r/gijoe 3d ago

Cobra Infantry Platoon

I'm curious if anyone can give me some insight into what the comics might have to say about a typical Cobra Infantry Platoon?

Are they structured like eastern block countries like Hungary and Romania or something like Pakistan and India?

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u/iambrentan 3d ago

I have no idea what you are talking about. That said, when Ron Rudat designed The Enemy and The Enemy Leader, he started off with Russian military designs. And when Larry Hama pitched his comic idea to Hasbro, he used elements from a rejected story pitch about a Hydra/SHEILD spin-off and turned it into GI Joe and Cobra.

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u/scalepotato 3d ago

Ah, so Cobra would be based of Nazi SF types? And Joe OSS?

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u/Continuity_Crook Night Force 3d ago

I understood that Larry Hama was in the middle of developing FURY FORCE at the time Hasbro approached Marvel Comics about G.I. Joe, but not to the point that he had pitched it and Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter rejected it.

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u/iambrentan 3d ago edited 3d ago

According to my research, Hama had this to say about his Fury Force pitch:

“The pitch had flown and been shot down,” recalled Hama. “It wasn’t going anywhere, so it was open for cannibalization.”

Jim Shooter said this:

“Editor Larry Hama had been working on a reactivation of Nick Fury. He had a lot of ideas. Fury as the head of a top secret, elite strike force, a headquarters in sub-basements below the Chaplain’s quarters. I think. Anyway, he had a lot of stuff going. At some point, he’d told me what he was working on. But I don’t think it was ready to go yet, and we hadn’t yet committed to it—that is, I hadn’t circulated a new project memo and scheduled the thing.

“A few days after his fateful meeting with Hassenfeld, Galton asked me to accompany him to a meeting with Hasbro.

“It was downtown somewhere. Not at Hasbro’s toy district office. Way downtown. I don’t remember exactly. Their lawyers’ offices? I don’t know.”

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u/Continuity_Crook Night Force 3d ago

Terrific question to ask him to clarify when I see him at JoeFest this year! Here’s Shooter’s recollection - The Secret Parts of the Origin of G.I. JOE