Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics 戦え!超ロボット生命体トランスフォーマーザ★コミックス (Tatakae! Chōrobotto Seimeitai Toransufōmā Za Komikkusu)
Publisher	Million Publishing
First published	October 23, 2002
Story	Masumi Kaneda
Art	Ban Magami
Continuity	TV Magazine continuity
ISBN	ISBN 4813000932 ISBN 978-4813000938
Page count	639
Price	2800 Yen

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics is a graphic novel released in 2002 by Million Publishing. Transformers: The Comics effectively collects every issue of the original Generation 1 Transformers manga published in the pages of TV Magazine.

All stories were written by Masumi Kaneda with all artwork provided by Ban Magami.

An official three-volume English translation was released by Viz Media in 2020 under the title Transformers: The Manga.

Contents

Comics

• Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (prologue and 8 issues)
• The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers (5 issues)
• The Great Transformer War (3 issues)
• "The Decisive Battle of Planet Beast!" (special)
• The Headmasters (8 issues)
• Super-God Masterforce (12 issues)
• Victory (10 issues)
• Zone (special)
• The Battlestars (special)

Bonus material

• Gallery of select original episode-themed artwork by Ban Magami spanning all Generation 1 series.
• Two pieces of guest artwork.
• 6 page interview with Ban Magami.

Alterations

Some issues were modified in order to fit this condensed, black and white collection.

• The Super Robot Lifeform prologue was originally published in color, but rendered in black and white for this publication.

• The Zone special is oddly printed backward, with the last page first and the first page last.

• The Battlestars special is perhaps the most perplexing, with each original page reduced in size, rotated clockwise onto their side and stacked two per page. A quality-disrupting space-saving measure, to be sure.

Contest

• To help promote the book, a contest was held in conjunction with its release. Someone who purchased a copy of the book could mail in a black slip that was wrapped around its cover, earning them a chance to win a black version of the original Tracks toy (called, creatively enough, "Black Tracks"). 300 Black Tracks toys were awarded through this competition.

External links

• TF Black Tracks and the Finnish Diaclone Black Corvette Stingray at TF-1.com