Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 63

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COMBINER WARS Special Cover 1 of 2!
Publisher	Fun Publications
First published	early June
Cover date	June/July 2015
MTMTE Profiles	Eryck Webb
Contributors	David Willis Greg Black Jim Sorenson Bill Forster Karl Hartman Derrick J. Wyatt Richard Chang Benson Yee
Editor	Pete Sinclair
Associate editor	Jesse Wittenrich
Creative Director	Lanny Lathem
Editor-in-chief	Brian Savage

COMBINER WARS Special Cover 2 of 2

Contents

• On the cover: either Quickslinger or Brake-Neck's packaging art (p. 1)
• Inside cover: "The Bolts Bite Back", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
• "Transformers: Robots in Disguise Q&A with the new voice of Bumblebee... Will Friedle" (p. 3)
• "Hasbro's May Mayhem!" a behind-the-scenes look at the exclusive bots seen on the covers (pp. 4–5)
• "Transformers Hall of Fame: And the nominees are..." (p. 6)
• Another Light: "Memory's Splinter" - comic story (pp. 7–12)
• "Teletraanic History Records: Dinobot Commander", a recap of Grimlock's history in the Classicsverse so far (pp. 13–14)
• Bio in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
  • Classics Grimlock (p. 15)
• "The Back Cover..." (p. 16)
  • Shotimus Prime's Interviewy Times
  • Recordicons
  • Bot on the Street

Notes

• Characters mentioned in the history record on Grimlock include: Optimus Prime, Slag, Snarl, Sludge, Swoop, Megatron, the Ark's computer (see errors below), Shockwave, Ratchet, Omega Supreme, Trypticon, Goldbug/Bumblebee, Blaster, Wheeljack, Sky Lynx, the Spacehikers, Starscream, Jazz, Thunderwing, the Mayhem Attack Squad, Primus, Unicron, Prowl, Bludgeon, the Last Autobot, Bug Bite, Ironworks, Depth Charge, Shattered Glass Galvatron, and Shattered Glass Optimus Prime.
  • Images used to represent Grimlock's history include a headshot of him from issue #8 of the Marvel The Transformers comic (pencils by William Johnson, inks by Kyle Baker, colors by Nelson Yomtov); Swoop, Perceptor, and Jetfire declaring Grimlock their leader from issue #27 (pencils by Don Perlin, inks by Ian Akin and Brian Garvey, colors by Nelson Yomtov); Grimlock on his throne (with the Dinobots, First Aid, and Beachcomber standing by) from issue #36 (pencils by José Delbo, inks by Ian Akin and Brian Garvey, colors by Nelson Yomtov); Grimlock crushing a crown in anger in front of Goldbug from issue #28 (pencils by Don Perlin, inks by Ian Akin and Brian Garvey, colors by Nelson Yomtov); Starscream using the power of the Underbase to have the Decepticon Pretenders fire on Grimlock, from issue #50 (pencils by José Delbo, inks by Dave Hunt, colors by Nelson Yomtov); Grimlock in his Pretender shell standing in triumph over some destroyed Decepticons (with Fixit visible in the background) from issue #60 (pencils by José Delbo, inks by Dave Hunt, colors by Nelson Yomtov); Grimlock destroying his room in anger from issue #69 (pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Harry Candelario, colors by Nelson Yomtov); Grimlock in his Action Master form from issue #76 (pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Stephen Baskerville, colors by Nelson Yomtov); Grimlock and Optimus defending Skyfall from Megatron from "Crossing Over, Part 1" (pencils by Dan Khanna, inks by Terry Pallot, colors by Krista Ward and Joe Givens); Grimlock versus the Constructicons from "Crossing Over: Part 5" (pencils by Dan Khanna, inks by Terry Pallot and Jake Isenberg, colors by Josh Perez); and Grimlock on monitor duty from "Shattered Hope" (pencils and inks by Matt Frank, colors by Thomas Deer).
  • Grimlock's reference number is #DR.1//ONOKOU21N616599M.30. DR.1 is derived from his original toy's Diaclone release's i.d. number, as "Dinosaur Robo 1"; ONOKOU is derived from his original toy's designer, Kōjin Ōno; and 616599M.30 is derived from his toy's patent application number 616,599, filed on May 30, 1984.
  • As with Prowl last issue, this is a sort of wiki-like rundown of Classics Grimlock's history.
• Characters mentioned in Grimlock's profile include: Classics Optimus Prime, Classics Blaster, Classics Prowl, Shattered Glass Optimus Prime, Shattered Glass Blaster, Shattered Glass Prowl, and Shattered Glass Galvatron.
  • Grimlock's alternate mode is noted to be a Utahraptor, as his profile in the Beast Wars Sourcebook indicated.
• This is Grimlock's third More than Meets the Eye-style profile! The same Grimlock, no less! The piece of artwork used here is the same as that used for his last one.
• These are the last installments of Hot Shot's Bot Thoughts, Recordicons, and Bot on the Street, taking us from Maximum Willis to Minimum Willis.

Errors

• On the Hall of Fame nominees page, an image of Cybertron Jungle Planet Optimus Prime is used as representation of Optimus Primal.
• The history record on Grimlock accidentally calls the Ark's computer Teletraan I-being a recap of the Marvel continuity, it should be "Auntie".
• Additionally, Optimus Prime is described as missing when Grimlock takes over the Autobots; he's actually (sort of) dead, as seen in issue #24.
• Sky Lynx's name is spelled "Skylynx".
• Mayhem Attack Squad is spelled "mayhem Attack Squad".
• GoBot is spelled "Gobot".

Covers (2)

• Cover 1: Quickslinger
• Cover 2: Brake-Neck

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