Wolf in the Fold!

This article is about the Marvel UK comic issue. For the Beast Machines episode, see A Wolf in the Fold.

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"Wolf in the Fold!"
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First published	2nd June 1990
Cover date	9th June 1990
Writer	Simon Furman
Art	Staz
Lettering	Glib
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity/Earthforce

Carnivac and Springer both have to face their fellows...

Synopsis

These stories do not fit into the normal Marvel continuity. See Earthforce for details.

Carnivac patrols the Mayhem Attack Squad's base, trying to find a member alone. Octopunch and Stranglehold are on joint guard duty whilst Spinister and Snarler are making plans. However, Bludgeon is meditating solo.

Meanwhile, the Autobot Survivors debate what to do about Carnivac. Springer believes Carnivac can handle the situation by himself, but Broadside wants to call in the Autobot Earthforce. Springer is unsure as it means dealing with Grimlock. Springer had wanted the Survivors to wait and tackle the Mayhems as a team, but Carnivac headed off solo, wanting revenge. Skids declares that, whether Springer calls in the Earthforce or not, the others will go to help Carnivac. This forces Springer's hand.

Carnivac tries to attack Bludgeon from behind, but the Master of Metallikato cannot be taken unaware. They struggle, but Bludgeon throws Carnivac backwards and grabs his sword. Carnivac realises he's messed this up and lost the element of surprise, but Bludgeon is glad that his foe will die a warrior's death. Carnivac runs, trying desperately to come up with a solution.

All five surviving Mayhems corner Carnivac. Spinister decides to dispense with close range kills and fires a successful deadly blast at the wolf.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons
Springer (1) Broadside (5) Skids (9) Inferno (10)	Stranglehold (2) Octopunch (3) Carnivac (4) Snarler (6) Spinister (7) Bludgeon (8)

Notes

Artwork and technical errors

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Continuity errors

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Continuity notes

• With this issue, the Survivors storyline now explicitly ties into the alternate continuity of the Earthforce storyline. It's not clear where one draws the line between the main storyline and this portion of the Earthforce branch.

Real-life references

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Other trivia

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Back-up material

• Additional Transformers story: "Ashes, Ashes..."
• Other strips: G.I. Joe the Action Force - "The Tenth Letter" and Combat Colin
• AtoZ: Skywarp and Slag

Cover

• Issue #273 cover: Carnivac stalks the Mayhems, by Staz.

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  Issue #273

Reprints

• Transformers Annual 1992: the Dinobots on the rampage, by Jeff Anderson.
• Transformers Winter Special: Optimus Prime mourns the dying Scorponok, by Stewart Johnson.
• Transformers: Way of the Warrior: Carnivac and Springer stand victorious over a Limbo nightmare creature, by Simon Coleby.
• Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 20: End of the Road: Bludgeon (art reused from Dreamwave's More than Meets the Eye profiles) above an interior scene of Grimlock punching through Fangry (from US issue #80) by Andrew Wildman.

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  Transformers Annual 1992; Cover art by Jeff Anderson
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  Winter Special; cover art by Staz
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  Way of the Warrior (Titan Books, 2005)
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  The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 20 (Hachette Partworks, Ltd., 2018)