Talk:The Transformers (issue)

Y'know, that cover art definitely looks like it was done by Bill Sienkiewicz, not Frank Springer. Should we list credits for cover artist? Or am I mistaken about who did the art? JW 13:37, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

It is absolutely a Sienkiewicz cover. I'll add a cover credit. --Steve-o 03:26, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I see Blackrock removed the cover credit . . . I would say that when the cover artist is different from the interior artist for a comic, the cover artist should get a credit on the page for the comic book, not just on the page for the image. Discussion? JW 16:02, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I think the cover artist should get credit, and I'm not sure why they're being removed, despite being credited elsewhere. --ItsWalky 18:56, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure that my adding the UK cover credits below the US cover credit is the best solution, but I wanted to get them in there. Anyone have any better ideas? --Monzo 12:11, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

I think the standard on other pages where a small UK section of the bottom of the article listing such things as providing space for UK cover images to be posted, and details about covers, changes and letter pages (see Totaled! for a good example) seems to be best option Cyc 22:59, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Release Date

If it was released on May 29, 1984, how come the first Usenet review is from May 22? JW 20:33, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

If you check out the United States Copyright Office website, the publication dates of most Transformers comics can be found with a little searching. The first four issues are listed with publication dates of:

• #1 - May 8, 1984
• #2 - Jul 10, 1984
• #3 - Sep 11, 1984
• #4 - Nov 13, 1984

As can be seen, they're consistently four months away from their cover dates. The last two dates are contradicted by the intended publication dates as listed in Marvel Age, but the listed publication date of #1 on the Copyrights website is quite definitively well before that first online review. -- Jon T 21:38, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Cover gallery

Is there a way to force all five covers onto a single line? #5 looks ridiculous floating down there by itself in an otherwise empty row. -- Repowers 11:34, 12 May 2009 (EDT)

There is a way, as per the formatting information at wikimedia. You need to enter e.g. gallery perrow="X" as appropriate. I have done this; you can change it back if you feel it doesn't work on a narrower screen resolution. -Ashley Pomeroy 13:21, 13 August 2009 (EDT)

Autobot spread

Re: the Note about the two-page Autobot introduction spread. Are you sure? I have (sadly detached from its parent comic) this two-page spread in UK format. I'd have to actually find it to determine what's on the back, but the edges have, as I recall, a thick red border, and I never had either the first Annual or any of the Collected Comics. My memory of when I was a kid was that the spread was in issue #1, simply transplanted to the centerfold to take advantage of that being where the color printing was (which would help explain why I have it detached as a single piece). -LV 21:55, 15 March 2011 (EDT)

It's certainly absent from the Collected Comics edition and according to the TF Archive guide it was also cut from issue #2: [1] The text covering the omission is "THEIR EXIT DOES NOT GO UNNOTICED" under the panel of two jets and an, erm, tape player flying and "THE AUTOBOTS, TOO, HAVE RISEN..." above the panel of Prime requesting a damage report from Huffer.

My copy of the 1985/6 annual is presently elsewhere but ISTR that it has a red border - maybe it was reprinting the feature from somewhere in the regular comic? The second annual certainly got its checklist features from there. Timrollpickering 12:33, 16 March 2011 (EDT)

I'll have to see if I can dig it up when I get home tonight. I definitely recall the "THE AUTOBOTS, TOO, HAVE RISEN" margin text, so we're agreed on that. Hopefully finding what's on the backs of the spread - probably ads? - will go some way to figuring out where it came from. -LV 13:23, 16 March 2011 (EDT)

Might have something on this - according to the text in the recent Complete UK TPB (I don't have it, this is second-hand info) the two-page spread was instead used as a poster in #2, with the black-backed logo slapped over the top-left. My copy of #2 is missing the centre pages, which was where posters went in the first few issues (I'm the fella who did the TF Archive comic guide, a long time ago, and I didn't mean to state that the pages were cut quite so unilaterally), and frustratingly the TPB is missing an image of the poster. Not to doubt Roberts' word, but I'd love to hear from someone, anyone who has a copy of #2 with the poster actually in there for rock-solid confirmation. It makes sense when you think about it, though - holding it over for months until the first annual is daft when it would have taken up two handy pages in the comic. Street Heat 11:14, 30 October 2011 (EDT)

Further thought - I don't think I'm missing the centre pages from any other issues... By process of elimination that means LV's spread (ooo-er!) has to be from #2, right? RIGHT? ;) Street Heat 11:16, 30 October 2011 (EDT)

Managed to get a copy of #2 with the centre pages intact, and it is indeed the 'cut' pages - basically exactly the same as in the first annual (complete with logo plastered over the top-left frame). The pages are unnumbered and (obviously) situated smack in the middle of the drive-in scuffle, so it is technically not part of the story in the original UK printing Street Heat 10:47, 21 November 2011 (EST)

IDW Transformers Classics edits

There was a mistake in the IDW Classic edits

"Page 5: Jazz's colors are corrected as best they can be, changing him from incorrect yellow to white and blue."

The character that was recolored is Prowl not Jazz, so I corrected it, if its ok.

Destron1 17:16, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

That's not Prowl. Prowl's legs twist around in robot mode, and the detailing is much closer to Jazz; it's just that Jazz has been incorrectly drawn with two shoulder missiles. Escargon (talk) 13:18, 31 August 2020 (EDT)