Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics
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Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics is a graphic novel released in 2002 by Million Publishing. Transformers: The Comics effectively collects every issue of the original Generation 1 Transformers manga published in the pages of TV Magazine.
All stories were written by Masumi Kaneda with all artwork provided by Ban Magami.
Vital stats
- Pages: 639
- ISBN Number: ISBN 4-8130-0093-2
- Original retail price: 2800 yen
Contents
Comics
- Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (prologue and 8 issues)
- The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers (5 issues)
- The Great Transformer War (3 issues)
- "Great Decisive Battle of Planet Beast!" (special)
- The Headmasters (8 issues)
- Super-God Masterforce (12 issues)
- Victory (10 issues)
- Zone (special)
- The Battlestars (special)
Bonus material
- Gallery of select original episode-themed artwork by Ban Magami spanning all Generation 1 series.
- Two pieces of guest artwork.
- 6 page interview with Ban Magami.
Alterations
Some issues were modified in order to fit this condensed, black and white collection.
- The Super Robot Lifeform prologue was originally published in color, but rendered in black and white for this publication.
- The Zone special is oddly printed backward, with the last page first and the first page last.
- The Battlestars special is perhaps the most perplexing, with each original page reduced in size, rotated clockwise onto their side and stacked two per page. A quality-disrupting space-saving measure, to be sure.
