Holy cow! Now this is action! I really want to see what happens in this book, but unfortunately that’s not the point of the Captivating Cover feature. We simply judge the book by its–you know…
The book appears to feature the relaunch series version of Frostbite. However, like other covers in the same series, the character design differs from its toy counterpart. Though not as drastic a change as the Moray seen a while back, Frostbite nevertheless has been liberally reinterpreted for this shot. I can’t imagine how he’s maintaining a one-handed grip on an icy outcropping, but I suppose that adrenaline kicks in at these moments.
Also making an appearance here is the kind of climbing pick that would become standard accessory fare for arctic figures in the modern Rise of Cobra and Pursuit of Cobra toy lines.
Yes! The Cobra Tele-Viper gets some serious play with a novel cover. The communications specialists wouldn't be one's first thought to grace the front of an action-packed media tie-in, but I'm not complaining. They made a fair number of appearances in the Sunbow 'toon, and even showed up (in both…
Continuing the new feature in which I judge a GI Joe book by its cover, here's another Captivating Cover. This time, we've got a coloring book released by Marvel in 1984. Marvel covered a variety of action figure properties with coloring and storybooks in the 1980s, from heavy hitter toy…
Here's an oddly sedate cover for a coloring book. Lady Jaye, Mainframe and Roadblock staking out what appears to be a Cobra submarine base. Not exactly the bombastic cover of Marvel issue #1, is it? How can you produce an action coloring book and not have one single person on…
The new sculpt version of Frosty always reminds me more of someone like Blizzard. He’s just not Frostbite without his black hair and beard. (Although the vintage figure looked more like an Arctic Clutch to me at first.)
Holy cow! Now this is action! I really want to see what happens in this book, but unfortunately that’s not the point of the Captivating Cover feature. We simply judge the book by its–you know…
The new sculpt version of Frosty always reminds me more of someone like Blizzard. He’s just not Frostbite without his black hair and beard. (Although the vintage figure looked more like an Arctic Clutch to me at first.)
Worst Frostbite ever!