| The Transformers | |
| Schedule: | Monthly |
| Format: | Series |
| Publisher: | Marvel Comics |
| Date: | September 1984 – July 1991 |
| Issues: | 80 |
| Main Char Team: | Autobots, Decepticons |
| Writers: | Bob Budiansky (issues 5-15, 17-42, and 44-55) Simon Furman (issues 56-80) Len Kaminski (issue 16) Ralph Macchio_(editor) (issues 1 [plotted by [[Bill Mantlo]]] and 43) Jim Salicrup (issues 2 [plotted by [[Bill Mantlo]]], 3, and 4) |
| Artists: | Alan Kupperburg (issues 5 and 6) Geoff Senior (issues 61, 62, 65, 66, and 75) Dwayne Turner (issue 68) |
| Pencillers: | Bob Budiansky (issue 55 [co-penciler]) José Delbo (issues 37-42, 45-54, 56-60, 63, 64, and 67) Jim Fern (issue 55 [co-penciler]) William Johnson (issues 7 and 8) Mike Manley (issue 9) Don Perlin (issues 13-15, 17-19, 21-32, and 35) Frank Springer (issues 1-4, and 44) Herb Trimpe (issues 11, 12, and 20) Ricardo Villamonte (issue 10) Andrew Wildman (issues 69-74 and 76-80) |
| Inkers: | Ian Akin (issues [co-inker] 4, 19-25, 27-30, 32, and 35-37) Kyle Baker (issues 7 and 8) Stephen Baskerville (issues 70-74 and 76-80) Danny Bulanadi (issues 41, 44, 46, 48, 49, 54, and 67) Vince Colletta (issue 18) Kim DeMulder (issues 1-3) Mike Esposito (issue 3) Jim Fern (issue 31) Brian Garvey (issues [co-inker] 4, 19-25, 27-30, 32, and 35-37 Al Gordon (issues 12-14) Mike Gustovich (issue 55) Don Hudson (comics) (issue 42) Dave Hunt (issues 38-40, 42, 45, 47, 50-53, 56-60, and 63) Brad Joyce (issue 10) Tom Palmer (issue 11) Dan Reed (issue 64) Keith Williams (issues 15-18) Al Williamson (issue 64) |
| Colorists: | Nel Yomtov (issues 1-80) |
| Creators: | Marvel Comics |
The Transformers is an 80-issue American comic book series published by Marvel Comics telling the story of the Transformers. Originally scheduled as a four-issue miniseries, it spawned a mythology that would inform other versions of the saga. It also had a UK sister title that spliced original stories into the continuity, running for 332 issues.
From issue #56, the by then well-known writer of Transformers Marvel UK, Simon Furman took over the reins, having been asked by Marvel US, after Budiansky had grown tired of the comic.[1]
In July 2011, it was announced that IDW Publishing has signed up Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman and Stephen Baskerville (Wildman's Transformers inker) to make a continuation of the Marvel Transformers comic, consisting of 20 issues from #81 to #100, titled The Transformers: Regeneration One.[2]