Voice actress Mary McDonald Lewis Storyboard Director Doug Vandegrift Story editor/writer Buzz Dixon Story editor/writer Flint Dille Story editor/writer Steve Gerber Writer Christy Marx Back

Christy Marx wrote the episodes Captive of Cobra (Parts 1,2), Sythoid Conspiracy (Parts 1,2) and Countdown for Zartan. She went on to be the story editor for another Marvel-Sunbow Cartoon, Jem and has been incredibly helpful to the Jem fans. Currently, she is writing for animation and live action, with scripts for Babylon 5, Hypernauts, and many other shows. She has a web page at http://www.moonfire.to What were your first impressions of the GI Joe cartoon. Did you think that it would be as popular as it was? I was thrilled and delighted to be working on it as it was a major series (already quite popular) and a hard-action series. It allowed me to strut my stuff as an action writer. I really enjoyed that. In your scripts, how did you decide what characters to use, or were theyspecified by Hasbro or Sunbow? Do you have a favorite GI Joe character? Because there were so many characters, the story editors had to assign specific characters to each premise in order to avoid duplication and make sure each character got some exposure. My favorite characters were the women. I love being able to write strong female characters :) Did you ever watch the episodes you wrote on tv? What did you think? Were there any changes? I have the episodes on tape, so I have seen them. I was quite happy with the way they turned out. They didn't make a lot of changes to my scripts, except to trim here and there since I wrote such long scripts. It's been so long, I don't remember any specifics of what might have been changed. Do you know if there was a third season planned after GI Joe the Movie or was that intended to be the end of the series? I don't know. By that time, I was completely absorbed with developing and writing JEM. Were there any differences writting for DIC's version of GI Joe? The biggest difference were due budgetary restrictions. The DIC budgets were so tight, we were only allowed to use a small number of voices. I was handed an entire group of characters around which to write those episodes, which ate up most of the allowable voices! The real trick was trying to write the script with only a few other people able to speak. Did you ever think of doing a GI Joe & Jem crossover? Now there's a bizarre idea! No, it never occurred to me. Not that it would have been up to me. I can't imagine Hasbro going along with something like that. They consider the boy toy and girl toy markets to be completely separate from one another. We'd like to thank Ms Marx for her time and her work on GI Joe and Jem.