GI Joe poster showing variations
Mr. Todd
columns of Joes in different costumes? I'd love to find it or a good
digital image of the original.
Todd
Venice, CA
Carin
poster? (I think it was made in the late 80's though...)
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Crusader
http://pweb.netcom.com/~corry/joe/misc/gijoeposter.jpeg
Kevin
ITFC #0094
http://corry.home.netcom.com/joe
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LuckyAtLoveAgain
anyone know where one can be obtained??
>This one?
>http://pweb.netcom.com/~corry/joe/misc/gijoeposter.jpeg
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>co...@ix.netcom.com (Crusader)
KevHead
Don't know who has the original files but man if I could get a hold of
the original file, I know a printer who could run off copies ( with
the originators approval and for a fee of course Less than $30 too)
This has been one of the most widely talked about posters in Joe-Dom
for awhile.Shame whomever has the original templates has not made more
of them.
The printing costs would be minimal compared to the number of joeheads
that want it.
Kudos to whomever made the original.
On 30 Jul 2003 12:27:23 GMT, luckyatl...@aol.com
(LuckyAtLoveAgain) wrote:
KevHead
"Have fun and always play with your toys"
JOEZETA
show in Rhode Island,,,its a must have for the Door of your "Joe Room"
Joezeta
Gijoebook
Itw as done by a fellow named Craig Hedges, a long-time collector of GI Joe and
Captain Action. He doesn't have many left, and sells them occasionally on
eBay....so they are still available. I'm not sure of Craig's handle...so check
for "GI Joe poster" and you'll find them with patience.
-DDD
Derryl D. DePriest gijo...@aol.comREMOVETHIS
It hasn't been updated in a long while, but feel free to stop by the G.I. Joe
Clubhouse: http://members.aol.com/gijoebook/index.htm
Fufi
(Craig Hedges)
Here is the information you requested:
³Old Soldiers Never Die. Your Mon Threw Them Away.²
Limited Edition poster designed and published by Craig Hedges.
Edition of 1000 published in 1992
Printed in 6 colors p;us gloss varnish on premium cover stock.
Size: 26² wide x 38² high
20 individually photographed classic 60¹s GI Joes/vehicles
Each figure professionally photographed on 4x5 transparency film and
individually color separated and stripped for accurate color reproduction.
Printed by George Rice and Sons/Los Angeles, CA
The price is $49.95 + 8.00
shipping. Unfortunately the shipping has to be on the high side. This is an
easily damaged item no matter how well I pack them and after UPS delivered a
few crushed with tire tread marks on them I stopped selling them by mail.
My solution has been to ship them in packed in pvc pipe which makes them
heavy to ship but even UPS hasn¹t damaged one packed that way!
If you would like one, send payment to:
Craig Hedges
8080 East Tether Trail
Scottsdale, AZ 85255
As I travel frequently on business, it may take up to two weeks for you to
receive your poster after I receive payment (checks OK).
Here¹s the story on the poster:
Many people have asked me how this poster came to be. Here¹s the story:
I am an art director by profession, and collect the favorite toys of my
childhood in the 60¹s: GI Joe, Captain Action, Major Matt Mason and Zeriods.
I had always wanted to design a poster of GI Joe that I could frame and
display. At the time there were no books or reproductions like the Timeless
Collection or Masterpiece Editions. I sketched out a concept and came up the
headline which is a common lament among collectors. My Mom actually never
threw them away--she sold them in a garage sale. She kind of has an attitude
about it now. She says, ³Had I known I would have kept them! At least I
saved your Hot Wheels and electric trains!²
I happened to be directing a long, tedious studio shoot for my client,
Acura. Shooting car interiors and details for brochures takes weeks in a big
dark studio. The photographer I had hired happened to be a collector and we
discovered a common bond. He had a garage full of LGB trains. I showed him
my poster concept sketch and he said ³Why don¹t you bring them down to the
studio? We could shoot them in our down time and I want to see them!² So he
set up a table top with a 4x5 camera over in a corner and I set each figure
up and we shot them one by one. The hardest part was getting them styled
just right so they looked good, held the accessories and wouldn¹t fall over!
