And before someone starts gushing about how much better the comic was let me remind you of my all time favorite plot twist.
When Firefly SOMEHOW RETURNED after rotting for years inside that volcano, and in the same breath revealed that, oh, I was ACTUALLY an Arashikage ninja master all this time, you know that guy whose face was blurred in all those old photos? Ha ha, I just moved my head any time someone tried to photograph me, those suckers! What's that, you were there in Japan and don't remember me? Oh but see: I can also blur my face in real life too! I'm such a great ninja you see. I just never used any of these abilities the last time you saw me alive, because I'm just so disciplined I wouldn't drop my cover like that.
And this was a good while after Cobra Commander had SOMEHOW RETURNED from the same volcano, leaving Firefly and others corpses behind - oh but it wasn't Firefly, he was just using Serpentor's body as a decoy because he PLANS EVERYTHING OUT. Thankfully the comic was cancelled before Larry had time to resurrect Serpentor as well.
None of it made any sense. Larry Hama himself must have been dying from cringe writing it.
It's possible that when he was killing off characters (like fans often requested) he was overestimating his influence over the toy division, or he falsely assumed that when the toy company stopped selling a figure, they'd never bring the character back in another wave and want the new costume to be shilled in the comic.