Marvel Comics
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- Marvel Comics is a comic book company from the Generation 1 and real world continuity families.
Face front, True Believers! The merry mirthmakers at Marvel Comics brought you seven scintillating years (1984–1991) of fabulous funnybooks starring the ever-lovin' Transformers! A mere two years later, those argumentative appliances struck back (and struck out, natch!) in Transformers: Generation 2. Eons later, in the far-flung future of 2007, Marvel published New Avengers/Transformers, teaming Cybertron's Mightiest Robots with Earth's Mightiest Heroes!
Most of these Marvel mags were penned by one of two brilliant Bullpenners:
- "Blazing" Bob Budiansky, who ably 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 terrific bios that came with the Hasbro toys.
- "Senses-Shattering" 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 the last 25 issues of the original series, then battled back to pen all 12 issues of Generation 2. For if he could not write them, what chance, then, did anyone else have?
Marvel published the following Transformers series, so hit those back-issue-bins and Make Yours Marvel! EXCELSIOR!
- The Transformers (US)
- The Transformers (UK)
- The Transformers: Generation 2
- The Transformers: Headmasters
- G.I. Joe and the Transformers
- Transformers: The Movie
- The Transformers Universe
- New Avengers/Transformers
Excelsior!
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. I, Robot-Master!
Robo-Capers
Deciding that Soundwave had been answering the letters page for too long, Grimlock arrived at the Marvel Comics offices to oust him. Little did he know, Soundwave had already managed to sneak a lift to America, leaving Grimlock to be swamped by unopened mail. Robo-Capers issue 74
Similarly, Dreadwind arrived at the Marvel Comics offices to challenge Grimlock to a fight over the letters page but the Dinobot was in a hurry and managed to bury the Decepticon in suitcases... full of unopened mail. The Wind of Change!
Toys
Marvel characters are incorporated as part of the Crossovers franchise. Marvel Transformers? That certainly sounds familiar.
Books
Marvel Books published children's coloring and activity books in the 1980s, based on licensed properties retained by Marvel Comics, including Transformers.
Other titles
It may surprise you to know this, but Marvel published comics that had nothing to do with Transformers! A number of these titles would be reprinted as back-up strips in Marvel UK's title: Visionaries, Iron Man, Machine Man, Planet Terry, Hercules, Spider-Man, The Inhumanoids, and, the longest of all, Action Force G.I. Joe the Action Force G.I. Joe. Marvel UK also published Action Force, which crossed over with Transformers.
