I remember Airborne vividly from reading this issue as a kid. I remember searching for his figure on store pegs because of his appearance in this issue. At the time, I was a bit disappointed that the toy's helmet did not have ''Airborne'' printed across the forehead.

For his first appearance, Airborne's uniform color is really different from his original toy. In the comic, his coloring is more in-line with how the Original 13 were colored - with medium green, tan boots and red details. I tried to update the recipe from the 25th version while replicating the color scheme as closely as I could for my custom.

Marvel issue #11 was one of my first and only (along with #5, 12, 26, Special Missions 17 and 28) GI Joe comics that I had as a kid. For that reason, I read it over and over and it was one of the first comics that I wanted to rebuy when I started building my comics collection last year. I was lucky enough to find it during a trip to the West Coast.

Rereading it as an adult, I noticed things that I was oblivious to when I was a kid.

1. Several 1983 Joes made their debut in this issue.
2. These new Joes looked a lot different than their toys. The artist must have been working from concept sketches or prototype toys pictures.