Happy Birthday G.I. Joe

[Hotfoot]

Saw that he was Born February 2, 1964

[toys2cool]

he's aged very well

[HardyGirl]

And the Action Figure was born! YAY!

[Nostalgiabuff]

few more years and we should see some really cool stuff to mark his 50th.

[AAAAA]

few more years and we should see some really cool stuff to mark his 50th.

Lets hope there not offering of high priced bunch of cardboard
like the 40th

[Brown Bear]

Without GI Joe, there would've been no mego.

[TrueDave]

And the Action Figure was born! YAY!

I thought the Superman composition wood/plaster was the first .?????

[Joe90]

There's some dispute as to his "birthday". The general consensus is that it coincides with the 1964 New York Toy Fair. Some say it was February 2, 1964, others claim the Toy Fair didn't start until February 9, 1964. Most claims of February 9 come from published books on GI Joe.

I prefer the date below because it coincides with another seminal moment in Popular Culture...

February 9, 1964

Whichever it is, Happy Birthday GI Joe!

[Hotfoot]

G.I. Joe is a line of action figures produced by the toy company Hasbro. The initial product offering represented four of the branches of the U.S. armed forces with the Soldier (U.S. Army), Action Sailor (U.S. Navy), Action Pilot (USAF) and Action Marine (USMC). The term G.I. stands for Government Issue and became a generic term for U.S. soldiers (predating the action figures), especially ground forces. The development of G.I. Joe led to the coining of the term "action figure".

The G.I. Joe trademark has been used by Hasbro to title two different toy lines. The original 12-inch line that began in 1964 centered on realistic action figures. In the United Kingdom, this line was licensed to Palitoy and known as Action Man. In 1982, the line was relaunched in a 3¾-inch scale complete with vehicles, playsets, and a complex background story involving an ongoing struggle between the G.I. Joe Team and the evil Cobra Command which seeks to take over the Free World while using terrorism. As the American line evolved into the Real American Hero series, Action Man also changed, by using the same molds and being renamed as Action Force. Although the members of the G.I. Joe team are not superheroes, they all had expertise in areas such as martial arts, weapons and explosives

[jds1911a1]

I thought the Superman composition wood/plaster was the first .?????

Hasbro coined the term action figure to describe GIJOE. otherwise he would have been called a Doll and dolls were for girls