Transformers: Legacy of Unicron

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Transformers: Legacy of Unicron
Publisher	Titan Books
First published	24 January, 2003
Writer	Simon Furman
Art	Bryan Hitch, Dan Reed, Geoff Senior
Pencillers	Jeff Anderson
Inkers	Stephen Baskerville, Geoff Senior
Colorists	Nick Abadzis, Euan Peters, Steve White
Letterers	Annie Halfacree, Richard Starkings, GLIB
Editors	Chris Francis
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity
TPB ISBN	ISBN 1-84023-578-0
Price	$19.95, £14.99
Printed in	Italy

Transformers: Legacy of Unicron is the third trade paperback to be published by Titan Books in their reprint series of colour Marvel UK comics. Flitting between the present-day and the future stories, it covers the twin threats of Galvatron and Unicron as they threaten the Transformers in each time zone.

Contents

• "Transformers: UK", a brief history of the Marvel UK comic between issues #121–153.
• "Transformers: The Movie", an essay summarising (unsurprisingly) The Transformers: The Movie, reprinted from Transformers: Target: 2006.
• "Headhunt"
• "Ladies' Night"
• "The Legacy of Unicron!"
• "Enemy Action!"

Cover

• Cover art: Unicron fires his eye-beams at Wreck-Gar, Rodimus Prime and Death's Head, by Geoff Senior and Oliver Harud.

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• Dreamwave Productions's "Transformers: the Comic Book" (and Transformers Armada mentioned in a footnote)
• Robot Wars Magazine

Notes

• The introduction to the book explains the background to the UK stories collected within as well as real world events that shaped its evolution such as how Simon Furman managed to become editor whilst still being the primary writer and how the inclusion of the Headmasters mini-series was grudgingly accepted despite the tie in US reprints being some way off.
• The intro dates Ian Rimmer's departure from the editor's chair to "the latter months of 1987", and Furman's takeover being "business as usual for the first few issues, which reprinted US issues 28-29", thereby implying that Furman took the reins from TFUK issue 121.
• Furman's first version of the Transformers origin story was apparently written without consulting the US editorial office.