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*'''Date:''' [[May 2]]nd, [[2009]].
*'''Date:''' [[May 2]]nd, [[2009]].
*'''Cover A:''' Reprint of cover A from ''[[Transformers Animated: The Arrival|The Arrival]]'' [[The Arrival issue 5|issue #5]] by [[Marcelo Matere]].
*'''Cover A:''' Reprint of cover A from ''[[Transformers Animated: The Arrival|The Arrival]]'' [[The Arrival issue 5|issue #5]] by [[Marcelo Matere]].
*'''Cover B:''' Reprint of cover B from [http://www.yojoe.com/comics/idw/idw01b.shtml ''G.I. Joe'' #1] by [[Robert Atkins]].  
*'''Cover B:''' Reprint of cover B from {{i|G.I. Joe issue 1|''G.I. Joe'' #1}} by [[Robert Atkins]].  
**'''Featured series #1:''' ''Transformers Animated: The Arrival''
**'''Featured series #1:''' ''Transformers Animated: The Arrival''
***'''Story:''' "[[The Arrival issue 5|Survival Skills]]"
***'''Story:''' "[[The Arrival issue 5|Survival Skills]]"
**'''Featured series #2:''' ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]''
**'''Featured series #2:''' ''{{i|G.I. Joe (comic)|G.I. Joe}}''
***'''Story:''' "One Word"
***'''Story:''' "{{i|One Word}}"
**'''Featured series #3:''' ''G.I. Joe: Origins''
**'''Featured series #3:''' ''{{i|G.I. Joe: Origins}}''
***'''Story:''' "In and Out"
***'''Story:''' "{{i|In or Out?}}"


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==Notes==
*While [[IDW Publishing]] didn't release a ''Transformers'' comic for Free Comic Book Day 2016, they ''did'' release a dual [[Rom|ROM]]/[[Action Man]] issue, containing preludes to {{i|Earthfall: Prelude|each}} {{i|To the Victors the Spoils|of}} those [[Hasbro Universe]] titles.


==External link==
==External link==

Revision as of 14:44, 21 April 2018

It's the Most Wonderful Time Of The Year.

Free Comic Book Day, aka FCBD, is a wondrous event in which good little boys and girls all over the world get free comics! FREE! It is held on the first Saturday of May every year.

In celebrating FCBD, publishers will usually go with one of two options:

  1. Create entirely new mini-comics that feature brand new stories that have not been, and will likely never be, available by other means. This can prove to be quite an expensive and time-consuming project to undertake, so usually limits the publisher to making only a handful of releases of this kind without affecting their regular business.
  2. Reprint parts of stories from a few current comic lines in a bid to draw money attention to the series from which they originated. Since these stories are already written and drawn, this option is considerably cheaper than the first, allowing the publishers to make several books of this kind while sticking to the same budget and schedule.

It's swings and roundabouts, really.

Free Comic Book Day issues

2003

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  • Armada


2006

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  • Beast Wars: The Gathering
  • Stormbringer #1
  • Generations
  • Infiltration
  • Evolutions: Hearts of Steel #1


2007

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2008

  • Published by: IDW Publishing.
  • Date: May 3rd, 2008.
  • Cover: Reprint of the stock-art cover from Animated Volume 1, re-cropped to show more of the image.
    • Featured series: Transformers Animated
      • Story: Volume 1 (preview)
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2009

Stop steaming up my optics!
Yo us!
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Notes
  • The online preview for this issue showed an image made up of equal parts of the Transformers Animated and G.I.Joe covers, divided diagonally.


2012

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2014

2015

2018

Other free Transformers comics

"Halloween Special Edition"

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Notes

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