 We are looking at G.I. Joe a real American hero issue number 15 published by Marvel Comics on the front cover We see Quinn and Dr. Venom and snake eyes. They're in an airplane. It looks like a bomber and the Bombay doors are open Snake eyes is hanging out of the plane by his fingers and Dr. Venom is stomping on him. This cover is okay I would like it better if it had more action in it But we do wonder how this trio got in this predicament on the splash page We have a title red eye to Miami with a creative team of Larry Hama script Mike Vosberg pencils and John Dagestino inks the splash page features an image of Dr. Venom begging for his life as Cobra soldiers disguised as Mercenaries hold him and snake eyes at gunpoint now hold the phone We start this issue with snake eyes and Venom still at the river with the sunken bunker But when we ended the last issue the Cobra soldiers already had snake eyes and Dr. Venom tied up And we're marching them through the jungle somehow We have backtracked and eliminated part of the story from last issue the bald Cobra soldier wants to just Eliminate Dr. Venom, but the leader says that Cobra commander is gonna want proof that these guys are dead And if they kill them now, they'd have to haul their bodies all the way through the jungle to the airfield But if they keep them alive Venom and snake eyes can be forced to march to the airfield Venom says He is a pilot and when they get to the airfield He can fly them out of the country the Cobra squad leader asks where Quinn is and Venom says Quinn is dead He accidentally hit his head on the doorframe of the bunker when they were escaping of course That's a lie Venom actually hit Quinn in the head with a wrench, but Quinn is not quite dead He slowly emerges from the water and shoots all the Cobra soldiers with his 30 caliber browning Dr. Venom is naturally surprised by this snake eyes shoves him out of the way But snake eyes is not trying to save dr. Venom's life snake eyes shoves dr. Venom's head under the water and tries to drown him Quinn insists that snake eyes led dr. Venom up They need him to fly them out of the country once they get to the airfield back at the airfield snake eyes Quinn and Venom Look over the aircraft. They may hijack. They observe a British Lancaster bomber and some spitfires These are world war two aircraft and already antiques by the 1980s These are not aircrafts you would expect to see in a modern air force But in this fictional South American country of Sierra Gordo that must be all they could afford The Lancaster bomber is the only one of the aircraft that has the range to get them back to the states And we're starting to see how snake eyes quinn and venom Ended up in the bomber as we see them on the front cover snake eyes and quinn quietly take out the guards the three men board the bomber Venom is in the pilot seat snake eyes man's the machine guns and quinn sits in the engineer's seat Quinn studies the flight manual and dr. Venom suggests that since quinn has flown small aircraft He might give dr. Venom a break at the controls But quinn says he won't do that if it involves him turning his back on dr. Venom And that's the right thing because you don't ever want to turn your back on dr. Venom That's when he shoves the knife between your shoulder blades dr. Venom starts the engines on the bomber But only three of the four engines start and they need all four engines to get off the ground The revving engines alert the guards and they open fire on the airplane Dr. Venom gets the plane rolling down the runway with only three engines running They can't get up enough speed to take off so dr. Venom pulls a u-turn and heads toward the other end of the runway As he does so snake eyes uses the machine gun to take out the fighter aircraft So they won't have any Fighter planes that will follow them with all the fighter planes taken out snake eyes turns this machine gun to the Control tower and returns fire at the guards They're running out of time though as they're being chased by trucks with machine guns And there's a barricade at the other end of the runway snake eyes opens fire on their pursuers And at the last possible moment dr. Venom gets the fourth engine started The plane takes off and it barely makes it over the trucks that are blocking the runway and the landing gear are taken out They are in the air and after all the excitement dr. Venom asks quinn to take over the controls Dr. Venom will study the flight manual while quinn flies toward florida But of course dr. Venom is going to double cross his companion. He's not just studying the flight manual He is tapping out a message in morris code to cobra Unfortunately for the titanic trio. They did not take out all the fighter planes One remained and it is pursuing them now snake eyes shoots at the fighter plane and dr. Venom tries to outmaneuver it But the bomber is just too sluggish To get away from the much more maneuverable fighter plane And so the fighter moves in for the kill dr. Venom points the nose of the bomber directly at the ground The fighter plane follows and then suddenly venom throws on all of the running lights on the bomber Which blinds the fighter pilot the bomber pulls up at the last second and the blinded fighter pilot Flies directly into the ground and crashes quinn says to dr. Venom You are a good pilot venom too bad the weasel spirit lives in your belly like a cancer Throughout their story quinn equates dr. Venom with the spirit of the weasel and quinn has the spirit of the bear So this conflict between dr. Venom and quinn is also a metaphysical conflict between the attributes of those spirit animals We get a brief break from our main story as we go to cobra headquarters Where they have received the message from dr. Venom They now know that dr. Venom is alive and he has a serum that will stabilize