G.I. Joe (2024) issue 5

« G.I. Joe #5 »
Publisher	Image Comics Skybound Entertainment
First published	March 19, 2025
Cover date	March 2025
Written by	Joshua Williamson
Art by	Tom Reilly
Colors by	Jordie Bellaire
Letters by	Rus Wooton
Editors	Ben Abernathy
Continuity	Energon Universe

After being captured by Cobra, the Joes stage a daring escape. Meanwhile, Cobra Commander modified the Brainwave Scanner with Doctor Monev.

Featured characters

Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

G.I. Joe	Cobra	Others
Duke (3) Baroness (4) Risk (5) Stalker (6) Cover Girl (7) Clutch (12)	Mercer (1) Cobra Troopers (2) Destro (8) Ripper (9) Scrap-Iron (10) Chameleon (11) Cobra Commander (13) Tomax and Xamot (15 & 16)	Archibald Monev (14)

Notes

Covers

• Cover A: Destro holds a hologram of the captured Joes, by Tom Reilly.
• Cover B: Baroness punches Destro, by David Finch, Sandra Hope, and Adriano Lucas.
• Cover C: Baroness, by Ryan Sook.
• Cover D (1:10 Copy Incentive): G.I. Joe charges into battle with Clutch and Cover Girl in a V.A.M.P., half of a connecting cover with issue 7 depicting a battle between them and Cobra, by Karl Kerschl.
• Cover E (1:25 Copy Incentive): Cobra Valkyrie on an explosion background, by Travis Moore and Adriano Lucas.
• Cover F (1:50 Copy Incentive): Design specs for the G.I. Joe V.A.M.P., by E. J. Su.

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Reprints

• G.I. Joe Volume 1: The Cobra Strikes! (June 18, 2025) ISBN 1534328076 / ISBN 978-1534328075
  • Collects issues #1–6.
  • Trade paperback format.

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  Volume 1: The Cobra Strikes! – cover art by Tom Reilly and Jordie Bellaire