I wondered what had happened to Billy, who made an interesting foil to Cobra Commander. I now find from wikipedia that in "America's Elite" CC shot him with a poisoned bullet (which is "Ick!" enough) but then hung his corpse from a flag-pole as a sign of breaking ties with the past, and there isn't enough "ick" in the world for THAT one.
Every time I see a lame stunt like that pulled I hear John Shea's Lex Luthor's comment from "Lois and Clark" in my mind "I hate having to have someone killed, it's like announcing to the world that you can't solve a problem creatively"