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1987 G.I. JOE COBRA BATTLE COMMANDER
He has tight joints, some paint wear and paint rubs, New O-ring and no screw rust.
Appearance: silver helmet with Cobra emblem on forehead; light blue shirt and pants with silver armor on chest, arms, and legs; black gloves, joints, and boots; dark red belt and holster.
Accessories: missing his airtube; original triangular silver backpack with four angled
spines; original black laser pistol with scope, textured grip, and energy
magazine, I have also included a large, unique silver sword that looks incredible, an aftermarket chromed Tunnel Rat bomb satchel with intact strap, the
figure stand
pictured is included. The clear two-piece display case is in good condition and great for display.
Please
look at the multiple pictures of every angle I have provided, in high
resolution, to make your own decision on the grade of the item - good
luck finding another sale where this much detail is disclosed!
Cobra
Commander likes to be up front in the thick of the action when his
VIPERS, EELS, and Siegies confront the G.I. Joe Team. To protect
their leader in the heat of battle, the best technical minds of
Destro's armament factory created a special suit of body armor that
combines flexible bullet-proof polymer fabrics with beryllium steel
plate components. The entire suit is air-conditioned,
solvent-resistant, and ray-shielded. The helmet is fitted with an
integral comm-system, internal read-outs for environmental quality
and a miniaturized computer display.
"At least we don't have
to worry about Cobra outfitting whole units with these suits. Each
one costs as much as a jet fighter! The plate parts can withstand a
direct hit from a heavy machine-gun and the flexible parts will stop
anything up to a .357 magnum. We suspect that the helmet has an
anti-tamper device with a direct hook-up to a half-pound of plastic
explosive!"
The man who would become the one true Cobra Commander didn't start as a world-wide chaos bringer, instead having his roots as a small time businessman. While he was generally unsuccessful in his ventures, either in used car sales or in other shady schemes, the man didn't truly go off the deep end until his brother, Dan, was killed in a car crash. The fact that Dan was dead drunk when he caused the wreck that killed him, much less took out three innocent people in the process, was irrelevant - the man was compelled to blame someone else for the accident. Turning matters around in his head, the nascent terrorist decided that the last surviving relative of the family Dan wiped out was to blame for all this.
After all, they were going to pick him up from the airport, and if he hadn't been there, Dan wouldn't have hit his family - they wouldn't have been on the road! As his twisted mind dreamed of vengeance, his business collapsed around him, and when his wife confronted him about this, he who would become the Cobra Commander left her, taking his young son Billy with him. Descending into a wandering life on the road, the future Commander's paranoia grew in staggering leaps, and he came to the conclusion that Big Government and Big Business was out to get the little guy, guys like him, and that something had to be done about this state of affairs. To this end, he began to hold meetings across the country, recruiting local thugs and malcontents into his growing power structure.
Having a band of the disenfranchised, stupid and lazy at his beck and call, the man launched an ambitious pyramid scheme sales program, and used the profits to found an underground organization dedicated to circumventing the system, garnering power through terrorism and extortion. He named this organization Cobra, and renamed himself the Cobra Commander! Originally, he based Cobra in the quaint town of Springfield, a nice place that had fallen on financially hard times - and was more than ready to accept Cobra's goal of beating the system by disregarding it. Everybody, from the mayor to the police to the small business-folk were under the complete thrall of the Cobra regime, which was just the way the Commander liked it.
During this time, as Cobra really picked up steam, the Commander put his revenge fantasies into motion. He started by contacting the mercenary known as Firefly, who he sent to Japan to track down and kill the man he held responsible for Dan's death, a man known only as Snake-Eyes. However, Firefly found the man to be unreachable, having taken residence within the Arashikage ninja clan. As such, he recommended another assassin to do the dirty deed, and with that information in hand, Cobra Commander journeyed to Daytona Beach, where he first met the shape-shifter known as Zartan. Tempting the man with the challenge of the kill and the thrill of exceptional remuneration, Cobra Commander convinced the man to take the job - even though it would take him months.
Zartan spent over six months working on the job, but ultimately failed when he accidentally killed the Hard Master, lord of the Arashikage clan, while he demonstrated a technique to imitate another person's body language and sounds - namely, Snake-Eyes. Nonplussed, Cobra Commander simply decided to wait for more competent assassins to make themselves known before attempting to kill Snake-Eyes again. Horrified by what was going on, Billy, the Commander's son, blanked out most of his childhood, and joined an anti-Cobra resistance movement in Springfield. As he did so, his father embarked on various plots to take over the world - or at the very least, several small portions of it. However, the Commander did not go unopposed in his goals, for a new military unit had been formed to combat groups like Cobra.
It was called Gi Joe - and claimed his imagined nemesis, Snake-Eyes, as one of its members! As such, the Joes got in the way of innumerable schemes devised by the Commander, forcing him to eventually bring in various outside assistants to keep the good fight going. However, adding personalities like Destro, Major Bludd, the Baroness, and more only heightened his paranoia levels. This put a damper on Cobra's overall success for years, though it turned out that this paranoia wasn't totally unfounded; you see, on one particularly dark day, Major Bludd and the Baroness used Billy in a plot to assassinate the Commander, and thanks to the quick actions of Storm Shadow (his ninja bodyguard, of the Arashikage ninja clan), Cobra Commander was saved at the last minute.
Once this matter was resolved (namely, after Storm Shadow rescued poor Billy from a Cobra dungeon), the Commander embarked on his most ambitious scheme ever - the creation of Cobra Island! He did this by tricking the Joe team into dropping enough ordinance on the ocean floor to trigger a shift in the tectonic plates beneath the Caribbean Sea - thus raising a large chunk of land from the bottom. Once he'd done that, the Commander moved onto the island and occupied it until his lawyers, acting in the capitol of every nation bordering the Caribbean, could get the island recognized as a legitimate country. This was the single greatest victory against the Joe team he'd achieved to this point, and after moving most of his armed forces to the island, Cobra went legitimate - legally, at least.
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