Mini-comic via motuminicomics.com

My last post offered a MOTU Mini-Comics Checklist, so in this post I wanted to put together a MOTU Action Figure Checklist.

This information was pulled from a visual list of all of the Masters of the Universe figures, via this excellent webpage: http://pages.suddenlink.net/soundwavempl/motuvfigs/motuvfigs.html

However, while going through the two lists, I noticed that the mini-comics list begins at 1981, while the action figure list begins at 1982.

Can someone verify: did the first wave of He-Man figures hit stores in 1981 or 1982?