Yes, this is real. Rocky Balboa, the Philadelphia boxer, created by Sylvester Stallone, for the 1976 Rocky Rocky Sports Film, was once included as a member of GIO. Rocky's powerful strokes seem to be able to take them-they have ideally fooled to combat the high-tech international terrorist organization Cobra. As such, he became a member of the team with miraculous ultra-soldiers such as Blatorch, Gung-ho, snake eyes and, ah, football.

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The GI OEO version was part of the popular rebranding of the 1982 property. The new one was then completely "real American hero" and is deeply familiar with individuals who are now pressuring 50 years. It was a massive cross-media company, launched by Hasbro as a means of downloading much of the toy market. The "real American hero" also included a newly relevant toys, which boasted new figures at Menagerie of Cartoonish Charics that stood only three and three-quarters of high (GIO OEO's original dolls of 1964 were 12 inches). This new brand was further Tied with a series of comics with marvel And, of course, the well-known, full animated series of the 80s.

This was at a time when advertising of toys was still strongly regulated, and TV-based TV shows only became de Rigew. Hence, the "GIO OEO" comics Marvel have become a key piece of the marketing puzzle. Indeed, the comics preceded the TV series for a year.

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Elsewhere, one of the new exciting features of the toys was a file card, a small, wallet -sized collector piece of cardboard, which came with each action. The file card, such as a baseball card, cited the vital character statistics (code name, function, file name, birthplace, etc.), and the children were encouraged to cut and save them. For those who have not bought each toy, Marvel Comics manually reprinted file cards in editions of the ministers "OEO: a row of battle", which was first released in 1986.

And yes, one of the file cards printed in the "battle" was for Rocky Balboa.

By 1986, when the "Battle of the Battle" was announced, Hasbro's "real American hero" brand has already proved to be massively successful. Cross promotion between comics, toys and TV shows has made many properties of the ultra-vessels of the property to feel like a legitimately important part of culture (if you were nine).

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Also, by 1986, Stallone wrote and starred in The first four "rocky" movies (Moreover, directed by the second, third and fourth records), making Rocky Balboa's character a very visible part of the American Zeithgist. "Rocky IV" was particularly overwhelmed, as it fought between Rocky and Superrusian Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), serving as an open jingy symbol for the military position of the Reagan-V-S.-S.. Where the original "Rocky" was sad and down, "Rocky IV" was strange and silly. It was that version of Rocky that fits easily into the equally the "OEO" universe.

As such, the authors of comics, Larry Hama and Herb Trimpe have published a file card for Rocky Balboa in number 2 of the "Battle". The map of Rocky's drawing that did not look like Stallone, declaring it an instructor for Oesos's personal struggle. The image of the card Randown said that Rocky Balboa, a world -renowned awards award, was secretly set on fire with Oesos only for his country's fame. He received "without a special salary, there are no additional privileges, without publicity".

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The file card was made while Marvel and Stallone were still negotiating a deal. After all, the deal failed, but a period of bad timing meant that the "order of the battle" #2 had already went pressure before it happened. As such, Rocky was open and canonical declared. The declaration, however, lasted only until the next issue, at which Marvel Comics issued a withdrawal.

The withdrawal is read as follows:

"The character of Rocky Balboa (code name: Rocky) was incorrectly included as a member of OEOat 'Order to combat gio oeo'Number #2 on page 10. Rocky is not and has never been a member of OEO.

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The decision to drop Rocky as the character of GI OEO has much to do with a series of toys on Rambo, outlined by Coldo at the same time. Ramon Rambo, another character known by Sylvester StalloneIt was almost identical to them OEO in relation to its ultra-American symbolism to that point. (Similar to Rocky, Rambo on Stallone made his debut in the unusual and serious "first blood" in 1982 before his films were overwhelmed and jingy.) As such, Rambo's toys were to serve as a direct competitor to "GIO". Including Rocky as a "GIO" character, it would simply make things confusing and saturated in the market, so Hasbro came out of the way. A representative from Hasbro came out on a record claiming that Stallone's agents only became greedy.

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Although people in Hasbro have already designed rocky action figures by then, investing was abolished ... Mostly. In 1987, a year after the rocky debacle, Hasbro introduced Big Boa. The "real American hero" character, Big Boa, was a boxer in a mask that came with removable bracelets in boxing and punching bag. .

Neither Rocky nor Stallone appeared in the movie "GIO".