https://www.skybound.com/announcements/g-i-joe/skybound-image-hasbro-announce-g-i-joe-a-real-american-hero-compendium
Coming from October this year.
Nice, always wanted to read the original Marvel Joe books. The Transformers compendiums just seem to be the Marvel US series so I'll just stick with the Hachette books. If they fully collected both the US and UK books in actual reading order I'd be tempted to double dip though
Cheers, just preordered the first GI Joe book
The related news (which I haven't seen mentioned here) is that the UK "Action Force" stories are being reprinted soon:
https://www.totaltoybooks.com/news/battle-action-force-treasury-editions
QuoteBattle Action Force, was published weekly from October 1983 to November 1986 by IPC Magazines limited, and brought together some of the greatest talents in the British comics industry of that time, both on the editorial and illustrative fronts including names like Gerry Finley-Day, Geoff Campion and Cam Kennedy. Included within its pages were the adventures of "Action Force", created by British toy manufacturer, Palitoy.
Four heroic Action Force teams: infantry specialists Z Force, ocean based Q Force, infiltration specialists the SAS and orbital guardians Space Force protected the world against the evil machinations of Baron Ironblood, The Black Major and their army of brainwashed Red Shadows.
Now, for the first time in over forty years, Total Toy Books, with kind permission from Hasbro and in collaboration with Rebellion Publishing and Skeletron, are proud to announce an officially licensed reprint of the Action Force tales from Battle Action Force collected in a series of deluxe sized 'treasury editions.'
If that does well, maybe we'll see a "Storm Force" collection afterwards?
I'm unfeasibly excited that we're getting both iterations of 80s Joe.
John Cooper did a LOT of the AF stuff (this was why he moved from Johnny Red, alas) and it's going to great seeing it again in a nice format,