Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles
When I say that he's Captain America, what I mean is that he's an elite special forces squad leader from World War 2 who got frozen, was declared MIA, and then discovered and thawed out decades later to serve his country again when it is menaced by the same nazi-aligned supervillain who he fought back in the forties. What I don't mean when I say he's Captain America, on the other hand, is that he has any of the pathos, charm, or idiosyncrasy that various depictions of Cap have been imbued with by their authors.
GI Joe, A Real American Hero S1E1-5: "The Pyramid of Darkness" (continued)
this is the only version of GI Joe
GI Joe, A Real American Hero S1E1-5: "The Pyramid of Darkness"
My head is spinning and my body is made of light. I can taste the drumbeats and I feel the images lick and nibble my skin.
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #2 (continued)
I was as shocked as many of you probably are to realize that GI Joe #2 was written by the same people as #1. I guess either "Lady Doomsday" was them having an unusually good day, or "Panic at the North Pole" was them having an unusually bad one. Probably both, honestly.
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #2
Dunno if Vulcan Raven actually was a rip-off of this exact character, but I wouldn't be surprised.
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #1 (continued)
It's well drawn, well written, and - aside from those last couple of pages - well plotted.
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #1
I don't want to overstate my case. This IS still an "America ra ra ra" story, and it's handling the military with an incredibly soft pair of kid gloves. If it came out today, I'd be much less charitable toward it. For a comic aimed at children in the eighties though, the creators were being pretty damned bold.