Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection

2017-02-09T17:31:59Z

Tomwe: /* Volumes */ added issues 8 & 9 as confirmed by Forbidden Planet preorder pages

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'''Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection''' is a fortnightly sixty-volume patchwork from [[Hatchette]], edited by [[Simon Furman]]. Partworks are a Hatchette speciality: a series will be collected out of order (the first ''Definitive'' was Volume 6) for commercial purposes but can be collected on your shelf in order with a fancy picture on the collective spines.

The plan is to republish ''all'' Generation 1 comics (as of 2016) and all of the original [[Marvel Comics]] run, UK and US, as one run again. Wow! That's great, right?

Only if you live in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Ireland]], suckers!

Each issue has a special cover and bonus content, and older strips will have recoloured artwork. [[Transformers_(Titan_Magazine)#Fantastic_Free_Gift.21|Fantastic FREE! Gifts]] are provided for subscribers, to make you buy all of them; the fourth delivery for subscribers would have [[Autobrand]] and Deceptibrand bookends to hold your collection.

This was given a trial-run in parts of the UK before a national release started in early 2017. The first volume was a collection of ''[[Target 2006]]'', coincidentally out on newsagents thirty years after the story originally ran!<ref>[http://thesolarpool.weebly.com/transformers-uk227.html Solar Pool]: "The Target: 2006 book is already out... if it doesn’t [finish], Target: 2006 was back on at least some newsagents shelves towards the end of its 30th anniversary week. How cool is that?"</ref> The extra features included character profiles and The Middle Years that ran in the original issues.

US reprints are taken from IDW's ''Transformers Classic'' 'remasters', complete with desperate attempts to 'fix' errors. Instead of running the black and white UK strips in their original form, [[John-Paul Bove]] has coloured them with emulations of both 1980s American and latter-day Marvel UK colouring techniques.<ref>"A Different Approach to Colour", Vol.16</ref>

==Volumes==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: none;
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!Volume #!!Contents!!Issue #
|-
| Volume 6: Target: 2006
| [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel UK]] [[Target: 2006|#78-88]], [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel US]] [[Aerialbots over America!|#21]]-[[Decepticon Graffiti!|#23]]
| Issue #1
|-
| Volume 10: Trial by Fire
| [[The Transformers: Headmasters|Headmasters 1-4]], [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel US]] [[Trial by Fire!|#38]]-[[The Desert Island of Space!|#39]], [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel UK]] [[Worlds Apart!|#130]]-[[Kup%27s Story!|#132]]
| Issue #9
|-
| Volume 16: The Primal Scream
| [[Cold Comfort and Joy!|Marvel UK #198]], [[The Fall and Rise of the Decepticon Empire.|#213]]-[[Survivors!|222]], [[Back from the Dead|Marvel US #56]]-[[The Primal Scream|61]]
| Issue #3
|-
| Volume 18: Edge of Extinction
| [[Rhythms of Darkness!|Marvel US #67]]-[[On the Edge of Extinction!|75]]
| Issue #4
|-
| Volume 19: Perchance to Dream
| [[Out to Lunch!|Marvel UK #240]]-[[...Perchance to Dream|260]], [[Still Life!|Marvel US #76]]-[[Exodus!|77]]
| Issue #7
|-
| Volume 28: The War Within
| [[Transformers: The War Within|The War Within #1-6]]
| Issue #5
|-
|Volume 36: Stormbringer
| ''[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]'', ''[[Spotlight: Soundwave]]'', [[The Transformers: Stormbringer|''Stormbringer'' #1-4]], ''[[Spotlight: Nightbeat]]'', ''[[Spotlight: Hot Rod]]''
| Issue #2
|-
| Volume 37: Escalation
| [[The Transformers: Escalation|''Escalation'' #1-6]]
| Issue #6
|-
| Volume 39: Heart Of Steel
| [[Hearts of Steel|Hearts of Steel 1-4]], [[Spotlight: Galvatron]], [[Spotlight: Optimus Prime]], [[Spotlight: Mirage]]
| Issue #8
|}

==Features==
Notable features in the back included:

* A guide to the launch of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' in the UK and its marketing purposes for Marvel UK (Vol.6)
* An article by Bove on the colouring techniques used at Marvel UK and Marvel US in the 1980s, and how he emulated them for colourising the UK strips (Vol.16)

==Notes==
* When the website launched, it accidentally credited [[Andrew Wildman|Andrew ''Wlid''man]].
* Copies of the first issue (volume 6 - this ''will'' get confusing in the long run) provided to general retail and initial subscribers have an error on the spine, with the black volume number box at the top being the wrong size. Subscribers received free corrected copies. Everyone who bought it at a newsagent has to wait for a replacement copy to be included with issue 7 (which is not volume 7, if you see). Hachette were seen giving away error-stricken copies for free at a signing event at a London comic shop.<ref>[http://forums.millarworld.tv/t/the-trades-thread-hardcovers-graphic-novels-and-more/4923/2359]</ref>
* This error shouldn't be confused with the change in spine art for the first four issues made between the limited trial run and the mass release<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/TransformersG1Collection/posts/1533415153338562?comment_id=1533436356669775&reply_comment_id=1533593929987351]</ref>, which means that anyone who subscribed to the series from its trial will end up with three different copies of issue 1.

==References==
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==External links==

[http://www.transformerscollection.com/ Official website]

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