GI Joe #21 "Silent Interlude" 10 Things You Didn't Know about this 1980s ARAH Comic Book from Marvel

[@TheNYCGoldenGlover]

Quite possibly one of the best KZbin vids I have ever watched. Not only do you go over an incredible memory which still stays with me, you added so much information that I had no clue about. THIS IS HOW IT IS DONE. BRAVO

[@WeHadThat]

Thanks! I really loved this issue when I read it as a kid and it meant so much to hear more about the behind-the-scenes from Larry himself.

[@phenomenal-xv4ey]

Brings back so many childhood memories...one of my top ten comics all time. I "read" this comic hundreds of times. It was a simpler time.

[@WeHadThat]

It was definitely a favorite of mine as a kid too. I thought (and still think) it's an amazing issue. All of the behind-the-scenes stuff just makes me like it even more.

[@hellbenderdesign]

I subscribed _by mail_ to GI Joe, and Issue 21 was my first to arrive. The casual addition of the matching tattoos... unbelievable. If you weren't full into ninjas in the 80s, what the hell were you doing?

[@WeHadThat]

Right!?

[@amendmnt2]

..i just ran across your videos and i have been slowly watching them with the intention of seeing all of them!

[@zzzombie888]

I followed and kept my issues from 1 to about 88 and 21 is definitely a favorite..I even have the comic pack from 2007 hanging up on my wall .

[@RansomeStoddard]

Great backstory! Thanks. This one of my all-time favorite comics.

[@WeHadThat]

Oh yeah, it's a great issue!

[@econ8840]

It was so DOPE!!! I still have mine!!!!!

[@WeHadThat]

It's easily one of my favorites in the entire series!

[@TeamTriumphHQ]

Wow! That was amazing to learn. Thank you!

[@WeHadThat]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@patluvsvettes]

I've read every issue of the Marvel G.I.Joe run, but I think Issue #21 is the best of them all!

[@WeHadThat]

I read them all for years, but never finished the entire run. I'd like to finish reading them all eventually!

[@TooPunkToBeAPodcast]

Man drawing the panels first is completely insane

[@CalebWhite1616]

Missing is the Nick Fury inspiration/connection. A lot of the initial concepts for Joe were ideas Larry had for a Nick Fury series. And he credited Nick Fury Agent of Shield #1, which was the first comic to have a significant silent section. In that issue we see a monolithic citadel, a commando scaling the walls, a basement cell, and a wrist tattoo reveal. And Larry took it to the next level with the amazing SI.

[@chadkinsler9865]

Such great company

[@jerrythejitterbugcomicbook4098]

Great video. Just subscribed. Just cleaned and pressed a copy and featured it in one of my videos.

[@WeHadThat]

Thanks, Jerry! It's definitely a favorite issue of mine! :)

[@christopherwebb3517]

I had this comic book. I remember buying it from a Walgreens. I wish I still had it.

[@WeHadThat]

It was such a great issue!

[@mccallosone4903]

yeah blew my mind too

[@magnificentmarc707]

Awesome!

[@WeHadThat]

Thanks!

[@shannonallen2508]

now I have to dig it out and re read it

[@mrjasonharter]

Thanks!

[@MiKeMiDNiTe-77]

Awesome info

[@WeHadThat]

Thank you!

[@magnumrex]

I didn't like this issue when it first came out but as an adult it is one of the best laid out issues of comics. You get great sense of where you are in the castle. Comics today are all splashes where you have no sense of the surroundings. I remember the color errors but I didn't realize the window one.

[@WeHadThat]

I love this issue right from the start, but I can understand how it might not be for everyone...or how it might just not be what someone was expecting, so it took time to grow on you!

[@poolee77]

I have a CGC 9.2 one and a sleeved one to “read”

[@WeHadThat]

Nice!

[@patluvsvettes]

When Destro picked up the chess piece of the Baroness, it let me know that he did indeed believe that the Baroness was still alive. He thought that she had died in the events of Issue #16, and wouldn't know for sure that she was still alive until she showed up with a new face and a new suit in Issue #24.

