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Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue #5

Editor in Chief: Brian Savage
Co-ordinating Editor: Pete Sinclair
Lead Writer/Assistant Editor: Rik Alvarez
Associate Editor: Benson Yee
Associate Editor/Photography: Jon Hartman
Vintage Articles Manager: Karl Hartman
Creative Director/Coffee Stains: Lanny Lathem

"Brian's Bytes and Bolts" by Brian Savage (p. 1)
"Landmine - A Short Review" by J.E. Alvarez (p. 1)
"'Decipher the Decepticon': The Third Generation One Premium," by Karl Hartman with photos by Jon Hartman (pp. 2-3)
"Palisades Disassembles Their Transformer License," by J.E. Alvarez (p. 4)
"A Tale of Two Starscreams," by Joe Moore (pp. 5 and 10)
Bios in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
- Vector Prime, with art by LagunaL8 (p. 6)
- Ramjet, with pencils by John Flores and colors by Joe Moore (p. 7)
"From Japan: Metrotitan" by J.E. Alvarez (p. 8)
"Transfan Art Gallery," featuring submissions from Michael Alvey, Megan Seekings, Pete Billingham, Katherine Anderson, and Nicky Iacobazzi (p. 9)
"Another Con," a comic by Pete Sinclair and Rob Meyer (p. 10)
"Balancing Act, Part 4" - comic story by Forest Lee and Dan Khanna (pp. 11-16)

This issue finally includes credits for the newsletter staff.
Two profiles are included this time, one Autobot and one Decepticon. This is a trend which would continue throughout most issues in the magazine's run.
Characters mentioned in Vector Prime's bio include: Primus and Unicron.
Characters mentioned in Ramjet's bio include: Unicron, "ancient gods", and his Mini-Con crew.
- Ramjet attempted to assist Unicron at the end of the Powerlinx Battles, seen in the last episodes of the Energon cartoon.
- While never directly stated to be them, the ancient gods are obviously meant to be the Elder Gods created by H. P. Lovecraft.
- Ramjet is said to be as "crazy as a Quint in a Sharkticon pit."

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 * Characters mentioned in Vector Prime's bio include: [[Primus]] and [[Unicron]].
 * Characters mentioned in Ramjet's bio include: Unicron, "[[Elder God|ancient gods]]", and his Mini-Con crew.
-** Ramjet attempted to assist Unicron at the end of the [[Powerlinx Battles]], seen in the [[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|last episodes of the Energon cartoon]].
+** Ramjet attempted to assist Unicron at the end of the [[Powerlinx Battles]], seen in the [[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|last episodes of the ''Energon'' cartoon]].
 ** While never directly stated to be them, the ancient gods are obviously meant to be the Elder Gods created by {{w|H. P. Lovecraft}}.
 ** Ramjet is said to be as "crazy as a [[Quintesson|Quint]] in a [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]] pit."
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