The Worse of Two Evils!

Hum "Ride of the Valkyries" here.

Shockwave captures an oil-drilling platform, then is challenged by Megatron for command of the Decepticons.

Marvel US issue #6

(Story also appears in: Marvel UK issue #24-25)

Script: Bob Budiansky
Art: Alan Kupperberg
Lettering: Rick Parker
Colors: Nelson Yomtov
Editor: Jim Owsley

• Major characters (in order of appearance): Shockwave, G.B. Blackrock, Josie Beller, Megatron, Optimus Prime, Buster Witwicky, Ratchet
• Originally published: July, 1985

Synopsis

Shockwave single-handedly attacks and captures the Blackrock oil-drilling platform. In the process, designer Josie Beller is severly injured. Inside the Ark, Optimus Prime's still-living head instructs Buster to connect two wires from Prime's forehead to Buster's own. This results in an electric shock, knocking Buster unconscious. However, he remains unnoticed by the Decepticons, and returns to Ratchet to report his findings. Meanwhile, Megatron challenges Shockwave for command of the Decepticons, but is defeated. Shockwave returns to the Ark with Megatron's injured form to use as a demonstration to the other Decepticons of what they can expect if they challenge him.

Errors

• On page 22, Ratchet has a Decepticon symbol.
• Josie Beller looks about 10 years older (and about half as bubbly) than she did in the previous issue.

Items of note

• The last panel on page 14 (Shockwave being blasted out of Mount St. Hilary across town) looks like it was drawn by an entirely different artist. (Probably William Johnson, who draws Shockwave in that more toy-accurate style in the next two issues.)
  
  
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