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Revision as of 18:17, 19 November 2011

Transformers Annual 1987
"In the Beginning..."
Publisher Marvel Comics
First published September 1986
Cover date 1987
Writer Simon Furman
Continuity Marvel Comics continuity

A human hacker logs into the Decepticon mainframe and reads an overview of the Autobot/Decepticon war.

Synopsis

Teen hacker Adam Reynolds mis-dials while trying to reach his local bank and instead reaches the Decepticon mainframe computer. A fluke results in him typing the correct access code, and he reads in amazement the history of the Autobot/Decepticon war.

However, Adam inadvertently triggers a security system when he tries to access a file his code doesn't give him access to. The Decepticon Mainframe Computer sends a 1,000,000 volt surge down Adam's phone line, destroying his computer and burning up his printouts. Adam would have been killed—except this cat startled him back from the computer a moment before it exploded.

Adam is not dissuaded. He wonders if there's an Autobot computer online somewhere...

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Humans Others

Notes

  • Optimus Prime's bio includes the tidbit that he wanted to train as a medical officer before the war broke out and he signed up to fight.
  • The story includes two instances of 'Cybertronian dates,' but like every such instance, it provides no conversion ratio, and is inconsistent with every other instance.
  • Adam Reynolds would return in "The Saga of the Transformers — So Far!" in the Transformers Annual 1989.

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