the deadly plague toxin In the last issue the plague toxin which was supposed to be harmless to its carrier Did not work because dr. Venom had withheld a key ingredient cobra commander would still like to know how Destro knew that gi joe was going to attack the cobra secret base in the furniture factory in vermont in the last issue Destro just kind of blames that on scarface We the readers know that destro was the one that tipped gi joe off to that operation But destro then had to go and rescue cobra commander because he had unintentionally put the baroness in danger Meanwhile in the bomber somewhere over the gulf of mexico headed toward florida Dr. Venom tells snake eyes that the bomb bay doors are slipping and asks them to lash them closed As snake eyes is stepping over the doors dr. Venom drops him out Of course he does dr. Venom is always trying to harm other people for his own advantage And always trying to work some kind of double cross quinn comes to snake eyes rescue But dr. Venom tilts the plane up causing quinn to slip over the side quinn grabs the edge And just as he is about to grab snake eyes the rope that snake eyes is holding on to snaps Snake eyes grabs quinn's ankle and as quinn tries to haul them both back up into the plane Dr. Venom beats quinn in the head with a wrench the wrench seems to be dr. Venom's weapon of choice quinn calls on strength of the bear strength of the bear The bear He gets back on the plane grabs dr. Venom and he's about to throw him off when snake eyes stops him quinn utters the line that we will hear again in the future A man who whips a dog will pull his own sled someday dr. Venom has tried to kill both quinn and snake eyes on multiple occasions And as long as he is still alive quinn and snake eyes will have to watch their backs We get another brief break from our main story as we go to gi joe headquarters where the joes are discussing The operation in vermont from the last issue the fire at cobra's vermont base destroyed most of the evidence But they did discover that cobra's plot has something to do with printers ink And then at cobra headquarters cobra commander meets with major blood and major blood flashes cobra commander a nazi salute I'm kind of glad they got away from these nazi salutes in later issues cobra commander tells major blood that he has a problem and that problem is Destro elsewhere in cobra headquarters. Destro is revealing his betrayal of cobra commander to the baroness The baroness's loyalty is now split. She will not betray cobra commander But she will also will not betray destro back over the gulf of mexico The bomber is flying low over the water and it spots what appears to be a fishing boat But it is actually a smuggling boat and the boat opens fire on the plane The plane doesn't have any way to return fire and the fire from the boat ruptures a fuel tank on the aircraft and the fuel sprays from the aircraft all over the boat and the Muscle flashes from the machine gun ignite the fuel and the boat explodes Now the plane is leaking fuel and they may not make it to the florida coast They start throwing out everything that isn't nailed down including chopping off the bomb bay doors Based on the illustration it looked like they threw out quinn's machine gun But on closer inspection that looks like a different machine gun Dr. Venom has asked cobra commander to have a lawyer meet him in miami to lighten the weight of the aircraft They even start knocking away the side panels at the miami airport the cobra lawyer that dr. Venom requested has arrived At miami beach people are playing and splashing around in the water and having some fun in the sun Until they see a bomber headed straight for them and they start to run Almost everybody runs but one elderly couple lounging in beach chairs Just sits there and watches the bomber come toward them The old man recognizes the bomber as a Lancaster and that brings his memory back to his world war two service days As the bomber is skipping across the water and crashing toward the beach The old couple calmly have a conversation about the old days this scene may seem kind of odd But i find it very endearing it makes me want to get to know these people better and hearing this old veteran talk You could just imagine that someday in the far future Duke and mrs. Duke could be sitting on a beach having a conversation very much like this one So the bomber comes to a stop on the beach and the poor old lady gets sand in her drink The plane is immediately surrounded by miami police the police immediately arrest the trio But when they get back to the police station the cobra lawyer produces a writ of habeas corpus for the release of dr. Venom The other two however have to go to the jail cell And dr. Venom celebrates with a cigar and that was the end of red eye to miami This issue is pretty good though. Not necessarily my favorite The story focused primarily on quinn snake eyes and dr. Venom We got a little bit of development from the main gi joe team and cobra But right now the comic book is deeply into the quinn and dr. Venom's story arc That's not necessarily a bad thing It was one of the most important story arcs of the early comic book series I do recommend this issue primarily because it is important to that quinn and dr. Venom's story arc Which will lead to one of the most dramatic scenes in the entire comic book series That was a review of gi joe issue number 15. I hope to join you with issue number 16 soon Please don't forget to check me out on social media on facebook and twitter And support the channel on patreon if you can also I have added a toffee account So if you'd like to support the channel by leaving a tip that would certainly help me continue to give you these videos Thank you everyone for watching. I'll see you soon and remember until then only gi joe is gi joe