to disable Wingfield's nuclear bomb. Later, he is part of a Joe team keeping Cobra Commander prisoner in the Rockies. A flashback in a later issue reveals Grunt was a soldier on the mission that led to Snake Eyes' unintentional scarring. College days As more new characters were introduced, Grunt was shunted into the background. In issue #55, Grunt leaves the Joe Team to go to Georgia Tech. He encourages Clutch, who had come to see him off, to keep in touch via his mother's address. He later meets and befriends a female ex-soldier, Lola. When Stalker’s team was captured in Borovia by the local militia, Grunt contacts Breaker and gets the number for the current Joe headquarters. He talks to Roadblock and offers to go on the rescue operation, reasoning that being out of service will help with 'plausible deniability'. Roadblock tells Grunt there will be no rescue operation, 'official, covert or otherwise'. An 'otherwise' op later rescues the imprisoned officers. When most of the Joe Team is suspended and imprisoned after the disastrous events of the Cobra Civil War, Grunt and his girlfriend, Lola, follow Roadblock's call to help save their friends. They join with several Joe members who had escaped the government and gone underground. They meet at the house of Adele Burkhardt, the peace activist Grunt helped to rescue in issue #1. General Hawk and Joe supporter General Hollingsworth are being held in a hospital filled with a murderous American military faction. Unexpected interference by Destro helps save the generals and clear the Joe team of all charges. Grunt appears in issue #145 and explains that he has gained an engineering degree. His former teammates expresses their wish that he come back to join them. Duke encourages him to stick with his current life, as society needs more people building things instead of destroying them. The comics never had Grunt rejoin the Joe Team, going in a different direction from the toy’s storyline. Devil’s Due comics With the renewed threat of Cobra, former Joe team members are called back into action. The rank-filling Greenshirts, with a uniform very similar to the one Grunt wore. Grunt was not among the first to heed the call to duty. Readers would not know the Devil’s Due comics had followed the toy’s storyline of Grunt returning to the Joe Team until issue #24 where he is listed as among the