Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 1

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Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook #1
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published June 7, 2017
Cover date May 2017
Written by various
Art by various
Edits by David Mariotte and David Hedgecock

Acroyear to Duke!

Profiles

Other content

Notes

Profile notes

  • Arcee's profile tactfully avoids mentioning anything about her gender, and merely notes that Jhiaxus's experiments turned her into "a whirlwind of chaos."
  • Baron Daegon's entry spells his name "Daigon." That's how it was spelled when he first appeared in Micronauts #2, but later issues would switch to the "Daegon" spelling.
  • Bob, Buster, and D.0.C.'s profile is the only one without unique artwork created for it; it reuses art from the interior of The Transformers (vol. 1) #20, and the cover of The Transformers (vol. 2) #48.
  • Centurion's "historical first appearance" is given as Transformers UK #74, equating him with the human-built robot Centurion from that story, who had the same name but was otherwise a very different character.
  • All the actors and directors mentioned in Bulletman's profile hail from the Parker Brothers board game International Movie Maker... which may qualify for the most obscure reference ever made by an IDW author. Said profile also mentions Space Battle, from the Free Comic Book Day issue of IDW's 2015 Robots in Disguise comic, and the incident in which Bulletman saved the town of Poverty Flat by creating a makeshift dam is taken from the original advertisement for Bulletman's toy in the Adventure Team line.

Errors, omissions, and inconsistencies

  • Profiles are inconsistent on what constitutes a "first appearance," with some listing the first appearance of the character in either a cartoon episode or comic book issue, but others listing the release of their toy (which would always typically predate any fictional appearance). In the case of the Micronauts characters, it might have something to do with IDW not having the license to any of Marvel's Micronauts comics, and hence not wanting to, or not being able to, reference them—but it's notably inconsistent when Adventure Team members Bulletman and Atomic Man's first appearances are listed as 1975's toyline, while their contemporary Joe Colton's suggests he supposedly didn't exist until 1989's G.I. Joe #86.
  • Aileron's profile refers to the Mistress of Flame as the "Mistress of Light". It also spells Slag's name the original way rather than "Slug" as he had changed it to by that timeframe; additionally, "hot spot is spelled as "hotspot" and "Spacebridge" is rendered both that way and "Space Bridge".
    • Aileron's art depicts her with bright turquoise highlights, as opposed to her other comic appearances where her inner limb joints are consistently a muted gray-green.
  • Arcee's profile lists her place of birth as unknown, but in the already-released Optimus Prime #5 Arcee identifies herself as hailing from the Darklands, unless that's supposed to be a lie on her part. Arcee's profile also misspells Tarantulas's name as "Tarantulus".
  • Gloria Baker's first appearance is generically given as "M.A.S.K. TV series"; other profiles that cite TV series give specific episodes, and hers should be M.A.S.K. episode 2, "The Star Chariot".
  • The Baroness's profile omits Chameleon from her "known relatives" section; she's her half-sister.
  • Pauline Bestley's profile misrenders the Secret Intelligence Service as the "Special Intelligence Service and pluralizes "Americans" in an instance when it should be singular.
  • Blitzwing's profile uses both "Triple-Changer" and "Triple Changer".
  • Bryce Chan's profile misspells Governor's Island as "Governors' Island".
  • Cover Girl's profile weirdly omits the character's biggest solo adventure in IDW continuity, which was also her personal turning point and led to her joining the army: her victory over a group of Nanzhaoese pirates who attacked the set of a reality TV show she was starring in at the time. What's even stranger is the fact that this adventure (chronicled in G.I. Joe vol. 3 #6) is mentioned in Bulletman's profile!
  • In one instance, Doctor X's profile misspells Ian Noble as "Nobel".
  • Duke's profile, meanwhile, omits the fact that he was discharged from G.I. Joe during G.I. Joe vol. 3, making it sound as if he went straight from G.I. Joe back to the regular military instead of getting kicked out.

Other trivia

  • Originally solicited for release in May, this issue arrived a little late on the first week of June. Revolutionaries #5 and #6 were intended to have been released by the time the first Sourcebook was on shelves, but have been the victim of delays of their own, meaning that several key plot points from those issues are spoiled in the profiles for Atomic Man and Centurion.

Other printings

Several of the profiles shown were previously published as backmatter in issues of Revolution and other Hasbro Universe comics:

Shortened versions of Acroyear, Action Man, Arcee, Aura, the Baroness, Baron Karza, Blackrock, Blitzwing, Joe Colton, and Doctor X's profiles were also released as trading cards through a Revolution-themed Humble Bundle.

Covers (3)

  • Regular cover: Wraparound cover of the characters profiled in this issue, by Fico Ossio and Jordi Escuin
  • Subscription cover: A selection of the G.I. Joe and M.A.S.K. characters profiled in this issue, by Sam Lotfi and Jordi Escuin
  • Retailer incentive cover: The heroes and villains of ROM and Micronauts, by Marcelo Borstelmann

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