Between posting my four JoeFest ’25 articles and starting to post my Dallas-Ft. Worth G.I. Joe ’25 articles, Alan Hassenfeld died. I did not know him, and only briefly met him twice, but he appears throughout my book, and his fingerprints are all over G.I. Joe across several decades. It felt appropriate to write something about him here. This is a place where some folks come for G.I. Joe information and opinion, though there are certainly better articles on Hassenfeld from journalists, his friends, and people who worked with him.
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