[@WeHadThat]

At the time, I thought there was a completed story that was already all planned out and the creators knew what was going to happen many issues down the road! :)

[@SargeRedsVintageToys]

Yo Joe!

[@WeHadThat]

Thanks for watching! :)

[@hillbillyharper4008]

Man that's really cool

[@WeHadThat]

One of my favorite comic books of all time!

[@hillbillyharper4008]

@@WeHadThat it was my first gi joe comic. I got it at Heck's department store in a 3 pack I had never seen the cartoon so I didn't know that Snake Eyes didn't talk lol

[@WeHadThat]

@@hillbillyharper4008 I'd been reading the comics since issue #4, so I knew he didn't talk from the comics!

[@hillbillyharper4008]

@@WeHadThat man that's cool

[@camcordernonsense5264]

This sounds like a challenge you'd put on yourself and buddies to see what you can do.

[@WeHadThat]

Right!? Well, not me and my buddies...we're all very lazy!

[@charlesjohnson7458]

Go ahead and do the opening story from G.I.Joe Yearbook #3 as well.

[@WeHadThat]

I'll have to look into that one! I don't remember Larry ever talking about that one in particular.

[@ericheckenkamp6091]

I sold my Joe books back in the late 90/early 2000s, and I regret that I sold those, but I regret selling this issue in particular.

[@WeHadThat]

I'm so glad I kept mine when I moved out of my parent's house...and they THEY kept them!

[@rocdocs]

Cool man! THE MORE YOU KNOW...

[@WeHadThat]

...because knowing is half the battle!

[@camcordernonsense5264]

I accidentally got this in a stack of other comics I bought. It was you pick stacks strung up for a dollar. There's no way the seller intended to put that in there. I was buying comics noone else could love but me. Score!

[@WeHadThat]

WOW! That is on excellent score! This is one of my favorite comic books EVER!

[@literallyunderrated]

I love when that happens

[@camcordernonsense5264]

@@literallyunderrated mmmn hmmmn

[@literallyunderrated]

Great vid. Early-mid 80’s is when I bought most of my comics but I’m only discovering this one now. It’s pronounced ‘eee ching’ not ‘eye ching’ btw

[@WeHadThat]

Ah, good to know!

[@chadstern8013]

That was freakin' cool! Loved it! I met Larry Hama, but I did not ask him any questions on anything. I should have...looking back. He did not seem very friendly at the time. I had him sign the special Todd Mcfarlane cover concept of Snake Eyes where the stance is like Spider-Man. GI Joe Special #1, I believe.

[@WeHadThat]

Chad, thanks so much for your comment! Larry's great, but like most people, I'm sure he gets a little burned out sometime answering the same old questions. Plus, it might not seem like it, but being at a table talking to people for hours can wear you out. I've had tables near him at shows for years and he sometimes comes over to talk when things are slow. In that respect, he's just one of the guys. On the other hand, I grew up totally immersed in the Real American Hero franchise, so it's been surreal. Larry was a big influence on a lot of comic book artists and writers, when they tell me stories about meeting him or working with him on various projects, they sound more like fans than professionals in the industry -Haha!

[@r.j.macready5541]

I don’t know of a more Talked about single issue than this because the content and execution was just so tight, and it really had never been done.

[@secretsquirrel6718]

I have a copy of it if anyone wants to buy it

[@WeHadThat]

I still have mine, but it's definitely a great issue!

[@Javajoinjun]

Cool video! Always thought it was pronounced "YEE ching"... here's a link that breaks down the trigram tattoos further: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hexagrams_of_the_I_Ching#Hexagram_63

[@WeHadThat]

Cool, thanks for the link!

[@camcordernonsense5264]

DarN you house of board games, HASBRO! not in the business of making a board game?

[@WeHadThat]

Haha! It would have been a cool game, too!

[@camcordernonsense5264]

@@WeHadThat that would be awesome. Maybe someone should mold Joe's or print of the old figures in static poses and sell us a chess set.