LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra has stormed into the No. 1 position on the national DVD sales charts. The action film scored a whopping first-week North American sales tally of 3.8 million discs, 500,000 of them on Blu-ray, during the week ended November 8. Some of those units wound up in as rental items, but the majority were sold directly to consumers, making G.I. Joe the third-biggest title so far this year in first-week sales, behind Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Twilight. G.I. Joe handily trounced the competition on both the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart and the Nielsen VideoScan Blu-ray Disc sales chart. Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 debuted at No. 2 on the overall sales chart but sold only 38.5 percent as many copies as Joe, according to Nielsen VideoScan research. Pelham also debuted at No. 2 on the Blu-ray Disc chart but sold just 29.6 percent as many copies as first-ranked Joe. Those two new theatrical releases also bowed at No. 1 and No. 2 on Home Media Magazines rental chart for the week, but the disparity between their totals wasnt as great. Pelham, which earned $65.5 million in U.S. theaters, generated 78.4 percent as much rental action as G.I. Joe, which had a domestic box-office gross of $150.2 million. 20th Century Foxs Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, the previous weeks top seller and renter, slipped to No. 3 on both the sales and the rental chart. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the previous weeks top Blu-ray Disc seller, also finished in third place.