Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 52

	; All Other Contestants Inferior
Publisher	Fun Publications
First published	early August
Cover date	Aug/Sept 13
MTMTE Profiles	Dan Khanna
Contributors	David Willis; Greg Black; Jim Sorenson; Bill Forster; Derrick J. Wyatt; S. Trent Troop; Greg Sepelak; Richard Chang; Benson Yee
Editor	Pete Sinclair
Associate editor	Jesse Wittenrich
Creative Director	Lanny Lathem
Research editor	Karl Hartman
Editor-in-chief	Brian Savage

From the world of cosplay, a champion arose at BotCon 2013... SOUNDWAVE SUPERIOR!

On the cover: BotCon 2013's costume contest winner in their Soundwave costume (p. 1)
Inside cover: "Brian's Bytes and Bolts", "From the Editor's Desk" (p. 2)
"Mastering the Art of the Game," an interview with George Gomez, Vice President at Stern Pinball (pp. 3 & 13)
"BotCon 2013 in San Diego!" a recap of the convention (pp. 4-6)
"Shattered Hope" - comic story (pp. 7-12)
Bios in the style of More than Meets the Eye:
- Classics Ultra Mammoth (p. 14)
- Classics Megatron (p. 15)
"The Back Cover..." (p. 16)
- Transformers I.Q.
- Recordicons
- Transformers I.Q. Trivia Bonus

Notes

Characters mentioned in Ultra Mammoth's profile include: the Dinobots, Grimlock, Optimus Prime, Ironworks, Megatron, and Depth Charge.
- The name "Ultra Mammoth" is explained as Magnus adopting Grimlock's jab as his new name.
- Magnus is noted to be a stickler to rules, a tic shared by his IDW 2005 counterpart in More than Meets the Eye. He is described as a "shield others can rally behind when the hour is darkest," referencing both his appellation as "Cybertron's Greatest Warrior" from the Marvel UK The Transformers comics, and the "darkest hour" prophecy originating from The Transformers: The Movie.
- Grimlock called Magnus "Little Prime" in "Games of Deception".
- The distress call the Graviton received from Ironworks presumably came during Ultra Magnus initial attack on the facility in "Invasion".
Characters mentioned in Megatron's profile include: Bludgeon, Ironworks, and Optimus Prime.
- Megatron's several brushes with death are mentioned; his apparent death in #25 after destroying the space bridge; his apparent death at the hands of Ratchet in issue #59; and his apparent death after the Ark crashed a second time in #79.
- Megatron's manipulations of the human race, along with his retaking of the Decepticons from Bludgeon, were seen in "At Fight's End".
Megatron last got a profile in issue #17.

Ultra Mammoth's profile states "After leaving the ship to return to earth," not capitalizing the E in Earth.