Actually, I have included Tony Stark and Matt Trakker in similar ways.


Matt Trakker (Trakker Industries)-is the 'R & D' aspect of what the JOE team needs. He designs the product and does testing along with his old pal Dr. Alex Sector (and a few others who pull paychecks from TI). These guys are not so much 'G.I. JOE's as they are scientist types who, from hanging around with the military, have picked up some wherewithall on how to operate. But they are not full-fledged JOEs.


Tony Stark (Stark Industries)-is the CEO of the weapons manufacturing end of the G.I. JOE team. His time is spent mostly doing 'his thing' aka *S.H.I.E.L.D. and/or Avengers* work. To that end, Mr. Stark is not readily known to the vast majority of the JOE team. He will come in for meetings with the JOE hierarchy and then be gone long before anybody can bump into him in the hallways.



The link for both of these mega millionaires developing/selling/etc. with the G.I. JOE team comes from what I (and Flint) came up with back at the end of the Marvel run. With the team being disbanded, we wanted to have a realistic way for the team to survive as para-military. I created 'JMS Trucking, Inc.' as a company that was headed by G.I. Joe. He secured contracts with both Trakker & Stark Industries to serve as their sole transportation provider. This agreement has proved financially positive for all parties and (at the time) gave us a reason for the JOE team to continue working-albeit in a more 'A Team/Knight Rider' sense of the word.

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