Let¹s just say it took some delicate ironing, steaming and creative use of
sticky putty to hold things in place! I think the photographer was really
just trying to keep me out of his hair.
The hardest part was selecting which figures to shoot and then I had more
than I could use so I had to make a final cut. I wanted to show all of what
I considered the classic 60¹s Joesnot necessarily the rarest--but the ones
near and dear to the hearts of those who grew up with them.
The background color and pattern were designed to match the original Action
Marine packaging. At first I was going to use the woodgrain pattern from the
Action Soldier but the brighter yellow made for more contrast and an overall
greater impact. The typeface also is as close as I could find to the
original type on the 60¹s boxes that reads, ³America¹s movable fighting
man.²
The poster was color separated, stripped up and printed by George Rice and
Sons
printing in Los Angeles.They do extremely high caliber worklots of art
posters and you¹ve no doubt seen their work on one-sheets at the movie
theatre. 1000 copies on 100 lb. cover stock were sheet fed on an 8-color
Komori press. Seven ink units were used: 4-color process, custom yellow
background, custom tan pattern and an overall varnish. There was only one
run and that¹s all there will ever be, so you have one of 1000 made.
The first time they were offered for sale was at the 2nd L.A. GI Joe
convention put on by James DeSimone at the L.A. airportI don¹t remember the
date. Six or seven years ago, I guess.
Other fun stuff to know:
Quite a few of these are framed in offices in the halls of Hasbro!
Lucky people at the Pawtucket GI Joe show happened to be at my table when
Don Levine (GI Joe¹s creator) stopped by and started autographing posters.
He had already received a nice quantity from me as my thanks for creating
such a fond childhood memory.
John Michlig used the poster as an example of the kind of project he had in
mind when he was pitching the Masterpiece Edition concept to Chronicle
books.
On the inside cover of the Masterpiece Edition box the poster headline is
quoted as an ³old saying among GI Joe collectors². John had them actually
call me for permission to use the line!
If you look carefully on the Scramble Pilot¹s clipboard, you will see some
writing in pencil on the paper. It is an ³Ammo List² scribbled by its
original owner. That¹s how it came to me--the photographer suggested I take
off the top sheet so it would be ³clean²--no way! I like to think whoever
wrote that as a young boy has one of these posters.
My thanks to good buddy Frank Paur who lent me his German, Japanese and
Russian Soldiers of the World for the photo shoot. Mine didn¹t have the
medals. He is an animation director and worked on Batman the Animated
Series, HBO¹s Spawn and is currently working on the new X-Men animated
series.
Frank and fellow collector Calvin Yip critiqued my rough concept for the
poster helping me decide which Joes to include. They convinced me to change
the original headline: ³Hey buddy--wanna play GI Joes!²
My intent was for all the figures to be completely outfitted as originally
sold. I forgot to take the white T-shirt off the Shore Patrol that Frank had
put on Œcause it looked better. I had shot the stretcher to put behind the
Medic but it was too tall.
Several of these figures in the poster were purchased by me from the
original owner. A friend at work told me her boyfriend had received boxes of
his old stuff from his mother who had sold the family home and moved to
Florida. She told me he had lots of those GI Joes ²just like the one on
your shelf²all over his apartment and he¹s running an ad in the Recycler to
get rid of them. It was my best find ever! He had tons of stuff all in great
condition and he sold it all to me so he could get new wheels and tires for
his passiona Œ68 Camaro. The Frogman/Sea Sled, Black Heavy Weapons, Deep
Sea Diver and motorcycle are from that collection. My one regret is I
couldn¹t fit the panther jet I got from him in the design!
The Astronaut and capsule were my favorite as a child and the first GI Joe
in my collection as an adult. I spotted them high on a shelf at an antique
store I wandered into while waiting for my wife to finish shopping. I
couldn¹t bring myself to pay the asking price of $75.00 (it was in the box!)
but I found in under the Christmas tree that year. As I was unwrapping it I
commented to my wife that she had gotten me the same thing I got for
Christmas 25 years ago!
Well that¹s probably more than you wanted to know but that¹s the story.
Someday, if I get around to it, I¹d love to do a companion piece that has
all the ones I couldn¹t fit in this one!
Best Regards,
Craig Hedges