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'''Transformers Digest''' is a [[wikipedia:digest_size|digest size]] publication produced by [[Marvel Comics]] for the American newsstand market | '''Transformers Digest''' is a ten-issue, by-monthly[[wikipedia:digest_size|digest size]] publication produced by [[Marvel Comics]] for the American newsstand and direct market from January 1987 to July 1988. | ||
Priced at US$1.50 / CDN$1.75, each issue collected 2 issues of the [[Generation 1 (Marvel Comics)|Marvel Comics series]] along with character profiles from the [[Transformers Universe (Marvel comic)|Transformers Universe]] series, with only limited in-house advertisements. The ten issues produced covered the first 20 issues of the Transformers comic. | |||
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!align=center bgcolor=#6699CC|'''<font color="white">Marvel US Transformers Magazine Issues:</font>''' | |||
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|| [[Transformers Digest #1|#1]] | [[Transformers Digest #2|#2]] | [[Transformers Digest #3|#3]] | [[Transformers Digest #4|#4]] | [[Transformers Digest #5|#5]] | [[Transformers Digest #6|#6]] | [[Transformers Digest #7|#7]] | [[Transformers Digest #8|#8]] | [[Transformers Digest #9|#9]] | [[Transformers Digest #10|#10]] | |||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
* The covers of the digests, were re-colored closely adhering to the original layouts, probably for technical reasons related to the printing process used. | [[Image:Transformers_Digest-Contents.jpg|right|300px|Clearly the Reader's Digest Large Type version on the right.]] | ||
* The covers of the digests, were re-colored closely adhering to the original layouts, probably for technical reasons related to the printing process used. | |||
* The first four issues of the Digest carried blank inside covers and ran standard publishing information at the bottom of the first page. Starting at #5, the Digests moved to print a contents page on the inside cover, listing the issues of the comic reprinted and the editors involved. The inside back cover then depicted black and white art from previous issues. | |||
* Digest #9's cover (pictured above) radically departed from the original coloring of issue #17. The hellish colors ''may'' have been considered inappropriate for the entry-level newsstand market. (The other issue in that edition, #18, featured a non-key background on its cover significantly more complicated to re-create than the other Digest re-colorings.) | * Digest #9's cover (pictured above) radically departed from the original coloring of issue #17. The hellish colors ''may'' have been considered inappropriate for the entry-level newsstand market. (The other issue in that edition, #18, featured a non-key background on its cover significantly more complicated to re-create than the other Digest re-colorings.) | ||
* Advertisements in Transformers Digest | * Advertisements in Transformers Digest imply [[The_Transformers_(Marvel_comic)|The Transformers Comic]] was part of Marvel's [[wikipedia:Star_Comics|Star Comics]] kid-oriented comic line. Transformers was never published under the Star imprint. | ||
[[Category:Comics]] | [[Category:Comics]] | ||
Revision as of 19:54, 16 January 2010
Transformers Digest is a ten-issue, by-monthlydigest size publication produced by Marvel Comics for the American newsstand and direct market from January 1987 to July 1988.
Priced at US$1.50 / CDN$1.75, each issue collected 2 issues of the Marvel Comics series along with character profiles from the Transformers Universe series, with only limited in-house advertisements. The ten issues produced covered the first 20 issues of the Transformers comic.
| Marvel US Transformers Magazine Issues: |
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| #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 | #9 | #10 |
Trivia
- The covers of the digests, were re-colored closely adhering to the original layouts, probably for technical reasons related to the printing process used.
- The first four issues of the Digest carried blank inside covers and ran standard publishing information at the bottom of the first page. Starting at #5, the Digests moved to print a contents page on the inside cover, listing the issues of the comic reprinted and the editors involved. The inside back cover then depicted black and white art from previous issues.
- Digest #9's cover (pictured above) radically departed from the original coloring of issue #17. The hellish colors may have been considered inappropriate for the entry-level newsstand market. (The other issue in that edition, #18, featured a non-key background on its cover significantly more complicated to re-create than the other Digest re-colorings.)
- Advertisements in Transformers Digest imply The Transformers Comic was part of Marvel's Star Comics kid-oriented comic line. Transformers was never published under the Star imprint.
