User:Some Dweeb/sandbox/European Marvel G1 Publishers
Atlantic (1987-1991, 1993)
[edit]Atlantic Förlags AB was a major comics publisher in Sweden, holding the license for Marvel Comics titles from 1978 to 1984.<ref>https://seriewikin.serieframjandet.se/index.php/Atlantic_F%C3%B6rlags_AB</ref>
Their Transformers output consisted of the equivalent of two American issues and a few The Transformers Universe profiles per issue. Notably, this was the only Nordic publisher to reprint the US Marvel run in its entirety, along with reprinting some UK material due to catching up with the American edition. They printed a special issue, presumably to tie in with Generation 2 in 1993 that reprinted four random issues of the original Marvel series. <ref>https://seriewikin.serieframjandet.se/index.php/Transformers</ref> They also published The Transformers in Denmark and Norway for shorter periods of time, the latter after Bladkompaniet's run.
They were bought out by Egmont in 2000.
Semic (1987-1991)
[edit]Semic was a major Swedish comic publisher, notable for publishing the Phantom, along with translations of both Marvel and DC before its Scandinavian comics publishing arm was sold to Egmont in 1997. Its Polish arm, TM-Semic, published isues #26-75 of Marvel's series in Finland and Poland.<ref>https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers#Semic</ref><ref>https://seriewikin.serieframjandet.se/index.php/TM-Semic</ref>
Its imprint for American Superhero comics, Satellitförlaget, also published a translated version of Action Force.<ref>https://seriewikin.serieframjandet.se/index.php/Semic</ref>
Schibsted (2003)
[edit]Schibsted is a Norwegian media company that has published comic books, including those based on Transformers, as well as publisher of Marvel titles (Read: Spider-Man and X-Men) in the Swedish market until 2010 and its remaining titles were continued or cancelled by Egmont.<ref>https://seriewikin.serieframjandet.se/index.php/Schibsted_F%C3%B6rlagen</ref>
Bladkompaniet, a Norwegian comics publisher purchased by Schibsted in 1999, was the second publisher of Marvel's The Transformers in Norwegian, after Gevion as well as the publisher of Dreamwave's Transformers: Armada series in Norwegian.
Swedish manga publisher Full Stop Media, which was purchased by Schibsted in 2006, put out a Swedish translation of Dreamwave's Transformers: Armada series, also featuring their Prime Directive and half of the War Within miniseries.