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Issue: The Transformers #42
Publication Date: July 1988
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Issues: #42 of 80 Issues (195 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: 03/24/1988
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.25 CAD
£0.50 GBP
$1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Daryl Edelman is credited on the letters page only. Don Daley is credited on both the story sequence and the letters page.
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #137.
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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)
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Optimus Prime -- Powermaster!!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTransformers #1/1989 published January 1989
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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People Power!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Kari; Sorgen; Soriza
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In Content Item: FlagTransformers #1/1989 published January 1989
as Powermasters! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
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The Evolutionary War

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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: From mud to man to madness ... This time it's gone too far.
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First Line: Quote of the month: I must either support a doomed revolt ...
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Disclose Notes: Items, Special Announcement (about The Return of the Incredible Hulk), Pro File: Pat Redding.
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Steve De Anda, Tim Shinsky, Shannon Smith, Lissa Shock, Paul Nuernberg, and Mike Smith.

Includes a Spot the Shingo contest reminder.

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