Transformers: Best of the Rarities
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| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | August 3, 2022 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Various | ||||||||||||
| Artists | Various | ||||||||||||
| Editors | Various | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Various | ||||||||||||
| Price | $6.99 USD | ||||||||||||
The Transformers: Best of the Rarities, published by IDW Publishing, is a collection of some of the rarest, hardest-to-find material from the franchise's 40-year history. It also includes some never-before-seen unpublished works.
Contents
- Deathbringer parts 1 & 2 (coloured), Marvel UK issues 235-6
- Ghosts (1993 G2 Halloween special)
- The Wind of Change (a mini story from Marvel UK issue 183, depicting Dreadwind taking over from Grimlock as the character being role-played for the letters page)
- The Night the Transformers Saved Christmas (A Woman’s Day exclusive story from 1985)
- Dreadwind's Xmas! (a text story from TF UK 304, covering Dreadwind's replacement as letters page avatar by Action Master Blaster)
- Two Megatrons (coloured) Marvel UK 244
- Another Time and Place (the text story from the TFUK 1992 Annual, ending the Marvel continuity at the time)
- An Arcee Sort of Day (from the Synergy anthology produced for International Woman’s Day 2019)
- Untitled (Forman/Roche script from an Australian DVD release)
- Perchance to Dream: Galvatron (coloured) Marvel UK 260
- Starting Over (coloured) Marvel UK 261
- Untitled (pilot for European comic published in toy catalogues; new translation)
- Five never-before-seen b&w one-page strips by Simon Furman and Robin Smith. (Created in 1989, originally destined for the Sunday Times' Funday Times supplement).
- 50 examples of hand-painted covers (minus cover furniture), pencilled artwork (including some from Target: 2006), unused TFUK and IDW covers, rare posters, and pages from unpublished stories.
