Hasbro bought Milton Bradley in 1984, ending 124 years of family ownership. In 1985 Hasbro and Milton Bradley created the Commando Attack Board Game. In 1986 they created this trading card set featuring painted package art from G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero figures, vehicles, playsets and accessories and stills from the G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero cartoon.

There are 192 cards and 12 stickers total. Eight cards and one sticker were included in each pack. Evidence has been shown that each pack had the exact same assortment, so if you bought two packs with the same card visible through the blister, you can expect the same card and sticker assortment in those two packs. ​Although these cards are marked as Series One, Series Two was never released in the US. 

These trading cards are extremely popular on the secondary market, largely due to the unadorned packaging artwork painted by Hector Garrido for Coleman, LiPuma, Segal & Morrill, which handled Hasbro's G.I.Joe packaging design and illustration from 1969-1989. 

The G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero cartoon was co-produced by Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions. Sunbow's staff wrote scripts based on character and vehicle designs provided by Hasbro, then artists at Marvel Productions drew storyboards based on these scripts. Animation for all 95 episodes was outsourced to Toei in Japan, along with the 1987 feature, G.I.Joe: The Movie. The art shown below was storyboarded by Marvel Productions and illustrated by animators at Toei.

From the middle of the flat dusty Snake River Plain where Alpine was born he could see the mountains on the horizon in almost every direction like a physical barrier between him and the world he wanted. He took up mountain climbing during college and continued as a recreational climber during his brief tenure as an accountant for a large publishing firm. The G.I. Joe team gave Alpine the most hazardous of all conditions: with COBRA shooting at him!
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"Every time Alpine scales a sheer cliff piton by piton, overcoming granite and gravity with muscle and persistence, he is symbolically climbing out of the quagmire of his past. That's why we send him up first on vertical assaults. He doesn't take to being knocked down too easily."

Albert grew up surrounded by mountains in scenic Minidoka, Idaho, seeing the things all around him. This tended to give him a slightly fenced in feeling, and when he got out of college the man took to mountain climbing as a recreational sport - mostly in order to defeat that notion of captivity.  He spent several years as an accountant for a noted publishing firm, but after growing bored with this he enlisted in the Army. There they transformed him into a highly skilled mountain trooper, taking advantage of the skills he'd already mastered before enlisting - that and his knack for accounting, that is.

When not balancing his battalion's books, for instance, Albert was constantly honing his skills as a mountain combatant, a trait that eventually saw him being recruited onto the Gi Joe team. On his very first mission, Albert had to scale a truly impressive mountain: the volcano on Cobra Island!  Though dormant, this rock had just been freshly raised from the ocean floor but months ago, making for a particularly harrowing climb. Since he was there to rescue a fellow Joe, Rip-Cord, Albert didn't mind the risks. After all, how often does a body get to climb up something as uncommon as that?

Since his mission (and that of the other Joes who came to Cobra Island with him) was successful, after a fashion, Albert wound up staying with the Joes for quite a while, though most of his specific jobs, including one involving a Nazi war criminal and antiquated chemical weapons, remain classified.  A member of the team since he first joined up in '85, Albert was cut alongside everybody else when the team was mothballed ten years later. Luckily, the man has other, non-martial skills to fall back on, and he simply returned to accounting once he was discharged from the Army.

The Joe team was eventually reassembled, though, after Cobra made a big-time come-back several years later. While he didn't initially hook back up with the team, Albert did so after accepting a high-paying job that turned out to be for a Cobra front company - this disrupted his family's entire life, after all.  He came back just in time to join the team on yet another Cobra Island civil war, one instigated by a resurrected Serpentor and his mysterious 'Coil' organization. Surviving this initial battle, Albert stayed on call for the team to help avert any other major catastrophes Cobra would cause.