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Action Figure Overview: G.I. Joe - Eels Cobra Frogman (Hasbro, 1985)

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G.I. Joe's enemy: Cobra Frogman "Eels" (Hasbro, 1985) 1985 was an awesome year for GI Joe!  Hasbro gave us some of the best bad guys of the entire Real American Hero run with The Crimson Guard, Snow Serpents, and the first three Dreadnoks!  Even with all of those awesome new characters from Hasbro, the Cobra Eel was definitely one of the figures that caught my eye right from the first time I saw the new figures pictured on the back of my Footloose card!  Just from that tiny picture, I knew I wanted to add this guy to my Cobra team. Cobra Eel: Ready for Action! At that point, we didn't have many underwater figures.  Torpedo was a great figure from wave 2, but my Deep Six figure who came out in wave 3 spent most of his time living in a shoe box and rarely saw any action at all.  Torpedo needed someone to fight against and the Cobra Eels fit that role perfectly! GI Joe: Cobra Eels file card According to their file cards, the Eels are Cobra's demolition experts.  They