Talk:The Transformers (issue)
Y'know, that cover art definitely looks like it was done by Bill Sienkiewicz, not Frank Springer. Should we list credits for cover artist? Or am I mistaken about who did the art? JW 13:37, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
- It is absolutely a Sienkiewicz cover. I'll add a cover credit. --Steve-o 03:26, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
- I see Blackrock removed the cover credit . . . I would say that when the cover artist is different from the interior artist for a comic, the cover artist should get a credit on the page for the comic book, not just on the page for the image. Discussion? JW 16:02, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, I think the cover artist should get credit, and I'm not sure why they're being removed, despite being credited elsewhere. --ItsWalky 18:56, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
- I see Blackrock removed the cover credit . . . I would say that when the cover artist is different from the interior artist for a comic, the cover artist should get a credit on the page for the comic book, not just on the page for the image. Discussion? JW 16:02, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure that my adding the UK cover credits below the US cover credit is the best solution, but I wanted to get them in there. Anyone have any better ideas? --Monzo 12:11, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
- I think the standard on other pages where a small UK section of the bottom of the article listing such things as providing space for UK cover images to be posted, and details about covers, changes and letter pages (see Totaled! for a good example) seems to be best option Cyc 22:59, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Release Date
If it was released on May 29, 1984, how come the first Usenet review is from May 22? JW 20:33, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
- If you check out the United States Copyright Office website, the publication dates of most Transformers comics can be found with a little searching. The first four issues are listed with publication dates of:
- #1 - May 8, 1984
- #2 - Jul 10, 1984
- #3 - Sep 11, 1984
- #4 - Nov 13, 1984
- As can be seen, they're consistently four months away from their cover dates. The last two dates are contradicted by the intended publication dates as listed in Marvel Age, but the listed publication date of #1 on the Copyrights website is quite definitively well before that first online review. -- Jon T 21:38, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Cover gallery
Is there a way to force all five covers onto a single line? #5 looks ridiculous floating down there by itself in an otherwise empty row. -- Repowers 11:34, 12 May 2009 (EDT)
- There is a way, as per the formatting information at wikimedia. You need to enter e.g. gallery perrow="X" as appropriate. I have done this; you can change it back if you feel it doesn't work on a narrower screen resolution. -Ashley Pomeroy 13:21, 13 August 2009 (EDT)
Autobot spread
Re: the Note about the two-page Autobot introduction spread. Are you sure? I have (sadly detached from its parent comic) this two-page spread in UK format. I'd have to actually find it to determine what's on the back, but the edges have, as I recall, a thick red border, and I never had either the first Annual or any of the Collected Comics. My memory of when I was a kid was that the spread was in issue #1, simply transplanted to the centerfold to take advantage of that being where the color printing was (which would help explain why I have it detached as a single piece). -LV 21:55, 15 March 2011 (EDT)
- It's certainly absent from the Collected Comics edition and according to the TF Archive guide it was also cut from issue #2: [1] The text covering the omission is "THEIR EXIT DOES NOT GO UNNOTICED" under the panel of two jets and an, erm, tape player flying and "THE AUTOBOTS, TOO, HAVE RISEN..." above the panel of Prime requesting a damage report from Huffer.
- My copy of the 1985/6 annual is presently elsewhere but ISTR that it has a red border - maybe it was reprinting the feature from somewhere in the regular comic? The second annual certainly got its checklist features from there. Timrollpickering 12:33, 16 March 2011 (EDT)
