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G.I. Joe International Comic Book Archive


Many countries around the world released GI Joe comics. Several of these comics were under different names, in a variety of languages and generally for a limited amount of issues. These comics were usually reprints of the US Marvel GI Joe covers & their stories with direct translations into the individual languages.

In the United Kingdom, Action Force was a mix of original stories & US reprints.
Also, Battle Action Force was completely all original stories with a very unique starting history of Cobra and Action Force.


English Versions

(Numbers in parenthesis indicate amount of issues that are viewable on the site.)

United Kingdom Action Force
7 different series were released by Marvel UK. (229)

United Kingdom
Battle Action Force

Two waves equaling 165 issues released between 1983 & 1986 (165)
Australia - GI Joe
Starting in 1989 Cyclone Comics published 4 issues of GI Joe. (4)

Non-English Versions
Argentina - GI Joe
Released in 1987, 12 issues were published in Spanish. (12)
Brazil - Comandos em Ação
2 different series were published in Portuguese: 11 issues in 1987, 10 issues in 1993 each with a different publisher. (21)
Canada - GI Joe French Heritage
Starting in 1983 with EH as it publisher later switching to Marvel, 47 issues were published in French. (35)
Quebec, Canada - ComicOrama
ComicOrama is a multi-Marvel trade paperback released in French which usually contains six different comics bound together. GI Joe was in 15 of these. Included here is an additional trade. (4)
Chile - Heroes de TV: GI Joe
In 1987, 10 issues were published in Spanish as a continued series that started with the Transformers series. (4)
Denmark - Action Force
In 1988, 19 issues plus the GI Joe and Transformers #1 were published in Danish. (20)
Finland - Action Force
Starting in 1988 and published by Kustannus Oy Semic, 85 issues of GI Joe were published in Finnish. (85)
France - Heros Sans Frontieres
Not much is known about this series but they were published in French and released in France in 1987. In 1988, the European Missions/Action Force Monthly series was also released in French. (7)
Germany - Action Force
In 1987, 6 Action Force comics were reprinted in German. This series is actually reprints of the UK Action Force stories not the US Marvel ones. (6)
Indonesia - GI Joe
TBD --- COMING SOON!!!!
Italy - GLI Eroici GI Joe
Forza Irresistibile

In 1988, GI Joe was published in Italy in Italian for 12 issues & 2 Trade Paperbacks. (14)
Mexico - Comandos Heroicos
All 101 digest sized issues that were released between 1987 to 1992 in Spanish. In 2001, the first 4 issues of the new Image/Devil's Due series were also printed in Spanish. (105)
Netherlands - Speciale Opdracht
Published in Dutch, this series released 19 issues + 5 omnibus trade paperbacks starting in 1987. (24)
Norway - Action Force
Internasjonale Helter

Starting in 1988, 31 issues were released in Norwegian until 1990. A separate single issue was released in 1993. (19)
Poland - GI Joe
Not much is known about this series but they were published in Polish by TM Semic and released in Poland possibly starting in 1992. (5)
Spain
Héroes Internacionales,
Biblioteca GI Joe & GI Joe Reloaded

Three difference series reprinting Marvel (1980's), Image/DDP & Reloaded (2006) all in Spanish by different publishers. (58)
Sweden - Action Force
Published in Swedish by Satellit between 1988 & 1989. (12)
Turkey - Süper Joe
This series published in Turkish by Marvel Cizgi-Roman Yayinlari released 7 issues + 2 trade paperbacks. (7)
To the right is a cover from the Middle East printed in Arabic. It is the only known scan of this series.
Click the cover to get more information.

Additional countries known to have published GI Joe that are not available to view: Finland, Israel, Poland, India and Middle East (Egypt).
If you would like to contribute additional information or cover scans to help increase the accuracy of this site.
Email submissions@yojoe.com or Contact & Submit

Special Thanks for contributions to this section go to (in alphabetical order):
Richard Anderson, M. Bjerregaard, Jeff Bohn, Calvin Chymy, Jon Haarr, Firat Kayhan, Phil Kost at JoeReloaded.com,
James Marshall at Blood for the Baron.com, Rod Pellegrini, Scryptic, Roger Taft of Captain Cosmos Collectibles.

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