John Cooper - Action Force (GI Joe) London In Peril

John Cooper was one of the Main artists on the Battle Action Force comic book here in the UK, also famous for illustrating Johnny Red in the book.

I was able to get in touch with Mark Spencer here on there boards (many thanks Mark!) and I was able to commission a painting from him. I asked fro a scene from London in Peril where Cobra invades London and a few months later I get it back in the post (along with prelim sketch).

Pretty fantastic and a definite grail piece for me - an amazing painted scene from the artist of my favourite story from my favourite comic when i was growing up - and the book that definitely got me hooked on a lifetime of Comics & GI Joe.

This is what I asked for: You’re the artist, so I will leave it up to you what works – but the basics of what I would like to see is:
• A London cityscape with the Action Force & Cobra doing battle
• Big Ben getting blown up by Roboskull (red flying skull ship) in the background (a call back to a cover from the time – which I’ve included as reference)
Some of the detail you may or may not want to include are listed below (I’m listing more than I think you can fit in so you can choose what to leave out!).
• Cobra Characters
• Action Force characters (in order of preference to include): Duke, Scarlett, Gung Ho, Mutt, Roadblock, Recondo, Stalker
• Cobra troopers who have fallen in the battle
• I think that that Westminster Bridge or Parliament square might be a good setting