And This Was The Best Plan He Ever Had

"The contingency plan was “kill everybody in the fishing village and leave their bodies where the Joes could find them”. His entire plot in the first issue, which involved kidnapping a top nuclear scientists, was to lure the entire G.I. Joe team to his island hideout, trap them inside a castle/compound and then blow it up with a nuke - The first appearance of Cobra Commander in GI Joe (Volume 1) #1. Art by Herb Trimpe."