El Ape Sleeze

Emerging from the Copper Age's action-packed trenches, El Ape Sleeze made their debut in G.I. Joe European Missions #10 in 1989, brought to life by creators Ian Rimmer and John Marshall during Marvel's transatlantic expansion of the G.I. Joe universe. This distinctively named character carved out a niche across titles like Action Force Monthly and Epic, sharing pages with heavy hitters including Flint, Hawk, and the legendary Dashiell R. Faireborn. With only six catalog appearances across a run that stretched into the early '90s, El Ape Sleeze is a genuine rarity — the kind of deep-cut discovery that makes digging through back issues so rewarding for devoted collectors of this era.