Editing The Transformers: The IDW Collection

[[File:IDWCollection1.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb|The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume One]]
Beginning in 2010, [[IDW Publishing]] began a series of hardcovers titled '''''The Transformers: The IDW Collection''''', which aimed to reprint the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW Transformers stories]] in a "suggested reading order" up through ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron]]'' and beyond. This order included some... questionable placements for certain stories.

The first eight volumes, retroactively labelled "Phase One", cover the stories released up through the end of [[The Transformers (IDW)|the 2009 ongoing series]].  "Phase Two" begins with "[[Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime]]" and carries over into the ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' and ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Robots in Disguise]]'' ongoings. The presented reading order of Phase Two is even more haphazard than that of Phase One, frequently hopping back and forth between the two parallel ongoings while also juggling the various otherwise-disconnected miniseries.

For of the first eight volumes, [[E. J. Su]] provided brand new cover art of a specific character that plays a notable role in certain comic stories featured in each volume. The covers for Phase Two are provided by [[Sarah Stone]] and [[Marcelo Matere]].

In 2016, a softcover Compendium edition containing the first two volumes hit the shelves. No further Compendiums have been produced.

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<div class="list-header">Phase One:</div>
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume One|#1]]
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Two|#2]]
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Three|#3]]
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Four|#4]]
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Five|#5]]
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Six|#6]]
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Seven|#7]]
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Eight|#8]]
<br/><div class="list-header">Phase Two:</div>
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 1|#1]]
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 2|#2]]
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 3|#3]]
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 4|#4]]
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 5|#5]]
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 6|#6]]
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 7|#7]]
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 8|#8]]
<br/><div class="list-header">Compendium:</div>
*[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Compendium, Vol. 1|#1]]
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