NIGHT VULTURES are the airborne covert insertion and recon specialists of the Cobra legions. Given no formal training, the candidates for the Night Vultures' programme are dropped with their gliders from transports over shark-infested waters at least five miles from land. Whoever makes it back is awarded the Night Vulture badge and gets to keep the personal effects of the "drop-outs!"
Night Vulture is a Cobra operative in the original G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero line. First released as a Hasbro carded action figure in 1991, with 1 distinct figure version produced across the 1982 to 1994 ARAH run.
Night Vulture did not appear by name in the Sunbow or DiC cartoon series synopses. Original Hasbro file-card lore and Marvel ARAH comics appearances are the primary characterization sources.