Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 22

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Publisher	Condor Verlag
Cover date	August 1992
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity
Price	3.50 DM

Contents

Reprints

• The Transformers (Marvel UK) #168-169 - "Meltdown!" Parts 1 & 2

Notes

• The text story is largely a recycled version of the story published in issue 5. Except that story was credited to Robert Mann, yet this one is credited to Michael Rubin! Since the original story itself was apparently reycled from an issue of the M.A.S.K. Comic-Magazin, published by Interpart, one of Condor's alternate identities/imprints, it's possible that Rubin was the original writer of the M.A.S.K. version, and this version finally credits him properly. All the spelling and faction attribution errors present in the version published in issue 5 (such as "Submaroder", and Ruckus being listed among the Autobots) are still present in this version, with the most notable change being the fact that Bumblebee is called "Goldbug" now... who is still equipped with a Pretender shell. Which can still transform into a Volkswagen Beetle. And like Bumblebee in the original version, Goldbug is also "tied up and gagged" by the Decepticons. However that is supposed to work with that mouthplate of his.
• The translated comic is titled "Hotter than a Thousand Suns".

Errors

• In the version of the story published in issue 5, the Decepticons are said to be attacking nuclear power plants and refineries in "small groups". In this version, it's specifically the Decepticon Pretenders who are said to be attacking those locations in "one man teams", which is utterly contradictory.
• In the version of the story published in issue 5, Jazz assumes the Decepticons have deployed the Firecons to the cities, and suggests deploying the Sparkabots to deal with them. In this version, a group called the "Sparkler-Cons" (!) are explicitly said to have been deployed to terrorize the cities together with the Powermasters. Jazz then elaborates that the Decepticons have sent the "Sparkler Minibots" and the Firecons to the cities, and again has the Sparkabots deal with them. In the Marvel UK comics (translated versions of the relevant stories were published in issues of the Comic-Magazin), "Sparkler Mini-Bots" was used an alternate name for the Sparkabots, not a separate group, whereas in the text story from Comic-Magazin #12 (which was partially recycled for Comic-Taschenbuch #3), "Sparkler Minibots" was used as a super-category for bot the Sparkabots and the Firecons. Meanwhile, the term "Sparkler-Cons" is completely unique to this particular version of this text story.
• The Triggerbots fight against the... Triggerbots? Presumably, those were meant to be the Triggercons.