[DogByte6RER]

A nostalgic link for real American G.I. Joes:

http://www.islandoflosttoys.com/gi_joe.htm

[ErnBatavia]

I have the Mitchell Paige (Medal of Honor, USMC, Guadalcanal) model...Had a pal pick one up in New York, since I couldn't find one here, and then took it to Paige's home and got the box autographed.

His wife and my mother were big DAR pals.

Highly treasured.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***G.I. Joe was introduced by Hasbro at the American International Toy Fair in New York, February 1964. G.I. Joe was “America’s Movable Fighting Man.” This was new territory in imaginative play for boys - G.I. Joe was not a “doll” he was an “action figure.” ****

And before Hasboro started getting boys to play with dolls boys used their imaginations and had real fun outdoors. Cops & Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Knights in armour (with trashcan lids for shields.)

Then came GI Joe and the emasculation of the American male.