The GI Joe Adventure Team "Capture of the Pygmy Gorilla"

Hasbro’s 1970 one-shot The GI Joe Adventure Team “Capture of the Pygmy Gorilla” is a standalone comic that merges the toy line’s globe-trotting heroics with a jungle expedition plot. Published as a promotional tie-in, it features the original 12-inch Adventure Team GI Joe (not the later 3¾-inch Real American Hero version) in a single, self-contained mission. While brief, this issue marks an early example of a toy-driven narrative comic, bridging the gap between action figure play and sequential storytelling.