Talk:Prisoner of War!

But the early Marvel issues clearly take place in the Marvel universe (references to the Savage land, SHIELD, Circuit Breaker in Secret Wars, etc).- DJ Convoy 11:10, 15 November 2006

The Marvel Transformers takes place on Earth-120185. --Crockalley 19:34, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Right- I was protesting the addition of "Spider-man's presence makes this an error, etc." which Walky already fixed. --DJ Convoy 19:48, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

No, Spiderman's appearance was not an honest-to-goodness error, but it IS an "error" in the sense that it should NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED! Was there any valid reason for randomly interjecting him into the storyline other than a marketing ploy by Marvel? Methinks not.

So what about the Savage Land appearance? Was Marvel doubtless trying to shamelessly raise sales of their Ka-Zar book? The Early Transformers books were set in the Marvel Universe, so it wasn't random at all. In fact, it's, well, more common than not for big Marvel guys to show up in new book -- not to raise sales for those big Marvel guys, but to raise sales for the new book. Marvel was trying to help out Transformers. (The direction of this ploy is confirmed. Sources state that Marvel tried to put Spider-Man into the book to help Transformers' sales, but Hasbro at first refused because Spider-Man toys were being sold by their competitors. But Marvel was, like, dude, we're trying to help you out. That's why he's in the black symbiote costume and backdated, because that's not a figure their competitors were selling.) Marketing ploy, yes, but... dude, these are comics. Merely being superheroes is already a marketing ploy. Being male is a marketing ploy. Always beating the bad guys is a marketing ploy. The Transformers comic book itself is a marketing ploy to sell the toyline. Your cynicism is kinda uneven. --ItsWalky 19:09, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

UK Printing

Did by chance Marvel UK #6 leave out US page 20, where Spiderman and gears finish off Ravage and face Soundwave? My UK scans skip that page, and I don't know if it was not in the comic (like the Autobot introduction pages from US 1, or if it's just a missing scan. --FortMax 01:56, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I just checked the issue and yes they did print it (in glorious black and white no less).Omnisvalidus 18:02, 2 March 2007 (UTC)