December 17, 1985
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #46 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition75¢ cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition75¢ cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 0714860206404 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Canadian price edition0.95 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 0.95 CAD.
Barcode 0714860206404 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- Who's Who on Cobra Island · 22 pages
Ripcord (as Zartan) is taken into the new Cobra base on Cobra Island, and Professor Appel discovers the deception when he sees Candy's picture on his person and Ripcord explains to him about where Candy is (or isn't right now). The Joes launch a recon/search and rescue for Ripcord, then rescue him (actually Zartan), but Spirit's suspicious of him when he notices the bullet wound's all wrong. Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow land on the island about to get whom they think is Zartan (the Hard Master's killer), when Appel launches the experimental new Firebat, saving Ripcord from harm.
Publisher’s description
The issue opens with Zartan knocking out Rip-Cord and switching their identities for each others'. He then escapes Cobra Island, aided by the Joes, as a wounded Rip-Cord imposter. The Joe's launch a covert invasion by sea on Cobra Island. Meanwhile, Storm Shadow and Snake-Eyes have landed in a Cobra warplane on the Island and quickly start killing Cobra Soldiers in their bid to find and kill Zartan! Storm Shadow has learned that Zartan is responsible for the murder of "The Hard Master" -- the ninja master to Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes. Within the Cobra Headquarters, Professor Appel discovers the injured Zartan in his care is actually Rip-Cord -- the Joe who has been dating his missing daughter; Candy. Assuming that Rip-Cord is the only one who can find Candy, and knowing that Storm Shadow has infiltrated Cobra HQ in search of Zartan, Professor Appel sneaks Rip-Cord off of the island in a remote controlled super plane. The plane is programmed to fly to Cobra's secret headquarters in Springfield.
Characters
Reprinted in
Action Force (1987), G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Rise of Serpentor (2022), G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Compendium (2024), G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Kickstarter Compendium (2024)