G.I. Joe: America's Elite # 21 2007 Sins of the Mother: Part 1 of 4 pg 6 by Mike Bear & Clayton Brown

G.I. Joe: America's Elite # 21 March 2007
"Sins of the Mother: Part 1 of 4" Page 6
Inks over printed out blue lines
Pencils: Mike Bear
Inks: Clayton Brown
Writer: Mark Powers

A flashback explains how the Baroness and Wraith survived the plane crash and presumably how she became a prisoner of the US Government and then GI Joe. In the present, The Baroness is hunting for her baby. She finds Scalpel and tortures him, the Joes later find him barely alive. Next, the Baroness finds and hires Major Bludd.

Fourteen months ago on Cobra Island, the new Croc Master and several Jungle Vipers are searching the burning wreckage of an airplane blown up by Cobra Commander. (See DD #39) Inside the plane are supposed to be the dead bodies of Wraith and the Baroness. But both have survived and take out the Cobras very easily.

The pregnant Baroness tells Wraith that he needs to take her to Destro. Wraith punches her out saying "with you I can still salvage something from this disaster".

Currently at The Rock, General Colton is debriefing the Joe team. He gives them a brief known history of the Baroness, including information on her deceased brother Eugen, her later activism and how it lead her to Cobra. He talks about her history with Destro and how it is rumored that they are married. He then reveals to the team that she was turned into the US Government and that for months she was interrogated in the very bottom security cells of The Rock. He also reveals that seven months into the incarceration she gave birth to a child and orders where given to take the child from her until she cooperated. She never did. The Baroness doesnt even know the gender of her child. And now she is free.

This issue marks the start of a new creative team of writer Mark Powers and artist Mike Bear.

Destro officially acknowledges his son Alexander Destro as his heir. Introduction and death of Croc Master II.