Transformers: The Battle of the Star Gate
Transformers: The Stargate Battles (トランスフォーマー スターゲート戦役 Transformer Stargate Sen'eki) is a manga written and drawn by Naoto Tsushima and published from issues 11 to 14 of Super Robot Magazine in 2003. The story is set in the 1990s, in the intermezzo between the end of the second season of the original cartoon series and The Transformers: The Movie. Cut short by the cancellation of Super Robot Magazine with its fourteenth issue, "The Stargate Battles" is something of an obscure "forgotten adventure", but was nonetheless incorporated into 2007's Japanese cartoon continuity timeline, its unresolved events helping to incorporate Car Robots into continuity.
In 2009, Brain-Navi compiled all four chapters into one volume.
Synopsis
Near the end of the 20th century, the Transformers form an alliance with the humans. Together they start to develop a large transportation gate named "Trigger" as a symbol of amicability. However, the Decepticons have their eyes on the gate, and so does somebody else.
Issues
Characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Others |
|---|---|---|---|
Collected edition
ISBN 4904293266
ISBN 978-4904293263
Title: The Battle of Star Gate (printed in English on the cover)
Pagecount: 192
Publisher: Brain-Navi Comics
Date published: June 29, 2009
Price: 1,751 yen
Notes
- The collected edition features a reversible dust jacket cover, as shown in the above two pictures, with Optimus being the default side while Megatron's side lacks any of the ISBN information and bar code.
- Disappointingly, the collected edition did NOT keep the first several pages colored in "First Contact" as they originally appeared in Super Robot Magazine, Brain-Navi Comics opting for a gray-scale version of the pages.
