For those who don't know, Mike is an icon in the GI Joe world. Mike was one of the early promoters of Hasbro sanctioned GI Joe conventions, from 1994 to 1997. Mike had many contacts inside the creative world of GI Joe and acquired tons of prototypes from former employees. His best explanation of its origin was that it likely came from Kirk Bozigian, Hasbro's Vice President of boys' toys. Mike purchased bulk lots of GI Joe items from Kirk and the mystery figure was thought to be among those items.