SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — G.I. Joe is turning 50. The birthday of what's called the world's first action figure is being celebrated this month by collectors and the toy maker that introduced it ...

Hasbro hopes to grab toy collectors by restoring the legendary "Kung-Fu grip" to some new GI Joe action figures, the toy company announced Wednesday. Hasbro introduced the gimmick in 1974, to ...

G.I. Joe is going into battle — a legal battle, anyway. Toy giant Hasbro is being sued by a man who claims to have created the iconic action figure, and who wants the copyright returned to him ...

GI Joe had to have the scar if he wanted to live. I ... "Kung-Fu Grips were, to me, firecracker magnets," says Columbia Joe collector Thor Sadler.) ...

Into the '70s, G.I. Joes featured "lifelike hair" and "kung-fu grip" and were outfitted with scuba gear to save the oceans and explorer's clothing for discovering mummies.

G.I. Joe is going into battle — a legal battle, anyway. Toy giant Hasbro is being sued by a man who claims to have created the iconic action figure, and who wants the copyright returned to him ...