While scrolling through the social media groups, mainly the "little" Joes groups, every once in awhile someone brings up "vintage" G.I.Joe. In the "modern" G.I.Joe era post-"25th anniversary" style and size of things it is still pretty common for fans and collectors to be just as likely to be talking about the A Real American Hero years.
The really original 12" G.I.Joe is not as often brought up. Someone brought up the 1967 GI Nurse, basically, asking if anyone knows anything. I don't know anything. But I do still have some older collector publications and magazines from back in the day. I was just contemplating whether or not I should just toss these, too.
Anyway, I thought I would do a quick flip through the stack as I remember coming across something about the GI Nurse back in the day. That's all I remember, and there could be many articles in this stack that has more information. I found one mention alongside the 1997 upcoming release of GI Jane in this quick run through the Toy Trader stack.
I thought I would do a quick scan, it wasn't exactly much of a GI Nurse figure examining article, but I thought it might be interesting just to bring more G.I.Joe information to the topic. The article is from the perspective of the Barbie collecting realm, so staying in scale, and the article stating that GI Jane is only the 2nd G.I.Joe female figure, I can see with the internet collector culture where some person on the internet will have an exploding head and start laying out something like, "but like totally Scarlett and Lady Jaye and Jinx, etc....." On top of that, the article, originally printed in Toy Trader, which was a publication printed alongside Antique Trader, the article, while short, does mention other aspects of the world, such as what was happening in the 1960's. When people in the group are interestingly vocal about the weird sci fi gun with Classified Roadblock, they might just lose their minds at the mere mention of "feminist" in the article or even make comments about how the GI Jane photo in the article is totally not a Marvel Comic skin tight looking costumed sexy helicopter pilot.
Anyway, after reading through the previous social media responses, such as, "the figure was a flop," I decided to not bother adding it into the discussion. The original topic poster seemed to me to almost be wanting to know how much money he can squeeze out of whatever 1967 GI Nurse item he had come upon. That's fine, too.
There's value, no doubt, but the internet makes it seem like no one really wants to get in on a hobby or is really interested in learning more about something, rather is more interested in seeing how much it is worth. Like some sort of quick flip investment. (as I entertain the idea of building my collection to a larger size, the eBay prices and item conditions I find a little out of whack.
