Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is a comic book company in the Generation 1 and real world continuity families.

One of the twin titans of the comic-book industry, Marvel published to date the longest run of consecutive Transformers comics, from 1984-1990, and picked up again for a year of "Generation 2" in 1993. Though the original cartoon was the most recognizable portion of Transformers media, the Marvel comic was published earlier and lasted for years longer.

Most Marvel issues were written by one of two people:

• Bob Budiansky, who edited the original 4-issue limited series before becoming the first permanent writer of the ongoing series, and is credited with creating most of the backstory to the Transformers mythos, as well as writing most of the Tech Specs that came with the Hasbro toys.
• Simon Furman, who had been the main writer for the Marvel UK series before being asked by Budiansky to write for the US comic, as well. Furman wrote approximately last 1/3 of the original US series, and continued on to do the Generation 2 series.

• Generation 1 (Marvel Comics)
• Generation 2 (Marvel Comics)
• Headmasters (comic)
• G.I. Joe and the Transformers
• Transformers: The Movie comic adaptation
• Transformers Universe (Marvel comic)

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel Comics published the ridiculously terrible Robot-Master comic book series. It did not, however, publish a Potato Salad Man graphic novel entitled This Man, This Mayonnaise.

The real Marvel never published the Robot-Master series, presumably due to the nonexistance of its creator, Donny Finkleberg.

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.