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Issue Details

Issue #45
Published March 1986
Cover Price $0.75
Pages 36
Editing Don Daley (Assistant); Denny O'Neil

Cover Details

Genre war
Pencils Mike Zeck
Inks John Beatty (?)
Reprinted in G.I. Joe Yearbook (Marvel, 1985 series) #3

22 page G.I. Joe story "In Search of Candy"

Characters FEATURE: G.I. Joe--Hawk; Snake-Eyes; Ace; Rip-Cord; Flint; Spirit Iron-Knife; Wild Bill; Quick-Kick (1st); Alpine (1st); GUESTS: Storm Shadow; General Austin; VILLAINS: Cobra Commander; Zartan; Professor Apple; Cobra Soldiers
Synopsis Rip-Cord disobeys orders and parachutes onto Cobra Island looking for info on the missing Candy; The Joes send a team to retrieve their comrade; Storm Shadow and Snake-Eyes learn that Zartan killed The Hard Master and head to Cobra Island for revenge; Hawk is made commander in chief of the G.I. Joe team; In a fight with Zartan, Rip-Cord is wounded, and Zartan takes his form to fool the Joes.
Genre war
Script Larry Hama
Pencils Rod Whigham
Inks Andy Mushynsky
Colors George Roussos
Letters Joe Rosen
Reprinted in Action Force (SatellitFörlaget, 1988 series) #1/1988 [in part]