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| - Though these 88 issues are not without the occasional internal retcon or alternate future, they form a single long and mostly cohesive story. The Marvel Comics continuity is not a single timeline, however. Several different media have added to or continued the story in differing and often contradictory ways: An attempt to establish a clear chronological timeline for both the US and UK material is here. Below is the desired hierarchy layout for use in the Fiction sections on character pages.
- The G.I. Joe comics represent the longest running continuity for a comic based on a toy line property. The original run was started by Marvel Comics in 1982 and ended in 1994. There was a break of about 6 years before the comics rights was picked up again by another company, Devil's Due Publishing. When the new comics were published for the second time, Devil's Due utilized the same continuity that was started by Marvel Comics. After purchasing away the rights to the comics stories by Marvel, Hasbro has also begun their contributions to this continuity. In 2010, IDW Publishing invited Larry Hama to pick up where he left off with G.I. Joe #155, allowing him to tell the continuing story of G.I. Joe the way he wants to.
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| - The G.I. Joe comics represent the longest running continuity for a comic based on a toy line property. The original run was started by Marvel Comics in 1982 and ended in 1994. There was a break of about 6 years before the comics rights was picked up again by another company, Devil's Due Publishing. When the new comics were published for the second time, Devil's Due utilized the same continuity that was started by Marvel Comics. After purchasing away the rights to the comics stories by Marvel, Hasbro has also begun their contributions to this continuity. In 2010, IDW Publishing invited Larry Hama to pick up where he left off with G.I. Joe #155, allowing him to tell the continuing story of G.I. Joe the way he wants to. On the MUX, only the G.I. Joe comics from 1982 and 1994 are strictly canon, although ideas have been borrowed from both the Devil's Due continuity and the IDW continuation.
- Though these 88 issues are not without the occasional internal retcon or alternate future, they form a single long and mostly cohesive story. The Marvel Comics continuity is not a single timeline, however. Several different media have added to or continued the story in differing and often contradictory ways:
* Marvel UK concurrently reprinted the Marvel US stories, and also created new "filler" issues to fit in between events of the original US material. Some contradictions exist between the UK and US material, and the US crossover with G.I. Joe, though reprinted much later, was ignored in favor of a different set of stories. Unique to the UK material is an ever-evolving future, due to the actions of rampant time traveling characters; that future was eventually negated by events in the present, forming an alternate branch timeline. The later Marvel UK material is also home to a second major timeline divergence, namely the Earthforce stories.
* Marvel US's Generation 2 comic book series, published in the early 1990s, directly continued the story of the original Marvel US series. Again, differing material in the UK was published, but these two series are mostly irreconcilable, if very similar.
* Beast Wars is seen by many fans to take place in the far future of the Marvel Comics continuity. Beast Wars was the first non-Marvel Comics material to reference the creator-god Primus, and although Beast Wars and its sequel Beast Machines mention mostly Generation One animated continuity events, it has been stated by the writers that the Generation One that occurs in the Beast Wars's past is a unknown mishmash of previous material. (Suffice to say that most Generation One continuities seem to move towards Beast Wars.) For the purposes of this wiki, Beast Wars is always separated under its own continuity header.
* Most recently, the Classics fiction created by Fun Publications takes place in the Marvel Comics continuity, but it ignores both the Marvel UK material and the Generation 2 comic books, creating yet another divergent splinter timeline. An attempt to establish a clear chronological timeline for both the US and UK material is here. Below is the desired hierarchy layout for use in the Fiction sections on character pages.
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