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Blowtorch
Item # 6421
Regular Carded Assortment
Flamethrower E-4
(Army corporal)
SN: RA527341209
File Name: Corp. Timothy P. Hanrahan
Primary MOS: Infantry Special Weapons
POB: Tampa, FL
Secondary MOS: Small-Arms Armorer
Appearance: red hair; yellow shirt, pants, gloves, belt, and boots with orange-red pads on chest, arms, legs, and feet
Cartoon appearance: Same, but with darker red padding and a black breath mask like Rip Cord's; occasionally seen with transparent, black-rimmed goggles and no mask
Accessories: yellow helmet with lights on sides (with or without holes); yellow face mask with hose; yellow fuel-tank backpack with hole for cord; olive-green M-7 flamethrower with cord.
Filecard Information: Blowtorch is thoroughly familiar with all military incendiary devices and flame projection equipment. To Blowtorch, the use of fire in warfare is a science that predates the bow and arrow. Qualified expert: M-7 Flamethrower; M-16; M-1911A1 Auto Pistol.
"Blowtorch can't sleep unless he's near a smoke detector. Cigarette smoke drives him bananas! He always sits near the exit in movietheaters and refuses to live anywhere where he can't safely jump out the windows. This is not irrational to him. These are actions based on intimate knowledge."
Versions: 1. 1984 2.
2002 (Joe vs. Cobra) 3.
2003 (Built to Rule)
Variations: The Blowtorch figure had either black or red eyes and eyebrows, and the hardness of the flamethrower's plastic varies. The figure appearing in the 1984 catalog and commercials had open goggles and a black hose attaching to his mask.
Mold: UNIQUE!
Toy notes: Featured in 1984's "new Joes" commercial, manning the
Mountain Howitzer. Recolored versions were released in Argentina as Antorcha, Back-Stop, and T.N.T.
Cartoon notes: Voiced by Michael Bell. Irish accent. Spoke 22 lines in 7 episodes. First appeared and spoke in TROC 2. Total appearances: 14. Blowtorch was seen operating the Polar Battle Bear and a Cobra CLAW.
Prioritized appearance list: Operation Mind Menace, Red Rocket's Glare, Lights! Camera! Cobra!, Cobra CLAWs Are Coming to Town. One line: The Revenge of Cobra parts 2-3, The Synthoid Conspiracy I-II, The Traitor I-II. Silent: Twenty Questions, Lasers in the Night, The Most Dangerous Thing in the World, The Movie part 5. Blowtorch is included in the opening sequence of TROC.
Comic notes: Blowtorch appeared in 9 issues between 1985 and 1988: #32, 33, 37, 38, 48-50, 76, and Yearbook #2.
