Image Comics: G.I. Joe A Real American Hero Front Line #16 Security (2003)
 
 
Image Comics with a monthly series, Frontline, features rotating writers and artists telling stories set in different periods of the Joes' history. The series ran for 18 issues and ended in 2003.
 
An internal power struggle in Cobra has Destro and Cobra Commander at odds with each other. Cobra Commander hires a Night Creeper, Josef Ulrich, to kill Destro. The Joes are already on Ulrich's trail after an assassination that they are investigating. Destro & Cobra Commander continue their bickering, and Baroness, Zartan & Storm Shadow are all drawn into the argument. Ulrich shows up to fulfill his contract and is easily killed by Destro. The Joes attack and Cobra Commander concedes to Destro. And the air is cleared