Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics
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| Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics 戦え!超ロボット生命体トランスフォーマーザ★コミックス
(Tatakae! Chōrobotto Seimeitai Toransufōmā Za Komikkusu) | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Million Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | October 23, 2002 | ||||||||||||
| Story | Masumi Kaneda | ||||||||||||
| Art | Ban Magami | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Japanese Generation 1 | ||||||||||||
| ISBN | ISBN 4813000932 ISBN 978-4813000938 | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 639 | ||||||||||||
| Price | 2800 Yen | ||||||||||||
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics is a graphic novel released in 2002 by Million Publishing. Transformers: The Comics effectively collects every issue of the original Generation 1 Transformers manga published in the pages of TV Magazine.
All stories were written by Masumi Kaneda with all artwork provided by Ban Magami.
An official English translation is set to be released by Viz Media in 2020 under the title Transformers: The Manga.
Contents
Comics
- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (prologue and 8 issues)
- The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers (5 issues)
- The Great Transformer War (3 issues)
- "Great Decisive Battle of Planet Beast!" (special)
- The Headmasters (8 issues)
- Super-God Masterforce (12 issues)
- Victory (10 issues)
- Zone (special)
- The Battlestars (special)
Bonus material
- Gallery of select original episode-themed artwork by Ban Magami spanning all Generation 1 series.
- Two pieces of guest artwork.
- 6 page interview with Ban Magami.
Alterations
Some issues were modified in order to fit this condensed, black and white collection.
- The Super Robot Lifeform prologue was originally published in color, but rendered in black and white for this publication.
- The Zone special is oddly printed backward, with the last page first and the first page last.
- The Battlestars special is perhaps the most perplexing, with each original page reduced in size, rotated clockwise onto their side and stacked two per page. A quality-disrupting space-saving measure, to be sure.
Contest
- To help promote the book, a contest was held in conjunction with its release. Someone who purchased a copy of the book could mail in a black slip that was wrapped around its cover, earning them a chance to win a black version of the original Tracks toy (called, creatively enough, "Black Tracks"). 300 Black Tracks toys were awarded through this competition.
