Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 7

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The cruel giant child waved at Optimus Prime as the Rainbow Predacons devoured him.
Publisher	Condor Verlag
Cover date	February 1990
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity
Price	3.50 DM

Contents

Transformers — Transforming Robots in Action: New York — A City Sinking in Terror

Commander McCullough and Lieutenant Potter of intercontinental air control spend a lot of time being clueless about unidentified flying objects and deny the existence of alien robots.

Meanwhile, two groups of alien robots—Autobot and Decepticon Micromasters, respectively—arrive on Earth and somehow, Autobots and Decepticons get into a huge battle for New York City. Amongst the highlights of this battle are a King Con scaling the Empire State Building and Vroom pointing out the obvious while ending every sentence in an exclamation mark.

Said battle ends when Optimus Prime rents a helicopter to fly a banner announcing huge raw oil deposit finds in the Rocky Mountains. After short hesitation, the Decepticons retreat to pursue these findings, coincidentally exactly where the secret base of international air control is hidden. (source)

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans
Optimus Prime (3) Race Car Patrol (4–7) Off Road Patrol (8–12) Rescue Patrol (13–17) Sports Car Patrol (18–22) Triggerbots (40–42) Vroom (46) Bumblebee (47)	Battle Patrol (23–27) Air Strike Patrol (28–32) Scorponok (33) Finback (34) Submarauder (35) Iguanus (36) Bomb-Burst (37) Bugly (38) Skullgrin (39) Megatron (43) Shockwave (44) Soundwave (45)	McCullough (1) Potter (2)

Articles and features

Mighty Morphin' Blaster Rangers!

• A crossword that claims that Optimus Prime is a Decepticon on the look-out for new alternate modes for his friends—and he is looking at birds!
• Mirroring the events of the comic strip reprint, readers have a chance to put Optimus Prime back together by selecting the parts that can create a complete drawing.
• Some VERY strangely coloured images of Blaster present some nature-based puzzles and facts.

Reprints

• The Transformers (Marvel UK) #96-97 - "Prey!"

Notes

• The reprint of "Prey!" has the title "Optimus Prime - The End of the Legend?"
• The cover price increases to 3.50 DM with this issue
• This issue features the debut of 'Team News' on the back cover, which gives news on Transformers products to buy. Most notable is the rather nice, clean line art of various characters' box art.
• The winners' names and addresses to the previous issues' competitions are all published on one page. Ah, a more innocent time...
• An editorial note in the text story places the events during Condor's version of "King Con!". The illustration is recolored from that issue's US cover.

Errors

• The cover bears an actual resemblance to the contents of the comic.
• Debuting in the text story: Pretender Funback.
• There is mention of the fearsome Decepticon known only as King Con! I wonder if he knows Iguanus?
• The text story has Earth's news agencies and militaries wondering if the Transformers really exist. You know they do: the Decepticons had a global press conference about it!

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• One-page advertisement for the Transformers cartoon featuring the Powermaster Optimus Prime package art.
• One-page advertisement for the Classics reissues.
• One-page advertisement for the Micromaster bases.

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