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Articles created
Comic stories
- Missing in Action
- Hunted!
- Under Fire!
- Distant Thunder!
- Resurrection!
- Burning Sky!
- Hunters
- Fire on High!
- Doomsday for Nebulos
- Stylor's Story
- The Final Conflict
- Grudge Match!
- Legion of the Lost!
- Meltdown! - in my humble opinion the best story ever!
- Deadly Games!
- The Wind of Change!
- Firebug!
- Dry Run!
- All in the Minds!
- The Saga of the Transformers — So Far!
- Way of the Warrior
- Survival Run
- A Savage Place!
- Underworld!
- Demons!
- Dawn of Darkness
- Fallen Star!
- The Quest!
- Trigger-Happy!
- Starting Over!
- Two Steps Back!
- Break-Away!
- Once upon a Time...
- Life in the Slow Lane
- Snow Fun!
- Flashback!
- The Bad Guy's Ball!
- The Living Nightlights!
- Cry Wolf!
- Wolf in the Fold!
- Where Wolf?
- Bugged!
- Internal Affairs!
- The House that Wheeljack Built!
- Divide and Conquer!
- The 4,000,000 Year Itch!
- Makin' Tracks!
- Shut Up!
- Manoeuvres!
- Assassins
- External Forces!
- The Lesser Evil
- Inside Story!
- Front Line!
- End of the Road!
- Dreadwind's Xmas!
- War Without End
- War Zone
Creators
- Stuart Bartlett
- Sheila Cranna
- Gary Gilbert
- John Grant
- Steve Parkhouse
- Tim Perkins
- Euan Peters
- Stuart Place
- John Ridgway
- Mike Scott
- Helen Stone
- Lew Stringer
Miscellaneous
A note on Marvel Comics dating
There is often a lot of confusion over exactly when some of the issues of both the US and UK comics went on sale. The cover dates can sometimes add to the confusion. This note aims to explain things as best as possible.
US comic
When the comic began in 1984, Marvel issues were normally cover dated four months ahead of their going on sale. This was partially a hangover from the days of fierce newsstand competition when each company tried to make its comics look newer than its rivals and partially a mechanism to compensate for slower distribution on newsstands and overseas sales.
As a result of this although issue #1 is cover dated September it went on sale in May. This is supported by the first Usenet post about Transformers which was posted by Ted Nolan to net.comics on May 22nd 1984.
In 1989 Marvel decided to rationalise things by moving to a system where the cover date was only two months in advance. In order to achieve this issues released in August 1989 have the cover date "Mid November", those in September 1989 have "December" and those in October "Mid December". The relevant Transformers issues were #59, #60 and #61.
UK comic
The date on a British weekly during Transformers's run was normally the off-sale date when it would be replaced by the next issue. For example issue #283 has a cover date of 18th August 1990 but was released on the 11th August 1990. During at least most of the run the norm was for weekly comics to come out on a Saturday.
Occasionally an issue was seen arriving on the Friday before it was "due", with such sightings usually during the Christmas/New Year period when distribution can be unsettled and overcompensated for, but it is hard to verify individual sightings.
