The Transformers
#17
[Direct]
(June 1986)
Marvel,
1984 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.40 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1986-02-25
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel 25th Anniversary
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A.
- Editing
- Mike Carlin (credited) (editor (see Notes)); Jim Shooter (editor in chief); Bobbie Chase (credited) (assistant editor (see Notes))
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #88.
Bobbie Chase is credited on the letters page only. Mike Carlin is credited on both the story sequence (as Mike Carlin) and the letters page (as Michael Carlin).
This issue has variants:
Bobbie Chase is credited on the letters page only. Mike Carlin is credited on both the story sequence (as Mike Carlin) and the letters page (as Michael Carlin).
This issue has variants:
Into the Smelting Pool!
Transformers / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Herb Trimpe (signed as
Herb Trimpe) - Inks
- Herb Trimpe (signed as Herb Trimpe)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Meanwhile, back on Cybertron...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Blaster
- Reprints
-
in Les Transformers (Editions Héritage, 1985 series) #17 (Avril 1987) -
in The Transformers Comics Magazine (Marvel, 1987 series) #9 (May 1988) -
in Transformers (Titan, 2001 series) #[3] - Cybertron Redux (August 2003)
-
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Return to Cybertron Part 1: The Smelting Pool!
Transformers / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Bob Budiansky (credited)
- Pencils
- Don Perlin (credited)
- Inks
- Keith Williams (credited)
- Colors
- Nel Yomtov (credited)
- Letters
- Janice Chiang (credited)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Insecticons: Bombshell; Kickback; Shrapnel
Beachcomber; Blaster; Cosmos; Dirge; Laserbeak (cameo); Megatron (cameo); Optimus Prime (cameo); Optimus Prime (cameo); Perceptor; Powerglide; Ramjet; Ravage (cameo); Seaspray; Soundwave (cameo) (also voice over for four panels); Starscream (cameo); Straxus; Thrust; Warpath; Ferak; Telus; Rotorbolt; Scrounge; Wheezel - Reprints
- in Les Transformers (Editions Héritage, 1985 series) #17 (Avril 1987)
-
in Transformers (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1987 series) #1/1988 ([21 januari] 1988) - in Transformers (Titan, 2001 series) #[3] - Cybertron Redux (August 2003)
-
Indexer Notes
In one panel, a "Hall of Fame" depicts six Autobots - Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Wheeljack, and three others.
[no title indexed]
Transmissions / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Mike Carlin ? (credited as Michael Carlin); Bobbie Chase ? (credited) (assistant editor)
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- Ian Akin (inker, embellisher); Brian Garvey (embellisher)
- Colors
- Nel Yomtov
- Letters
- typeset
- Feature Logo
Transmissions- Characters
- Ravage
- Reprints
- from The Transformers Universe (Marvel, 1986 series) #3 (February 1987) [Reprints first panel only - slightly rotated and recolored.]
-
Indexer Notes
Letters from readers: Steve Marino, David B. Mitchell, Jeff Lyczak, Tony Simms, Thomas Lucker, Ken Hayes, and Lewis Long.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Into the Smelting Pool!
Transformers -
1.
Return to Cybertron Part 1: The Smelting Pool!
Transformers -
2.
["The saga of the Hobgoblin explodes in '86!"]
Spider-Man -
3.
Style
Dakota North Investigations -
4.
The Bullpen Christmas Party...
Bullpen Bulletins -
5.
[no title indexed]
Transmissions -
6.
Power Pack and the Amazing Spider-Man with Tips on Ways to Prevent Sexual Abuse
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Peter Croome
- Michael Hoskin
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
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