Comics
#032 THE MOUNTAIN!

Publisher: Marvel Comics
Issue Date: February 1985
Series: G.I. Joe A Real American Hero
Issue Number: 32
The six combatants in the High Sierras gradually recover from their wounds, with some help from the Soft Master, a member of Snake-Eyes' ninja clan. Storm Shadow returns to Cobra, and Billy's training to assassinate Cobra Commander continues.
Notes of Interest
First appearance of Recondo, Blowtorch,
Rip-Cord and Lady Jaye.
The first meeting of Scarlett and Lady Jaye is a moment to remember.
Death of Fred Broca in the Hgh Sierras.
First Appearance of Fred II, Sean's new father.
Major Players
The Joes: Snake-Eyes & Timber, Spirit Iron-Knife, Airborne, Hawk, Duke, Clutch, Recondo, Blowtorch, Scarlett, Rip-Cord, Lady Jaye
Cobra: Destro, Firefly, Cobra Commander, Fred Broca, Storm Shadow, Baroness, Major Bludd,
Dreadnoks: Zartan, Buzzer, Ripper, Torch, Fred Broca II(Sean's Father)
Additonal Characters: Sean, Billy, Soft Master
Creative Team
Script: Larry Hama,
Pencils: Frank Springer,
Inks:
Andy Mushynsky,
Lettering: Rick Parker,
Colors:
Charlie Sheele,
Editor: Dennis O'Neil,
Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter
Cover Artist: Frank Springer
Full Details
Destro, Spirit Iron-Knife, Firefly, Airborne and Fred
Broca are laying on the ground, all wounded from the
destruction of Snake-Eyes' mountain cabin. A chubby
old man comes walking up the slope, waving away the
vultures. He stops by Spirit, and offers him some
water. Destro sees him, and fires two wrist-rockets
at him from behind. Without even seeing them, the old
man uses his pick-axe to bat away the rockets. He
unmasks himself, revealing himself to be the
Soft-Master, the ninja master who helped train
Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow. He tosses the Cobras
their weapons and tells them to leave; he has work to
do. To weak to fight, they do leave.
At the Pit, the Joes are getting ready for their
opening ceremony of the upgraded Joe headquarters.
Some are also worrying that something may have
happened to Snake-Eyes. Back in the High Sierras, the
Soft-Master is telling the Joes that he needed to let
the Cobras go. All the while he is pulling the
bullets out of Airborne's leg. Right after that, he
asks Spirit Iron-Knife to help him remove the debris
off of the door on the ground that leads to
Snake-Eyes' underground chamber. In Springfield,
Billy is working with the Baroness and Major Bludd,
practicing the way that he'll assassinate Cobra
Commander.
On their motorcycles on the highways, the Dreadnoks
are trying to explain to Zartan why they did what they
did at McGuire Airfield. While they ride, they find
an Arbco moving truck lowering its back door,
allowing the Dreadnoks to ride up into it. The
trailer is really Cobra Commander's mobile office. He
is inside, and asks the Dreadnoks to be his personal
bodyguards. Little does he know that Storm Shadow is
riding on the roof of the trailer, listening to
everything.
While Snake-Eyes and Timber lay unconscious, Spirit
walks off to go find food and firewood for the
mountain group. Farther down the mountain, Firefly
wakes up Destro, telling him that while they were
asleep, Crimson Guardsman Fred Broca took a gun and
headed back up to the cabin sight to kill the Joes.
They know they have to go stop him. In Springfield,
the Commander has left the Arbco moving truck, only to
be met by Storm Shadow. He immediately offers to
double the ninjas pay as a bodyguard. He also
promises to reveal to Storm Shadow who killed his
uncle, as long as he protects him during the upcoming
celebration. He knows full well that the Baroness and
Major Bludd are trying to kill him. Storm Shadow also
explains how he escaped from Alcatraz. After using a
mattress spring to pick the door lock, he found a hose
to breath from and rode underneath a boat heading back
to San Francisco.
The heavily-wounded Fred Broca has arrived at the
cabin ruins, ready to kill. The Soft-Master merely
holds his arms out and tells him to go right ahead.
Farther away, Destro and Firefly run into Spirit, only
to find that he is trying to avoid a bear! The
furious bear then chases the soldiers up a tree, and
Firefly tries to drop a satchel charge on it. Spirit,
seeing that the tree could go down in the process,
grabs the charge, and leaps from the tree. He tosses
the charge around the bears neck, and tries to get it
to chase him away. The bear doesn't follow, and
explodes by the tree, causing it to collapse. Destro
and Firefly are forced to ride the tree as it goes
crashing off of a cliff. Luckily for them, it crashes
into a river, and they survive. Spirit returns to the
cabin, and sees that Broca died, realizing that
killing the Soft-Master would have brought him no
satisfaction. His wounds eventually finished him off.
At the Pit, Scarlett is furious to see two strangers
enter the building. She demands to see their I.D.
Rip-Cord is obedient, but Lady J just gives Scarlett a
bunch of sarcastic slams. Scarlett gets really mad.
At Fred Broca's house, his children come running out
to meet him, only to realize that this really isn't
their father. This is a Cobra agent made up to look
like their father, and to take his place in their
lives.
By Jeff Edburg
Variations
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