Catalog Page: Super Adventure Team with Big Jim!
The Adventure Team morphed into the The realm of super heros when folks like Eagle Eye Joe and Bullet Man joined up. The caveman-like Intruders made up Joe’s first real nemesis in his history.
The 1976 JC Penney Christmas catalog featured not only GI Joe, but his also-ran adventuring competitor Big Jim, who has also embraced a more comic book style for its latest line of figures.
The only thing missing from this page is color. As an 80s kid, I can’t imagine getting a black and white catalog!
I don’t know about anyone else, but the article’s missing the picture.
Those Intruders look an awful lot like He Man figures. Or, more accurately, He Man figures look a lot like those Intruders. Guess Hasbro didn’t trademark this design. I do wonder if there’s a designer connection there somewhere.
The close-up of Double Trouble Big Jim reminds me of Tomax and Xamot.
Hell yeah lazervette!