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Issue #60: Cross Purposes Publication Date: June 1987 Writer: Larry Hama Penciler: Todd McFarlane Inker: Andy Mushynsky Lettering: Joe Rosen Colorist: Bob Sharen

SUMMARY

"You must have a primitive central nervous system. You should be unconscious by now..."
- Chuckles (while pummeling Zanzibar with his fists)

With a gun in one hand and Order by his side, Law radios Lt. Falcon that General Hawk has disembarked from a commercial jet and then the stranger suggests to General Hawk that he climb into a jeep with Lt. Falcon. Meanwhile, Buzzer and Zarana stop at Zartan's gas station headquarters and discover that their fuel is being stolen by Zanzibar and Monkeywrench, who are immediately attacked by Zarana and Buzzer since they were intending to steal the gas. However, Zanzibar offers a piece of information which saves him from Zarana's pounding fists. General Hawk enters an abandoned Miami hotel and meets Fastdraw and Chuckles, who explains that Lt. Falcon, Fastdraw and Law and Order were pulled from their current assignments and recruited for the Joe team. Their mission was to guard a missile that "conveniently disappeared" and is now aimed at Cobra Island. Suddenly, an old lady bursts into the missile's room and babbles about the location of the casino, but Zarana, who spots the missile, sheds her disguise as an elderly woman and joins Zanzibar and Monkeywrench as they try to destroy the missile and the Joes. Buzzer speeds away to the Cobra consulate building in Manhattan to warn Cobra, and shortly after the missile launches, a Cobra helicopter intercepts and destroys it with a missile of its own.

THE  PERSONNEL
G.I.Joe: Law, Order, Lt. Falcon, General Hawk, Chuckles, Fastdraw		Cobra: Monkeywrench, Zanzibar, Buzzer, Zarana
THE  GEAR
		Cobra: Dreadnok Cycle, Zanzibar's Air Skiff

Description
Zanzibar leaps over Zarana and Monkeywrench with his Air Skiff and informs them that he has found the Joes' new rocket base. With an insatiable appetite for destruction, the three Cobras streak to the base and attack General Hawk, Fast Draw, Chuckles, Lt. Falcon, Law and Order. Zanzibar tries to run over Fast Draw and General Hawk with his Air Skiff, but the Joes leap out of the way. Zarana fires the Dreadnok cycle's gun at the rest of the Joes, and while Chuckles leaps onto Zanzibar's craft, Fast Draw ends Monkeywrech and Zarana's violent rampage with a missile that causes the bike to flip over and self-destruct as the Joes' rocket launches into the air.

THE  PERSONNEL
G.I.Joe: General Hawk, Lt. Falcon, Chuckles, Fast Draw, Law and Order		Cobra: Zarana, Zanzibar, Monkeywrench
THE  GEAR
G.I.Joe: Air Skiff, Dreadnok Cycle

Lyrics
Watch out Joe 'cause trouble awaits ya!
The Dreadnok cycle's gonna devastate ya!
G.I.Joe a real American hero

Tagline
Will G.I.Joe ever capture the vicious Dreadnoks? Found out in Marvel Comics!

Notes
Of all the panels in the comic, panel E on page 15 was translated with an astonishing degree of accuracy in the commercial (Screen Captures: second row, left image).

The commercial featured the voice talents of Edmund Gilbert (General Hawk), Neil Ross (Monkeywrench) and Lisa Raggio (Zarana).

Scenes from the commercial were reused in the animation segments for following toy advertisements:
· Dreadnok Motorcycle and Dreadnok Air Skiff

Screen Captures