With just two more days in our holiday celebration of posts rigidly based on numbers, we’ve come to a nice even number of ten. Since there are ten of them in all, here are the GI Joe Battle Ribbons. One of the more impressive and most highly referential toy items to the Marvel comic mythos of the Real American Hero
Read moreOn the ninth Joe A Day of Christmas, I lamely found something that relates to the number nine. Look, people, this holiday theme thing is harder than it seems. So to start over…on the ninth Joe A Day, it’s the 1982 nine back. I’m surprised that there’s not as much focus on cardback versions in Joe collecting as there is
Read moreEight Command Rings! I know I covered the verse about rings three days ago, but this one fits better as an eight reference, I think. You wouldn’t want me to leave out three rings, would you? 1990 sure was a big year for package premiums. We already covered the same year’s Combat Pay inserts just a few days ago. This
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It’s the 7th day of Joe A Day’s happy holidays happenings. Even the Friday Field Report is part of the festivities, as KansasBrawler brings us a figure from the Dreadnok 7 pack. Here’s Zanzibar.
Read moreIt’s the sixth day, and sort of relating to six geese a laying is this exclusive six pack, with which Hasbro and Toys R Us laid an egg back in 2005. The “greenshirt” concept in modern GI Joe is something of a mismatch, considering the team’s nature as a group of highly trained specialists. From the beginning of the Real
Read moreEverybody sing along: Five GI Joe Combat Pay Dollars! Isn’t the five gold rings verse everbody’s favorite part of the 12 Days song? It’s the one everyone knows, to be sure. Some people even belt it out louder than any other. Eddie Izzard thinks so too. Combat Pay was an offer tied to the 1990 series of GI Joe figures.
Read moreThere are no calling birds to be found on this fourth day of the twelve Joe A Days of Christmas, but there is a calling from a simpler time–1984, to be exact. From a childhood tome of toy wishes, and its aged pages come memories of the Real American Hero’s less remembered product. We’ll never see the likes of the
Read moreIt’s day three of our Twelve Days of Christmas celebration, and though there aren’t any French hens today, there are three wheels. And one of them is a saw blade. Something this bat-excrement insane just begs for a second look. Check out the Lanard Corps! Chopper Trike. I promise you won’t be sorry you did.
Read moreOn the second Joe A Day of Christmas (or The Holidays, or whatever your persuasion–we’re all inclusive here) my true love gave to me… A comic two-pack. Signed by Larry Hama! When the 25th Anniversary series was on shelves, I picked up two each of the single figures; one to open and display loose, and one to leave carded. Truth
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My true love gave to me…a Predacon in a pear tree. Okay, maybe not in a pear tree. But it is Predacon. Today at Joe A Day HQ, we started celebrating the holidays with the first of twelve days of fun activities every night until December 25th, and it’s really gotten me in the spirit. Stay tuned tomorrow for the
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