Dates
- Cover date
- March 1985
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition$1.50 cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition$1.50 cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 0714860217303 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Canadian price edition1.75 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 1.75 CAD.
Barcode 0714860217303 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- Operation: Lady Doomsday · 28 pages
Cobra captures prominent nuclear physicist Doctor Adele Burkhart. The newly-formed Special Counter-Terrorist Group Delta, code name G.I. Joe, is tasked with her rescue by Generals Austin and Flagg.
- G.I. Joe on Television · 7 pages
Article on Marvel Productions' animated television commercial for G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero (Marvel, 1982) #1 (the first-ever television commercial for a comic book) and other issues, the Sunbow / Marvel Productions 5-episode animated mini-series "G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero" (1983), and its 5-episode sequel "G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra" (1984). Ends with an announcement of a new ongoing "G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero" daily animated series from Sunbow / Marvel Productions beginning in 1985.
- Memo · 1 pages
Characters
Reprinted in
G.I. Joe Yearbook (2012), G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Yearbook Reprint (2021), G.I. Joe Yearbook #1 Kickstarter Exclusive (2024), G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Kickstarter Compendium (2024)