Junior Press

Junior Press was a Dutch publisher of comic books that is located in the Netherlands. It printed The Transformers comic book series up until On the Edge of Extinction!. They also printed The Transformers: Headmasters as a stand-alone comic which was given out for free at toy stores.

The Dutch editing staff on Juniorpress consisted off:

Siebe Snoeren (issues #1- 10) and Tjerk Snoeren (#11 - 32) - Translations

Ans Loos - Dutch production and End production

BeauType - Lettering. Different people were credited here.

Because the comic was only printed every three months and they could't fit more than two US issues in one Dutch comic (with the exception of a single double-sized issue), several issues had to be omitted in order to stay current with the US releases, with explanations of what had happened in the intervening stories having to be printed on the introductions page. This was intentionally done in the case of Optimus Prime and Megatron's deaths in "Afterdeath!" and "Gone but Not Forgotten!" respectively, as they chose to publish Marvel's Transformers: the Movie as part of the main comic—rather than a separate standalone or miniseries—and believed killing the characters twice would only confuse the readers. Strangely, the non-canon story "The Big Broadcast of 2006" was also published. Junior Press would also publish profiles from The Transformers Universe and even a few issues from the Marvel UK comic in the regular series to help fill space when necessary.

Of further note is that in the earlier issues, Optimus mistakenly went by the name "Jetfire", as Jetfire had been positioned as the leader of the Autobots in early European marketing due to the initial unavailability of Prime's toy in those markets.

On Dutch issue #25 (US #61) the writers and the artists made Transformers names from their own names (Simon Furman Maximus, Geoffire Senior and Shrapnel Yomtov). The Dutch editors did the same thing with their names: Tjerkicon Snoeren, BumblebeauType and Ans Autoloos (wich actually means Ans without a car)

The last Dutch issue (#32) ends differently than the original issue (#75). The prologue is removed and instead of the last texts being "But life goes on and the story of The Transformers .... ... is far from told!", it ends with: "Goodbye brave Transformers: goodbye Cybertron ... All the best...! And the last page is a full black and white version of the picture of Cybertron on the page before.

Overview of all the Dutch comics

Dutch issue #	US issue #	Year	Notes
1	1 & 2	1985	Optimus Prime is called Jetfire
2	3 & 4	1985
3	5 & 6	1986
4	7 & 8	1987
5	9 & 10	1987	Optimus is now finally called Optimus Prime, with an explanation on the inside of the cover
6	11 & 12	1987
7	13 & 14	1987
8	17 & 18	1987
9	TF:TM 1, 2 & 3	1987
10	26 & 27	1988
11	28 & 29	1988
12	30 & 31	1988
13	32, 35, 36 & 37	1988
Headmasters special	TF: Headmasters 1, 2, 3 & 4	1988
14	38 & 39	1988
15	40 & 41	1988	Contains a foreword about the explanation of the 'weird' appearance of Optimus Prime
16	42 & 44	1988	The issue claimes the original comics are #42 and #43, but instead it's #42 and #44
Omnibus 1	13, 14, 17, 18 & TF:TM 1, 2 & 3	1989
17	43 & 45	1989	The issue claimes the original comics are #43 and #44, but instead it's #43 and #45
18	46 & 47	1989
19	48, 49 & UK#198	1989
20	50 & UK#188	1989
21	51 & 52	1989
22	53 & 54	1989
Omnibus 2	26, 27, 28, 29, 30 & 31	1990
Omnibus 3	38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43	1990
23	55 & 56	1990
24	57, 58 & 59	1990
25	60 & 61	1990
26	62 & 63	1990
27	64 & 65	1990
28	66 & 67	1990
Omnibus 4	43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 & UK#198	1991
Omnibus 5	50, UK#188, 51,52, 53 & 54	1991
29	68 & 69	1991
30	70 & 71	1991
31	72, 73 & 74	1991	Contains the first part of #74
32	74 & 75	1991	Last Dutch Issue. Continues from #74 and has a foreword about this being the last issue.
Omnibus 6	55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 & 61	1992
Omnibus 7	62, 63, 64, 65, 66 & 67	1992