G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO (1982) #21

This is the classic « Silent Issue » with the 1st appearance of Storm Shadow. Notes: Ranked #44 in Wizard Magazine’s list of « 100 Best Single Issue Comics Since You Were Born ». Was made a Silent issue because the actual issue #21 was lost before they were going to print and Larry Hama only had 3 weeks to get a comic finished. So to save time he decided he would take care of the story and pencils and by making the issue silent it would help save even more time. In the final 2 panels of the issue where the arm of Storm Shadow and Snake-Eyes’s shirts are torn there was originally nothing beneath, but Larry Hama thought it was weird that he’d drawn both of their shirts torn in the same coincidentally. So decided to give them both the same red tattoo because of no other reason besides the fact that he’d drawn both their shirts torn, and thus the Arashikage Clan and Storm Shadow and Snak Eye’s brotherhood was born.