1938

«	1938	»

The year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) predates the launch of the Transformers brand by forty-six years.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Fiction

Generation 1

Dreamwave Transformers/G.I. Joe comics

As the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth lay deactivated among the Fera Islands, the Matrix had been discovered by local human monks. Cobra became aware of the powerful relic, massacred the monks and stole the Matrix. When Major Bludd touched the relic, the Decepticons who laid dormant on the island were reactivated. As World War II began, Cobra and the Decepticons began overrunning Europe. The Line

2007 Movie

Events

Upon his father's death, Clarence Witwicky comes into the possessions of several pieces explorational equipment used in the National Arctic Circle Expedition, including the sextant, maps and glasses.

Deaths

August

• August 13 — Captain Witwicky

Non-Fiction

Events

• Using primitive earth technology, Orson Welles warns the citizens of earth that aliens from Mars are invading us! It turns out to be a hoax, until 2007, that is.
• Scalpel's alternate mode from the movie, the Lensometer Junior Model 603 is released by American Optical.

Births

February

• February 17 — Dario Penne

June

• June 29 — Imo Heite

July

• July 10 — Christoph Lindert
• July 30 — Michael Bell

December

• December 29 — Jon Voight

Undated

• ???? — Marshall Efron, Ulf Jürgen Söhmisch, Daniel Gall