Danny Phillips
- Danny Phillips is a human in the Marvel Comics UK portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Fiction
Marvel Comics UK
In September 1985 Danny Phillips was caught in a fire when inept burglars attempted to blow up a bank vault in New York City. He was rescued by Inferno, Hoist and other Autobots. Danny's rescue had a profound affect on him, and he became convinced that the Transformers had come to Earth to promote peace and understanding. He filled several scrapbooks with newspaper clippings, trying to figure out where they’d appear next. Gradually, this grew to an obsession. He withdrew from his friends, and his grades began to slip.
'Now,' in winter early in 1986, his mother Jennifer has taken him out of school for a vacation away from the city in Charlton. which was having the worst winter in 20 years. Cold on the coast, dirty beaches, shops and arcades closed in the off-season, etc.
The Return of the Transformers
Associated Characters
Jenifer Phillips
Jenifer Phillips is Danny's mother and sole legal guardian. She failed to notice as her son alienated himself from all his friends the the moment his grades slipped she decided his interest in robots was a 'silly obsession' that she refused to recognize was important to him.
Some word choices in the story would seem to imply that Danny had an abusive father, but that was never explicitly established.
Simpson
Simpson is a kindly janitor that works at the Charlton Hotel. He takes sympathy on Danny being stuck here during the worst dead season with all of the shops closed, and answers his questions about the town, including the Charlton Power Plant.
