Editing The Transformers (issue)

[[Image:MarvelUS-01.jpg|thumb|right|[[Smallest Transforming Transformers|Largest Transforming Transformers]] Optimus Prime!  One of six blind-packed $500 toys!]]

'''A group of sentient warring robots crash lands on Earth four million years ago.   When they awake in the present day, their battle begins anew.'''

=Marvel US issue #1=
''(Story also appears in: Marvel UK issues #1-2)''

'''Plot:''' [[Bill Mantlo]] <br>
'''Script:''' [[Ralph Macchio]] <br>
'''Pencils:''' [[Frank Springer]]<br>
'''Inks:''' [[Kim DeMulder]]<br>
'''Lettering:''' Higgins and [[Rick Parker]]<br>
'''Colors:''' [[Nelson Yomtov]]<br>
'''Editor:''' [[Bob Budiansky]]<br>

*''Major characters (in order of appearance):'' [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Buster Witwicky]], [[Jesse|Jessie]], [["O"]], 
*''Originally published:'' May 1984  (Cover date: September 1984)

==Synopsis==

The Transformers are a race of sentient robots from the planet [[Cybertron]]. They have been involved in a eons-old war between the heroic [[Autobots]] and the evil [[Decepticons]]. In an effort the save their home planet from destruction as it passes through an asteroid field, the Autobots lead a mission into space to clear a path through the asteroids. After the mission is completed, the Decepticons attack the weakened Autobot warriors. In a desperate effort to defeat the Decepticons, Optimus Prime, the Autobot leader, crash lands the Autobot spaceship, called the [[Ark]], into the (believed to be) lifeless planet nearby. Four million years later, the Transformers are awakened to discover that this planet (the Earth), is not so lifeless after all. The war begins anew.... 

==Errors==
*TBA

==Items of note==
*Advertised as part 1 in a 4-issue limited series.
* On May 22 the [http://groups.google.com/group/net.comics/msg/1cdaf7df610e0376?dmode=source&hl=en first Usenet post about Transformers] is posted by Ted Nolan to net.comics, regarding this issue.  Capsule review?  "Worst comic of the year."
* The cover price is 75 cents, which would be $1.50 when adjusted for inflation to 2007 dollars.  IDW's Transformers comics currently cost $3.99.

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