In the Beginning...
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| First published | September 1986 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 1987 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity | ||||||||||||
A human hacker logs into the Decepticon mainframe and reads an overview of the Autobot/Decepticon war.
Synopsis
Teen hacker Adam Reynolds mis-dials while trying to reach his local bank and instead reaches the Decepticon mainframe computer. A fluke results in him typing the correct access code, and he reads in amazement the history of the Autobot/Decepticon war.
However, Adam inadvertently triggers a security system when he tries to access a file his code doesn't give him access to. The Decepticon Mainframe Computer sends a 1,000,000 volt surge down Adam's phone line, destroying his computer and burning up his printouts. Adam would have been killed—except this cat startled him back from the computer a moment before it exploded.
Adam is not dissuaded. He wonders if there's an Autobot computer online somewhere...
Featured characters
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Quotes
Notes
Artwork and technical errors
Continuity errors
- The story includes two instances of 'Cybertronian dates,' but like every such instance, it provides no conversion ratio, and is inconsistent with every other instance.
Continuity notes
- Optimus Prime's bio includes the tidbit that he wanted to train as a medical officer before the war broke out and he signed up to fight.
- Adam Reynolds would return in "The Saga of the Transformers — So Far!" in the Transformers Annual 1989.
Real-life references
Other trivia
- This is subtitled The story of the Transformers ... So far
Covers (2)
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Transformers Annual 1987 -
The Transformers Classics UK Volume 2
- Transformers Annual 1987 cover: Prime and other early Transformers, by Barry Kitson.
- The Transformers Classics UK Volume 2 cover: Centurion, Professor Morris and his neural relay link, Soundwave, Shockwave, Megatron, Buster's battlesuit, the Overlord and Nightstalker, by Andrew Wildman.
