Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!
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 Rodimus realises that Galvatron has eaten the last muffin! | |||||||||||||
| "Wanted: Galvatron - Dead or Alive!" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 16th May - 23rd May 1987 | ||||||||||||
| Script | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Art | Geoff Senior (113) | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Will Simpson (114) | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Tim Perkins (114) | ||||||||||||
| Colours | Steve White | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Annie Halfacree (113), Richard Starkings (114) | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Ian Rimmer? | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity | ||||||||||||
Rodimus Prime offers a bounty on the missing Galvatron which attracts the attention of Death’s Head.
Synopsis
Unable to find any trace of Galvatron after he threw him out of Unicron, Rodimus Prime in desperation places a bounty of 10,000 Shanix on him, dead or alive. This attracts the attention of Death’s Head, a bounty hunter (he prefers to be called a freelance peacekeeping agent).
Determined to claim the reward, Death’s Head tracks down Cyclonus and Scourge and beats out of them the details of how they and Galvatron travelled back in time. Target: 2006 Realising that Galvatron has probably fled back to the past Death’s Head decides to follow him.
Cyclonus and Scourge return to Decepticon headquarters and tell Nautilus, a deep cover Autobot spy, about how Death’s Head beat them up. Nautilus breaks cover and tells Rodimus Prime what he has learned. Rodimus is appalled at what he has set in motion.
In the past Bumblebee witnesses First Aid being displaced to Limbo as Death’s Head arrives. Unwilling to allow any witnesses to know he is there, Death’s Head blows Bumblebee apart.
Featured Characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Errors
- Bumblebee is shown as being functional in 2007, despite being destroyed in 1987 and rebuilt as Goldbug (although as he is later rebuilt again back into Pretender Bumblebee maybe this isn't an error after all).
Items of note
- This is the first appearance of Death’s Head in Transformers.
- This is the first part of a story arc that continues in "Burning Sky!", "Hunters!", "Fire on High!" and "Vicious Circle!"
- This story sees Bumblebee destroyed, ready to be rebuilt as Goldbug in "Hunters!" This is an alternate origin to that shown in G.I. Joe and the Transformers.
- Nobody can remember Galvatron travelling to Earth's past. Ultra Magnus and Bumblebee are around in both timelines but it's possible the alternate reality theory of time travel is in operation.
- Wreck-Gar is uncharacteristically quite quiet in this issue, dropping only one of the many "British Junkionisms" that he would fling about with abandon in later stories. Here, he refers to Bob's Full House, a BBC quiz show from the late 1980s.
Back-Up Stories
Issue #113:
- The Inhumanoids - "Coming of the Inhumanoids" Part 11
- Robo-Capers
Issue #114:
- The Inhumanoids - "Coming of the Inhumanoids" Part 12
- Robo-Capers
Reprints
- This story was reprinted in issues #221–224 of the UK comic.
- It was reprinted again in the Titan Books trade paperback "Fallen Angel".
Covers (7)
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Issue #113 -
Issue #114 -
Issue #221 -
Issue #222
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Issue #223 -
Issue #224 -
Fallen Angel TPB
- Issue #113 cover: Rodimus Prime is as mad as hell and he's not going to take it any more, by Geoff Senior.
- Issue #114 cover: Wreck-Gar tries to sell us a flaming Winnebago, by Jeff Anderson.
- Issue #221 cover: Springer & Skids/Death's Head split cover by Jeff Anderson.
- UK issue #222 cover: Springer and Carnivac chow on Nightmare Ant, by Simon Coleby.
- Issue #223 cover: The Air Strike Patrol give Scorponok the business, by Geoff Senior.
- Issue #224 cover: Is Rodimus Prime gonna have to choke a bitch?, by Geoff Senior.
- Fallen Angel TPB cover: Death's Head, by Lee Sullivan?
