Talk:Prisoner of War!

But the early Marvel issues clearly take place in the Marvel universe (references to the Savage land, SHIELD, Circuit Breaker in Secret Wars, etc).- DJ Convoy 11:10, 15 November 2006

The Marvel Transformers takes place on Earth-120185. --Crockalley 19:34, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Right- I was protesting the addition of "Spider-man's presence makes this an error, etc." which Walky already fixed. --DJ Convoy 19:48, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

No, Spiderman's appearance was not an honest-to-goodness error, but it IS an "error" in the sense that it should NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED! Was there any valid reason for randomly interjecting him into the storyline other than a marketing ploy by Marvel? Methinks not.

So what about the Savage Land appearance? Was Marvel doubtless trying to shamelessly raise sales of their Ka-Zar book? The Early Transformers books were set in the Marvel Universe, so it wasn't random at all. In fact, it's, well, more common than not for big Marvel guys to show up in new book -- not to raise sales for those big Marvel guys, but to raise sales for the new book. Marvel was trying to help out Transformers. (The direction of this ploy is confirmed. Sources state that Marvel tried to put Spider-Man into the book to help Transformers' sales, but Hasbro at first refused because Spider-Man toys were being sold by their competitors. But Marvel was, like, dude, we're trying to help you out. That's why he's in the black symbiote costume and backdated, because that's not a figure their competitors were selling.) Marketing ploy, yes, but... dude, these are comics. Merely being superheroes is already a marketing ploy. Being male is a marketing ploy. Always beating the bad guys is a marketing ploy. The Transformers comic book itself is a marketing ploy to sell the toyline. Your cynicism is kinda uneven. --ItsWalky 19:09, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

UK Printing

Did by chance Marvel UK #6 leave out US page 20, where Spiderman and gears finish off Ravage and face Soundwave? My UK scans skip that page, and I don't know if it was not in the comic (like the Autobot introduction pages from US 1, or if it's just a missing scan. --FortMax 01:56, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I just checked the issue and yes they did print it (in glorious black and white no less).Omnisvalidus 18:02, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Inkers

As I can't find anything on "Jim Esposito", I suspect that the inker in question is actually Mike Esposito, who'd been inking a lot of Spider-Man comics a few years before. I'm not sure where "Jim" came from though — is his full name credited in any of the reprints? --abates 02:28, 4 October 2010 (EDT)

Artist of the cover for Issue 3

Melissa (talk) 23:11, 26 January 2018 (EST)

I just found out some info that the artist for the US cover, you know the one with Spider-Man, might not be Michael J. Zeck, like it has been believed, but it might be Mark Texiera. According to Stephen Baskerville on his Facebook page, he asked Bob Budiansky who drew it and Bob said it was Texiera. I thought this might be something to look into, so I thought I would share, of course I am not at all sure if its at all true. Here is a link to the Facebook post and I am sure you can find the comment made by him, that is if you are friends with him on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10209985757794022&set=a.1661851679644.73163.1637788060&type=3&theater

The biggest strike against this idea is that Texeira always seems to sign his name obviously somewhere on his composition. A big TEXEIRA or TEX somewhere, and this is true of his The Transformers #4 cover as well. But there's no TEX or anything anywhere on the Spider-Man cover. MAYBE he put it on the Megatron foot, which was covered up by the Spider-Man box at the bottom? I dunno. --ItsWalky (talk) 23:40, 26 January 2018 (EST)

I GUESS WE COULD, LIKE, ASK HIM: https://twitter.com/artbytex --ItsWalky (talk) 00:01, 27 January 2018 (EST)

I am not on Twitter, but I am "friends" with Mr. Texiera on Facebook and I sent him a PM asking him about the cover, if he gets back to me I will let you know. Hopefully someone will find out if this is all true or not, just thought it was some intriguing info about the cover. --Melissa (talk) 05:21, 27 January 2018 (EST)