Comics
#040 HYDROFOIL
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Issue Date: October 1985
Series: G.I. Joe A Real American Hero
Issue Number: 40
Cobra Hydrofoils vs. the Joes' Battle Platform. Cobra tricks the Joes into detonating a fault line in the Gulf of Mexico that will create Cobra Island.
Notes of Interest
First appearance of Shipwreck and Barbecue.
First use of the transportable Air-Sea Base.
Cobra Island is created.
Buzzer escapes from the Pit with Candy.
Major Players
The Joes: Ace, Wild Bill, Airborne, Snake-Eyes, Roadblock, Rip Cord, Recondo, Shipwreck, Doc, Trip-Wire, Stalker, Gung-Ho, Duke, Keel Haul, Torpedo, Snow-Job, Cutter, Hawk, Spirit Iron-Knife,
Cover Girl, Mutt, Barbecue, Deep-Six
Cobra: Cobra Commander, Zartan, Tomax, Xamot, Professor Appel, Buzzer
Additional Characters: Candy Appel
Creative Team
Script: Larry Hama,
Pencils: Rod Whigham,
Inks: Andy
Mushynsky,
Lettering: Joe Rosen,
Colors: George
Roussos,
Editor: Dennis O'Neil,
Editor-in-Chief: Jim
Shooter
Cover Artist:
Mike Zeck and John R. Beatty
Full Details
Wild Bill and Airborne are both flying Dragonflies on
their way to New Orleans. They are to pick up the new
transportable Air-Sea Base and carry it out to sea.
Shipwreck is appalled at how the Joe landlubbers don't
even know how to hook up the base to the winches
lowered by the helicopters. Later, as the Joes fly
away, Cobra Commander watches them from a Cobra
submarine. Zartan is curious about just why the
Crimson Guardsman who is Candy's father is so
important. The Commander tells him to wait and see.
The Joes reach an old off-shore drilling platform
where more Joes wait for them on the WHALE. Their job
is to attach the legs of the air-sea base to the legs
of the old crumbled platform. At the Pit, Hawk finds
it hard to believe that Candy had no idea that her
father is a Cobra agent. She doesn't believe that her
father could be an evil man. Buzzer is being escorted
by Spirit and Mutt past the room where Candy is being
questioned. Buzzer pops his head in the door, and
when seeing Candy, promises to love her and show her a
good time. He is pulled away.
Under the Gulf of Mexico, the Cobra sub enters the
wreckage of a sunken oil tanker. It is actually an
underwater base for Cobra. Cobra Commander is
impressed by the appearance of the Lampreys, or Cobra
Moray Hydrofoil pilots. At the Air-Sea Base,
shipwreck is disgusted when he meets Barbecue. He
sees no use for a firefighter in a combat unit. Back
at Fort Wadsworth, Buzzer and Candy are being bussed
off of the base. Buzzer manages to jump the driver.
He knocks him out and hits the breaks. The other
guard is sent flying out of the window. Buzzer grabs
the wheel and forces Candy to escape with him.
Inside the Cobra tanker base, Professor Appel, Candy's
father, is showing Cobra how his plan will work.
Three cargo containers are sent floating to the
surface. Professor Appel then activates phase two. An
underwater transmitter begins creating wavelengths
that begin killing all the life in the ocean. A group
of Joes jump onto the WHALE and head out to see if
they can find the source of this problem. Above the
tanker, the crates break open, revealing Moray
Hydrofoils inside of them. They take off immediately
and heads towards the Joe base, passing the WHALE.
The Joes barely see them as they rocket by the
hovercraft. The hydrofoils quickly reach the Air-Sea
Base and open fire. The Joes have a lot of trouble
trying to hit the fast-moving boats. Fires erupt all
over the platform. At the WHALE, the SHARC launches
from inside of the hovercraft (don't ask me how they
got it in there) and heads down. Deep-Six sees a
giant underwater Cobra bunker with the wavelength
transmitter on it. He fires torpedoes at it, but
can't even scratch the concrete. The Joes don't know
how they'll blow up the super-fortified bunker. Back
at the Pit, Hawk asks the Pentagon for advice. He
calls back Cutter and tells him that the big guys are
considering using a tactical nuke to destroy the
bunker.
Back at the Air-Sea Base, the cocky hydrofoil pilots
are getting sloppy. Barbecue swings a grappling hook
out and snags one of the boats. It swerves around and
crashes into the platform. Barbecue jumps on board to
finish the job with his axe. A second Moray comes to
rescue his buddy. Shipwreck jumps on board of it, and
takes out its pilot. Doc feels using a nuclear strike
is insane. Duke asks him if he has any other ideas.
Doc notes that a nuke doesn't have to be used, only
the destructive force of one. He suggests using
kilotons of TNT instead. A squadron of Skystrikers
are launched from the U.S.S. Flagg carrying
conventional bombs. They all drop their time-delay
bombs over the bunker. The massive explosion erupts.
Tremors start up, and Duke realizes that they have
aggravated a fault line. The Cobras are thrilled that
they tricked the Joes into blowing up the fault line.
Summary By Jeff Edburg
Variations
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