Did you know that 100% of Fridays lead into Saturdays? That’s a fact you can take to the bank though I don’t know why you would. There’s no money in that fact. It’s just true. Anyway, this isn’t Factual Friday, it’s Flashback Friday so let’s get on to the business at hand, shall we?

It’s Yo Joe time again. As a;ways. the pictures are 100% clickable. That means you can click on them. What happens when you click on them? You get to see them only bigger. It’s neat and highly recommended.

Nektara is Cover Girl. I’ve been basing all the Joe flashbacks on the original Joe card art. To the best of my knowledge Cover Girl was never available carded in the original 80’s Joe toy line. She was only available with the Wolverine tank. The box art had her seated in the tank so there was no full-body shot to work with. I had to cheat and use the card art from the 2013 rerelease, which aped the style of the originals without being quite as good (though I must point out, better than I could have done). Cover Girl was drawn in a really simple pose and yet I had so much trouble putting Nektara into the same pose, mostly because of the legs.

UPDATE: I was looking through yojoe.com for the date of the carded Cover Girl’s release and I stumbled on a picture of a Brazilian carded figure based on Cover Girl from 1984 called Agente Sparta. It’s funny because I feel the card art of the knock-off looks closer to the style of the original Joe card art. It would have been easier to draw to boot.

Here’s the action figure card mockup. I chose to stick with the old card layout instead of trying to replicate the actual 2013 card.

Here’s the comparison to the original mash-up. The original was based on a panel from the Marvel G.I.Joe comic. Throughout her character’s history, Cover Girl has switched between being a blonde and being a redhead. When she appeared in the original G.I.Joe A Real American Hero animated miniseries, she was blonde. Her action figure was a redhead and her later appearances in the cartoon reflected the action figure’s look. In the live action movie, they cast her as a blonde and her 2013 update was left blonde.

That’s all for this week. Next week, be prepared for a walk on the Dark Side! Have a good week folks!