Underworld!
| This article is about the Marvel issue. For other uses of "Underworld", see Underworld (disambiguation) |
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| "Underworld!" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| First published | 18th November 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 25th November 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Art | Jeff Anderson | ||||||||||||
| Letterer | Helen Stone | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity (Marvel UK) | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | Unclear, possibly in far past | ||||||||||||
Initiation rituals turn out to be more than meets the eye...
Synopsis
In caverns deep underground on Cybertron, three Autobot Military Academy cadets—Subsea, Tailgate, and Flattop—hide as a group of mutant Transformers hunt for them. Once the mutants have passed them, the three Autobots move off, though Flattop is frozen with fear.
Up on the surface, Pipes and Outback comment that initiations in the Underworld went out with the Ark but Flattop was headstrong and talked the others going in. Outback and Pipes agree to go in to rescue their fellows.
Down below, the mutants find the Autobots and kill first Subsea then Flattop. Before they can kill Tailgate, he blasts Smeltdown's furnace, triggering an explosion which kills all the mutants bar Rotgut. Tailgate throws the survivor into the pyre as Outback and Pipes arrive to find their help is not needed.
But the explosion has released something else, something that has not fed in countless years...
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Mutants | Others |
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Quotes
Notes
Artwork and technical errors
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Continuity errors
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Continuity notes
- This is the first appearance of Tailgate (bar a one panel cameo in "Resurrection!") and Pipes.
- It's not at all clear when the story is set. All three Mini-Autobots are cadets at the academy, but in his previous appearances Outback was a regular soldier.
Real-life references
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Other trivia
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Back-up material
- Additional Transformers story: "The Resurrection Gambit!"
- Other strips: Action Force - "Evasion" and GI Joe the Action Force - "Divided We Fall!"
- "Divided We Fall!" was a mini-comic detailing how the European Action Force and its American counterpart G.I. Joe have merged to form G.I. Joe the Action Force, a name change that would be carried over to the back-up comic strips from issue #248 and the cover from issue #249, as well as the toyline. The mini-comic was also printed in The Incredible Hulk Presents #8, which was published the same week, as well as being given away free in some toy shops.
Foreign Localization
Swedish
- Title: "Den Undre Världen" ("The World Below")
Cover
- Issue #245 cover: Tailgate hides from a Mutant, by Andy Wildman.
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Issue #245
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Reprints
- Transformers: Aspects of Evil (June 1, 2005) ISBN 1845760557 / ISBN 978-1845760557
- Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection: Vol 19: Perchance to Dream (August 23, 2017)
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Aspects of Evil; cover art by Stephen Baskerville -
The Definitive G1 Collection Vol. 19; cover art by Guido Guidi and Stephen Baskerville
