Transformers: Best of the Rarities
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 This title is incredibly misleading. Rarity doesn't even show up once. | |||||||||||||
| The Rarities | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | August 3, 2022 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Various | ||||||||||||
| Artists | Various | ||||||||||||
| Editors | James Roberts | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Various | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 99 | ||||||||||||
| Price | $6.99 USD | ||||||||||||
Transformers: Best of the Rarities is a one-shot reprint comic published by IDW Publishing. Part of a larger "Best of" line spanning multiple IDW licensed properties, the book collects various stories, largely from Marvel UK.
Overview
Best of the Rarities contains some hard-to-find Transformers stories from the series’ almost 40-year history and some never-before-reprinted material from the U.S. and the UK. Like the other books in the IDW "Best of" line, the collection features new cover art by James Biggie.
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 & 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 (Furman/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pencilled artwork (including some from Target: 2006), unused TFUK and IDW covers, rare posters, and pages from unpublished stories.
