The Ethics of the Adventure Team

[Megotu]

What was GI Joe really up to in the 70's?
I mean seriously. One guy with a plastic foldup boat sent out to capture a Pygmy Gorilla...Sent by Whom exactly? I mean was it just a few guys who looked a lot like each other on the World's Wackiest Scavenger Hunt? They got an Amphicat and went digging for Midget Mummies in Egypt? Did they get permission from the Office of Egyptian Antiquities?

[Mikey]

I always imagined them to be rogue college professors.

In a way, Indiana Jones ripped off AT big-time.

[HardyGirl]

They probably worked for the same organization as Dr. Benton Quest. They make scientific discoveries, recover lost artifacts, capture spies, endulge in space travel and maintain peace. I think their organization is so secret, it doesn't even have a name. That way in case of capture, no one can obtain that information under duress.

[jwyblejr]

I view them more along the lines of a type of explorer's club.

[Drain]

just and bunch of guy out for a lark.

[Tyme2tyme]

I always imagined a group of rich guys that ran a "club" for adventurers like the big game hunters of years past. As a group, they would decide on the adventures based on what they considered the greatest challenge whether it be pygmy gorillas or mummies. JOHN

[Drain]

I do have the GI Joe Mummy Quest Ornamate set by American Greeting that Walmart sold for $9.97 back in 2006. It came with a Joe in Dessert outfit, Dune Buggie, and Mummy case. One of these day when I decide to put a tree I may put it on along with my Hallmark GI Joe Ornamate if I don't do a Hallmark Star Wars Tree.

[Captain]

That was the beauty of lines like this back in the good old days. Kids didnt need to have everything spelled out for them. As evidenced above, we all made our own back stories for these guys.

For example:

--GI JOE was sent on these goofy little adventures as a make work project set up by the unemployment office? (what else you gonna do with a bunch of ex soldiers?)

--They are really a bunch of greedy relatives, acting out the whims of an ecentric uncle...hoping he'll leave them his fortune in the will.

--Glory hounds....each and every fuzzy headed one!

--They know they can never be as cool as Johnny West, or even that little shrimp "Big" Jim, so they keep going on wilder and wilder adventures to try and make up for it.

--They do it for the chicks! Chicks dig cars that fold out of a back pack...almost as much as they dig kung fu grip, mod hair, and pygmy gorillas.

[Tyme2tyme]

They do it for the chicks! Chicks dig cars that fold out of a back pack...almost as much as they dig kung fu grip, mod hair, and pygmy gorillas.

That's It!! I guess I didn't make that connection as a kid. JOHN

[Megotu]

I am just saying that by today's standards and definitions, these guys would be seen as pilfering tombs and stealing ancient treasures (mummy's tomb and the golden buddha), poaching (white tiger, pygmy gorilla), espionage, and possible terrorism. Unless they are a governmental agency in which they are just upholding American interests abroad...

[Lynn TXP 0369]

Boy did you hit that nail on the head Megotu...
Lynn

[MysteryWho]

It's just Champions of the Unknown, the DC comic.
I love the Adventure Team.
The army stuff is a yawn, unless there are giant ants, or something.

[spotter]

I am just saying that by today's standards and definitions, these guys would be seen as pilfering tombs and stealing ancient treasures (mummy's tomb and the golden buddha), poaching (white tiger, pygmy gorilla), espionage, and possible terrorism. Unless they are a governmental agency in which they are just upholding American interests abroad...

sounds like a normal day of work for Haliburton

[kryptosmaster]

It's just Champions of the Unknown, the DC comic.
I love the Adventure Team.
The army stuff is a yawn, unless there are giant ants, or something.

I think you meant Challengers of the Unknown.

[Drain]

Read this at your own risk, Trust no one.

They were ex-soldiers recruited as spies for the some top secret government black ops agency maybe CIA. Now that you have read this, I will have to sent people to make you disappear.