I think I've mentioned this story before, but it started for me years after the Joe heyday. I had had Duke, Zartan, Short-Fuze, Breaker, Grand Slam with the JUMP, Clutch with the VAMP, and a Cobra Officer when I was very young, but I just wasn't interested. I think they were too realistic for me. I got right into He-Man and Transformers around the same time though, because they were more fantasty-oriented.

But years later, in about 1990, my brother had a birthday party (by my math, it was probably his 7th or 8th), and a friend gave him Tracker. My brother was pretty interested, so that very night he went to the drug store with my mom and bought 1990 Cobra Commander and Snake-Eyes too. For my part, I bought issue #120 of the comic for my brother while I was at the comic shop that month, but read it myself and loved it. I started helping my brother collect the toys (I was in middle school by this point, and therefore "too old" to play with toys myself).

So really, it all started for me at a point when I probably shouldn't have had any business being interested. Strange how things work out, isn't it?

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