G.I. Joe Cobra Officer (Straight Arm) AFA 85 ** 3rd-Highest Grade, Only 3 Higher ** (Hasbro, 1982)....

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G.I. Joe Cobra Officer (Straight Arm) AFA 85 ** 3rd-Highest Grade, Only 3 Higher ** (Hasbro, 1982). Introduced in 1982 as part of G.I. Joe's foundational year, the Cobra Officer occupies a pivotal place in the mythology of Cobra itself, serving as the disciplined field commander who bridges faceless troopers and the shadowy ambitions of Cobra Commander. In early media and on playground battlefields alike, the Officer represented order within chaos, the tactician who turned Cobra's ideology into coordinated action. The straight-arm configuration firmly situates this example within the line's earliest production window, a hallmark of Series 1 releases that underscores its importance to collectors focused on first-generation Joe history. Offered here on the original 11-Back cardback, the very first card style in the line's evolution, this piece stands as a snapshot of Cobra at the moment it declared war on toy aisles everywhere. This example has been graded NM+ 85 by AFA, with subgrades of C80 B85 F85, and ranks as the 3rd-highest graded straight-arm Cobra Officer known, with only three examples graded higher across the entire population. For collectors who prize early Cobra, this is the Officer that set the standard, sharp, severe, and unmistakably vintage. Whether anchoring a top-tier Series 1 run or standing alone as a badge of Cobra loyalty, this Officer still commands attention more than four decades later. Cobra didn't need numbers to make an impact, and neither does this example.

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