The Great Alaskan Land Rush

G.I. Joe and the Oktober Guard need to locate the real Seal of Alaska before Cobra takes control of Alaska and its resources. While searching, the Joes and Red Oktober get captured by 19th-century Cossacks, who bring them to Captain Lukrov, who owns the seal. After he loses it to Cobra, Duke makes a deal with Lukrov to retrieve it.

"Now you know. And knowing is half the battle." The Sunbow run closed every episode with a public-service spot delivered by a Joe character, addressing kids on a real-world hazard or virtue. The cartoon's deeper ethic, threaded into the writing across the run, was that Cobra's worldview was based on fear and the Joes' was based on responsibility.

1. Sunbow Season 1 daily run (1985). 55 episodes aired Monday through Friday in afternoon syndication, September to December 1985.
2. Production code: 600-56
3. Studio: Marvel Productions / Sunbow Productions / Toei Doga
4. Originally aired: December 3, 1985 in afternoon syndication.