GI Joe Through the Decades Signature Board

The 2010 GI Joe Collectors Convention in Providence, Rhode Island was memorable for many reasons.  The Hasbro Tour, the chance to meet up and hang out with old friends, and just having the opportunity to be around all things GI Joe is something every collector should do at least once it their life.  But what really sticks out to me is the one of a kind collectible I picked up at the Awards Dinner auction on Saturday night.

Due to gambling regulations in the state of Rhode Island the usual casino night and auction was replaced by a regular auction, with the proceeds going to Hasbro Childrens Hospital.  Looking over the usual line up of interesting and unique items up for auction, one thing in particular caught my eye.  The day before at the tour of Hasbro Headquarters the different stations of the tour were marked by signs roughly 12"x18".  Each sign was labelled with a description of the part of the tour you were currently at, Design Shop, Model Shop, etc.  Out of the ten or so stations on the tour, four of the signs were brought to the dinner as auction items.  I knew the second I saw them that I wanted them, only I didn't know if they were going to auction them off individually or as a set.  I set sight my sights on getting them as I made my way back to my seat as the auction began.

Long story short, at the end of the auction I was lucky enough to walk away with the sign to "Station-2 Timeline GI Joe Through The Decades".  The sign had already been signed by John Warden, Desing Manager for Hasbro, and another person whose signature I don't recognize, if you know, drop me a line.  That got me to thinking, this convention had a lot of Hasbro employees past ans present in attendance, why not make this sign really represent GI Joe through the decades and get it signed by as many as possible?  So on the last day of the convention I went around and got as many people who worked on GI Joe as I could to sign it, and I have been getting them to sign it ever since.

As of today, this is what it looks like:

 

 And here are the names of the signers, as well as the year I got them to sign it.  So, from the top we have:

Mary MacDonald-Lewis (2013) The voice of Lady Jaye of the Sunbow GI Joe Cartoon.

Bill Ratner (2013) The voice of Flint on the Sunbow GI Joe cartoon.

Robert Atkins (2013) Artist on the IDW GI Joe Comic.

Ron Wagner (2012) Artist on the Marvel and IDW GI Joe comics.

Virginia Perry Gardner (2010) Scuplted the heads for the GI Nurse and the GI Joe Soldiers of the World figures.

Larry Selmon (2010) Painter who has done boxes for the GI Joe Classic Collection and GI Joe Collectors Convention boxes.

Dwight Stall (2010) Hasbro designer.

Larry Hama (2010) Writer of GI Joe comics for Marvel, Devil's Due, and IDW, also worte most of the filecards for th 3 3/4" Real American Hero figures.

Sam Petrucci (2010) Painter who did many of the vintage boxes from the 1960's.

Ron Rudat (2010) Artist who designed many of the early Real American Hero figures.

John Warden (2010) GI Joe Brand Manager.

Sam Speers (2010) Designer of the orignal 11 1/2" GI Joe body.

Bob Prupis (2010) Vice Presidentof Boys Toys and one of the major players in the relaunch of GI Joe as a 3 3/4" action figure.

Janet Downing Taylor (2010) Credited with coming up with the name "GI Joe".

Norman Jacques (2010) Package designer for the early GI Joe figures and accessories.

Kirk Bozigian (2010) Marketing Director for GI Joe A Real American Hero.

There are three I can't identify, if you know whose signatures they are please let me know so I can give them proper credit.

 The Mystery Signatures

I've tried to get as many signatures from all form of GI Joe that I could, the only media I am missing is from the GI Joe movies, and I'm working on that!  I'm also trying to get a few more key signatures from GI Joe's past, such as:

Derryl DePreist

Alan Hassenfeld

Don Levine

If anyone has any connections, hook me up!