Transformers: Fallen Star

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Transformers: Fallen Star
Publisher	Titan Books
First published	23 September 2005
Writer	Simon Furman
Art	Geoff Senior, Staz, Andy Wildman
Pencils	Jeff Anderson, Simon Coleby, Pete Knifton, John Marshall
Inks	Jeff Anderson, Stephen Baskerville, Michael Eve, Pete Venters
Letterers	Stuart Bartlett, GLIB, Peri Godbold, Annie Halfacree, Julie Hughes, Helen Stone (credited as "Hel")
Editor	Chris Francis, Euan Peters
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity
TPB ISBN	ISBN 1-84576-060-3
Price	£5.99
Printed in	Italy

The third of Titan Books' trade paperbacks reprinting black and white Marvel UK stories, Transformers: Fallen Star covers events surrounding the resurrection of the Decepticons Starscream and Megatron (which took place in the main US continuity). It then moves on to the Earthforce timeline, to chart the Decepticon civil war and the machinations of Megatron, Shockwave, Starscream, and Soundwave.

Contents

• "Race with the Devil"
• "Fallen Star!"
• "Mind Games"
• "Two Megatrons!"
• "Flashback!"
• "The Bad Guy's Ball!"
• "Secrets"
• "Bugged!"
• "Internal Affairs!"
• "Assassins"
• "External Forces!"
• "The Lesser Evil!"

Cover

• Megatron and Shockwave tussle at Memphis Airport. Detail from the cover of issue #277, by Stewart Johnson.

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Notes

• This volume covers some of the UK tales from issue #215 to #286.
• The stories in these TPBs are placed into themes rather than being a chronological collection of the UK tales as they were published. The page count inevitably means some of the TPB collections are more coherent than others.
• Some of these stories sit well within the wider Marvel continuity like "Two Megatrons" which was written specifically to iron out continuity wrinkles between Marvel UK and Marvel US. The rest are from the Earthforce continuity.
• There are no changes from the original prints so the teaser at the end of one story/arc usually doesn't relate to the next story in the book. For instance, the "Race with the Devil" arc ends with 'Next: Survivors', only to be followed by "Fallen Star!".
• The small size of the books (7½ by 5 inches - less than half the original A4 format) means that some of the fine detail is lost.