Transformers: Beginnings (G1)

This article is about the Titan Books TPB. For the Walmart-exclusive DVD "motion comic" adapting IDW's Movie Prequel, see Transformers: Beginnings (Movie). For a list of other meanings, see Beginnings (disambiguation).

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Transformers: Beginnings
Publisher	Titan Books
First published	March 26, 2003
Writers	Bob Budiansky, Ralph Macchio, Bill Mantlo & Jim Salicrup
Pencilers	Alan Kupperberg & Frank Springer
Inkers	Ian Akin, Kim DeMulder, Mike Esposito, Brian Garvey & Alan Kupperberg
Colorist	Nelson Yomtov
Letterers	Janice Chiang, Mike Higgins, Rick Parker & John Workman
Editor	Bob Budiansky & Jim Owsley
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity
ISBN	ISBN 1-84023-642-6
TPB ISBN	ISBN 1-84023-623-X
Price	$16.95, £14.99
Printed in	Italy

Transformers: Beginnings, published by Titan Books, is the name of their seventh printed Generation 1 trade paperback. The first volume by internal chronology, it contains the first six issues of the original US Transformers comics published by Marvel.

Contents

• "More Than Meets the Eye...", a foreword by Jim Salicrup
• "The Transformers"
• "Power Play!"
• "Prisoner of War!"
• "The Last Stand"
• "The New Order"
• "The Worse of Two Evils!"
• Covers

Covers

• 
  Beginnings TPB
• 
  Beginnings hardback

• TPB cover: Optimus Prime, Ravage, the Ark, a Cybertronian spacecraft, and half of Cybertron, by Andrew Wildman.
• Hardback cover: Shockwave, by Ron Garney & Chris Blythe.

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