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Issue: The Transformers #5
Publication Date: June 1985
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Issues: #5 of 80 Issues (195 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 02/26/1985
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.00 CAD
£0.50 GBP
$0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #66.

Keith Williams is credited on the letters page only. Jim Owsley is credited on both the story sequence and the letters page.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: bi-monthly miniseries (#1-#4); was ongoing (#5-#80)
Format Notes:  
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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagThe Transformers Classics #1 published ?
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Painted original artwork for cover. Lettering and masting yet to be added.
 
Cover, Front
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Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Interior Page
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Title Page
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Interior Page
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Page 5 (and 6) of story, a double-page image. Inks over pencils. Colors yet to be added.
 
Interior Page
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Page 22 of story. Inks over pencils. Colors yet to be added.
 
Interior Page
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Page 20 of story. Inks over pencils. Colors yet to be added.
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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The Transformers Are All Dead

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover with "The Transformers" title logo, with the words "Are All Dead" on a wall, inscribed by Shockwave.
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The New Order

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Mel; Gus; Charlene Welles
Synopsis: Shockwave has taken almost all of the Autobots prisoner except for Ratchet and has left them damaged in the Ark (his new power base) as Buster finds a disembodied Optimus Prime (head only).
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTransformers #3/1987 published May 1987
as Den nya ordningen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
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In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (The Hype Box)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Once upon a time... ... there was a large and ungainly Barbarian-in-Chief ...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Items, Hype Box, Check List
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from: Scott Messmer, Ricky Reyes, Mark Stadtmiller, Lonnie W. Lorenzen, Warren Sternin, Ed Arnold, Arun Shukla, Oliver Retana, Jeb Hoge, M.A. Cross, J. Baldwin, Reese Copeland, Paul Bacas, Chris Crum, Brian Stokes, Ricky O'Conner, Darren Russell, Robert Lorenz, Luis Luciano, and David Kinder.

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