I had three more recollections:

1.) It was early fall of 1984 and we had gone to the mall on some Friday night after school - specifically Bradlees in New Hartford NY. Back then they had a great toy department all the way in the back of the store (I can still picture it). Anyhow, I was told I could pick out one Joe, so I was looking through the pegs of Joes hoping to find a Storm Shadow - but not really expecting to much, because everywhere else I had looked recently didn't have him. I was almost to then end of searching through maybe 20-25 pegs of maybe 8-10 Joes deep each, when I saw the white of his outfit and almost had to do a double take! He was actually there for the plucking!! I couldn't believe it - I just stared at the package art all the rest of the way through my parent's other errands in the store and when we got up to the checkout I kept a close eye on it as it was rung up and then grabbed the bqag that he was put into - it was a seemingly long wait, but i had gotten him and was very happy and felt quite lucky! I was always intrigued how he was a "bad guy", but wore white - the opposite of all of the old western TV shows that I use to watch because my Mom had them on ion the background when i was really little.

2.) Christmas 1986 - got the Tomahawk, HAVOC and STUN. Lots of fun that day!

3.) Christmas 1987 - got the WOLF, Maggot, and Persuader - really like playing with the WOLF that afternoon!