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Trivia / G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel)

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  • Channel Hop: Originally published by Marvel Comics before receiving a continuation published by Image Comics/Devil's Due Publishing and afterwards getting another continuation by IDW Publishing that renders the Devil's Due series non-canon. Then once IDW lost the license, it returned to Image, this time under Robert Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment imprint and continuing where IDW left off.
  • Divorced Installment/Dolled-Up Installment: Hama's approach to GI Joe was born out of a rejected proposal he'd made to Marvel for a series to be called Fury Force, which would have featured the son of Nick Fury leading a team of special operatives against Hydra. Many of the first-generation GI Joe characters were repurposed characters from his pitch; Fury Jr. became Hawk, and Hama based Cobra (which he created himself, as Hasbro hadn't thought to give GI Joe a specific nemesis) on his ideas for Hydra.
  • Executive Meddling:
    • According to then Marvel Editor-In-Chief Jim Shooter, the initial printing of the first issue was very low since Marvel direct sales lead Mike Friedrich discouraged stores from buying it in favor of the book Elric, which he had made, as well as having a dislike of military books. Following the initial printing selling out and Marvel being forced to make a second printing, Shooter immediately fired Friedrich.
    • Comic writer Larry Hama, in the Letters page, admitted that while he found several characters silly but did his best with them, there were still a few occasions where he put his foot down and completely refused to write about certain characters. The most famous of these refusals, and the one he reassured his readers he would never write about in the book was Cobra-La from G.I. Joe: The Movie. Hama absolutely hated the entire concept of Cobra-La from the movie, and flatly refused to write so much as a single word about it. He only relented almost 25 years later, penning a Cobra-La comic that was packaged with the redesigned Cobra-La figures. It was even advertised on the package as "The first Cobra-La comic written by Larry Hama."
  • Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Hama once stated in an interview that while writing he never thinks ahead more than three or so pages, and has no idea how an issue will end until he realizes he's reached the last page.

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