Transformers: Dark Designs

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Transformers: Dark Designs
Publisher	Titan Books
First published	27 September 2002 (TPB) 25 October 2002 (HC)
Writer	Simon Furman
Pencilers	Manny Galan, Derek Yaniger & Andrew Wildman
Inkers	Derek Yaniger, Jim Amash, Marie Severin & Stephen Baskerville
Colorists	Sarra Mossoff & Chia-Chi Wang
Letterers	Richard Starkings & John Gaushell
Editor	Rob Tokar
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity
ISBN	ISBN 1-84023-527-6 (HC)
TPB ISBN	ISBN 1-84023-525-X
Price	$19.95, £14.99
Printed in	Italy

Transformers: Dark Designs, published by Titan Books, is the name of the first Generation 2 trade paperback, which contains the first six issues of the original US Transformers comics published by Marvel.

Contents

• "Eating My Words", a preface by Simon Furman
• "Prophetic Words," a preface by Richard Starkings
• A recap of the Generation 1 series
• A recap of the G.I. Joe issues leading into Generation 2
• "War Without End!"
• "All or Nothing!"
• "Primal Fear!"
• "Devices and Desires!"
• "The Power and the Glory"
• "The Gathering Darkness"
• Cover Gallery

Items of Note

• Omits Marvel Transformers: Generation 2 #0, "Ghosts", a promotional issue released prior to #1 and later reprinted as a backup story in #2. It was not part of the ongoing storyline.
• Rather than slotting between individual issues as "chapter headers," the covers for #1–3 are positioned amongst the story pages of #1 in order to space out the issue's numerous double-page spreads.

Covers

• TPB cover art: Megatron, Swoop, Bludgeon, Grimlock's toe and half of the Liege Maximo, by Andy Wildman.
• Hardback cover art: Megatron and the graves of Starscream, Bludgeon, Fortress Maximus and Optimus Prime, by John Byrne and Chris Blythe.

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