Transformers: Dark Designs

This article is about the Titan Books collection. For the Beast Wars episode, see Dark Designs (episode).

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You'd be angry too if Grimlock's toe took up your valuable cover space.
Dark Designs
Publisher	Titan Books
First published	September 2002 (TPB), October 2002 (HC)
Writer	Simon Furman
Pencilers	Manny Galan, Derek Yaniger & Andrew Wildman
Inkers	Derek Yaniger, Jim Amash, Marie Severin & Stephen Baskerville
Colorists	Sarra Mossoff & Chia-Chi Wang
Letterers	Richard Starkings & John Gaushell
Editor	Rob Tokar
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity

Dark Designs, published by Titan Books, is the name of the first Generation 2 trade paperback, which contains the first six issues of the original US Transformers comics published by Marvel.

Contents

• "Eating My Words", a preface by Simon Furman
• "Prophetic Words," a preface by Richard Starkings
• A recap of the Generation 1 series
• A recap of the G.I. Joe issues leading into Generation 2
• War Without End!
• All or Nothing!
• Primal Fear!
• Devices and Desires!
• The Power and the Glory
• The Gathering Darkness
• Cover Gallery

Stats

ISBN 1-84023-525-X
ISBN 1-84023-527-6 (hardcover)
List Price: $19.95, £14.99
Printed in Italy

Items of Note

• Omits Marvel Transformers: Generation 2 #0, "Ghosts", a promotional issue taking place prior to #1. It was not part of the ongoing storyline but was originally re-printed as a backup story in Transformers: Generation 2 #2.
• The covers for #1-3 are slotted seemingly randomly amongst the story pages of #1.

Covers

• TPB cover art: Megatron, Swoop, Bludgeon, Grimlock's toe and half of the Liege Maximo, by Andy Wildman.
• Hardback cover art: Megatron and the graves of Starscream, Bludgeon, Fortress Maximus and Optimus Prime, by John Byrne and Chris Blythe.

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