The fanatical, hooded or masked supreme leader of the Cobra organization. A ruthless and paranoid demagogue who built a private army and a terrorist state from nothing, Cobra Commander wants nothing less than total world domination and trusts no one, including his own lieutenants Destro and the Baroness. "Cobra... retreat! RETREAT!"
Cobra Commander is a Cobra operative in the original G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero line. First released as a Hasbro carded action figure in 1982, with 7 distinct figure versions produced across the 1982 to 1994 ARAH run.
Cobra Commander appears in 25 episode synopses across the Sunbow (1983 to 1987) and DiC (1989 to 1992) runs, first appearing in Sunbow's "The M.A.S.S. Device, Part 5: A Stake in the Serpent's Heart" (1983). Full screencap and continuity review pending.