I especially like how the TMNT-styled ninja are all wearing red, like the turtles did in the original Mirage comics. Not sure if that’s just coincidence or not, though.

I have most of those GI joe issues and never noticed the easter eggs,but #180 i got signed by S.L, Gallent at a comic book convention and i was the only one who got something signed by him at said con

I wouldn’t know where to begin asking about the easter eggs in #180, so I’ll just say, I see a TARDIS!

I especially like how the TMNT-styled ninja are all wearing red, like the turtles did in the original Mirage comics. Not sure if that’s just coincidence or not, though.

The Red Ninjas were already established in the book, so I think it is BASICALLY a coincidence (although I think one that they were obviously happy to use, ya know?).

Nurse When?

Very clever stuff….

It would have to be an homage. Most of the Turtles’ weapons weren’t traditionally used by ninja.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawan_kobud%C5%8D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja#Weaponry

The best one was J Jonah Jameson popping up in #95 (second part of the Snake Eyes Trilogy). He goes to a newstand (which the Joes are using as cover to stake out a Cobra building) and comments no Daily Bugle amongst the selections.

As for “specific” weapons, I thought Destro was wielding Han Solo’s blaster for a second…

Hehe, nice. Thanks for sharing! I remember catching Astro Boy in #55 and Spidey’s legs in #119 (which, as a side note, I remember thinking even as a boy “wow, this story feels way different than the other Joe stories”, only discovering muuuuuch later it wasn’t written by Larry Hama!), but the others were new to me. I vividly remember reading #120 several times because hey, I loved ninjas — but I don’t know HOW on Earth I missed that TMNT homage.

There are probably two dozen other little GI JOE easter eggs we could come up with, I seem to remember catching cute little things like that all the time while reading those books.

I *wish* it was that easy to get around SDCC… I don’t think I’ve ever seen the crowd that thin, except *maybe* on Sunday a few years back.

Herb Trimpe’s art rarely looked that good

Just to add insult to injury, the guy at my table isn’t asking for an autograph, he’s asking for directions; it’s something that happens to me a lot. I guess my Charlie Brown head makes people feel safe enough to ask me things like that. I drop a lot of eggs in my stuff, but management doesn’t always approve. My Dixon-verse Joe stuff had a lot of things in it, if you enjoy eggs, time to hunt. I will admit- it’s usually Doctor based; cause I’m a geek. Enjoy.

Don’t see the feet of Spider-man. Maybe I’m blind as a bat?

Anonymous was me.

It’s funny, Shannon, there was a Doctor one in a recent Real American Hero issue that I was going to include but it was so obscure that I thought it might have been there accidentally, but I guess now I know it was on purpose!

I’m working my way through Classic GI Joe and Larry Hama is always good for jokes like these. I look forward to getting into the ARAH trades soon.

Of course, the TMNT wore red due to Elektra and the Hand wearing red.

Spider-Man’s feet are below Scarlet’s word balloon in the last panel.

@Tom Spider-man’s feet can be seen in the last panel to the right of the blond guy’s head.

Ut!

Does this mean we can link Flaming Carrot and GI Joe in 6 Degrees?

No one uses four ninjas, each armed with those very blatantly specific weapons, and doesn’t think they’re making a nod to TMNT.

Very nostalgic when I think of the Hama/Trimpe issues of ARAH. Pure magic to me as a child. Gotta go read them again…

the scene where Destro launches a wrist-rocket at the last remaining ninja who is showing me off, reminds me of the Raiders of the Lost Ark scene where Indy shoots the swordsman in the marketplace…

Holy cow–is that a version of Wulf the Barbarian in the comic-con pic?

That’s near-rabbinical in terms of obscure references . . .

Not sure where Wulf the Barbarian is up there, but Larry Hama wrote and drew some (if not all) of those issues, so it’s not as weird to reference him as it seems.

The J. Jonah Jameson cameo in issue #95 is the obvious Easter Egg in the Snake Eyes Trilogy, but in the very next issue look for the Three Stooges’ Moe, Larry and Curly as three helmet-less Cobra Viper soldiers trapped on one of the upper floors of the burning Cobra Consulate that try to string together enough appliances so they can climb down through a window before running afoul of Storm Shadow who is climbing up from the outside.

We featured that one awhile back (weirdly enough, almost exactly one year to the DAY)!

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2012/02/14/comic-book-easter-eggs-simpsons-in-spider-man-and-the-worlds-finest-duo-in-avengers-forever/

Now that is freaky.

One of my favourite running jokes in the series (including in the above-mentioned #119) is the stealth fighter pilot whose codename nobody remembers. The name’s Ghostrider, and since Marvel originally published G.I. Joe, it’s obvious why they avoided it.

http://gijoe.wikia.com/wiki/Ghostrider

Though IDW’s now publishing G.I. Joe, it’s cute that Larry Hama’s brought the joke back in the continuation of Real American Hero.