The Transformers (Marvel Comics) Explained

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.

US title

Writers

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]

The Transformers: Regeneration One

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]

Notes and References

  1. Furman, Simon: Best of Transformers, Titan Books 2008.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20111004215453/http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=10249 81 is a go for 2012!