My niche collection

I started this collection many years ago and am not sure when it will end. I can't say exactly when it started either but I bought a group of US GI Joes and included in the lot was a number 111. But it was named Comandos Em Acao. I found that it was printed in Brazil in portuguese. The thought that GI Joe was anything other than American had never occurred to me. So it began. Don't we all just love the "hunt"? So for at least the last 10 years I have scoured the globe for international copies of GI Joe. Some of the sets are still incomplete (only a couple) and the search will continue. They are printed in all shapes and sizes. Issues are bigger than ours, smaller, digest sized, black and white. Many are just translated issues but a few countries elected to create their own stories and some even added new characters. Some are heavily edited. I have amassed around 1100 different issues from 28 countries (including the USA) in 21 languages. The majority of the collection may be viewed on these two websites:

www.gijoecomicsinternational.com

www.gijoecomicsusa.com

I have been growing weary of the IDW GI Joe comics. Too many different covers, many of lesser quality in my opinion, just there to sell more comics. I miss the old days where a variant cover was a rare thing and sought out. Now we have several variants every month, every issue. Really, how many sketch covers do we actually need? Anyway, enough of my whining, please check out my collection.

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