Transformers Comic-Taschenbuch issue 2

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Publisher	Condor Verlag
First published	1990
Editor	Wolfgang M. Biehler
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity
Price	4 DM

Contents

Transformers in action: TRUST NO DECEPTICON

The Autobots are holding a secret conference with various world leaders, during which they want to inform the humans about a major threat. Scenes highlighting various Decepticon attacks are shown on monitors. Powermaster Optimus Prime then orders various Autobot units to intervene in these crises.

Subsequently, Bumblebee takes charge of the conference and explains the difference between Autobots and Decepticons.

One of the Autobots' missions to secure a nuclear power plant goes haywire, though, as Bumblebee suddenly transforms from a Volkswagen into a Decepticon. As it turns out, the Decepticons have captured the Autobot and placed Submaroder inside his Pretender shell. The Autobots manage to defeat the Decepticons, Submaroder returns Bumblebee's Pretender shell, and the Autobots once again assure the humans attending the conference of their good intentions. (source)

Reprints

• The Transformers (Marvel US) #23 - "Decepticon Graffiti!"
• The Transformers (Marvel US) #24 - "Afterdeath!"
• The Transformers (Marvel US) #25 - "Gone but Not Forgotten!"
• The Transformers (Marvel US) #26 - "Funeral for a Friend!"

Notes

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• After Bumblebee takes charge of the conference, the exact whereabouts of Powermaster Optimus Prime are never explained. Instead of closing the conference himself, he is only mentioned in third person at the end. Did he go AWOL again?
• The summary of the Decepticons' activities, and the part where Bumblebee is captured and Submarauder Submaroder is placed in his Pretender shell, are both recycled from Comic-Magazin #5, with some altered wording and rearranged sentences. All the errors and inconsistencies that applied to the original version of the story still apply here. However, it could very well be that the original version of this story was actually published in an issue of the M.A.S.K. Comic-Magazin, published by Interpart, one of Condor's alternate identities/imprints, with the names of characters and locations swapped out for the Transformers version.
• The Autobots sure are preachy for beings that have been engaged in a civil war for the past four million years, accusing humans of being involved in "petty national conflicts"…
• The translated version of "Funeral for a Friend!" suffers from the downsized format of the publication, as the lettering size does not allow for the full names of the various Autobots in the group shots to fit into the captions. The result are a large number of incomplete names such as "Air", "Fire", "Beach", "Wheel", "Aid" and "Wise".

Errors

• In typical Condor fashion, Submarauder is once again spelled "Submaroder" in the text story.

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