The Transformers
#5
[Direct]
(June 1985)
Marvel,
1984 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.50 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1985-02-26
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Editing
- Christopher Priest (credited as Jim Owsley) (editor (see Notes)); Jim Shooter (credited as James Shooter) (editor in chief); Keith Williams (credited) (assistant editor (see Notes))
Issue 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.
This issue has variants:
Keith Williams is credited on the letters page only. Jim Owsley is credited on both the story sequence and the letters page.
This issue has variants:
The Transformers Are All Dead
Transformers / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- M. D. Bright (signed) (painting)
- Inks
- M. D. Bright (signed) (painting)
- Colors
- M. D. Bright (signed) (painting)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Shockwave
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Cover with "The Transformers" title logo, with the words "Are All Dead" on a wall, inscribed by Shockwave.
![Cover Thumbnail for The Transformers (Marvel, 1984 series) #5 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/810/w200/810208.jpg?3572886676856479316)
![Cover Thumbnail for The Transformers (1984 series) #5 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/75/w100/75505.jpg?3672338038301980468)
The New Order
Transformers / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Bob Budiansky (credited)
- Pencils
- Alan Kupperberg (credited) (signed as
Alan Kupperberg) (art) - Inks
- Alan Kupperberg (credited) (signed as Alan Kupperberg) (art)
- Colors
- Nel Yomtov (credited)
- Letters
- Rick Parker (credited)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Josie Beller; G. B. Blackrock; Blue Streak (cameo); Brawn (cameo); Bumblebee (cameo); Cliffjumper (cameo); Frenzy; Gears (cameo); Hound (cameo); Huffer (cameo); Ironhide (cameo); Jazz (cameo); Megatron; Optimus Prime; Prowl (cameo); Ratchet; Ravage (cameo); Rumble; Shockwave; Sideswipe (cameo); Skywarp; Soundwave; Starscream (cameo); Thundercracker (cameo); Trailbreaker (cameo); Wheeljack (cameo); Buster Witwicky; Sparkplug Witwicky; 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).
- Reprints
-
in The Transformers Collected Comics (Marvel, 1985 series) #2 - The Battle Continues... (1985) - in The Transformers Comics Magazine (Marvel, 1987 series) #3 (May 1987)
-
in Transformers (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1987 series) #3/1987 ([7 maj] 1987) -
in Transformers (Titan, 2001 series) #[1] - Beginnings (February 2003)
-
- Keywords
- Creation Matrix
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Items; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page
[no title indexed]
Transmissions / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Christopher Priest ? (credited as Jim Owsley) (editor); Keith Williams ? (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer 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.
There is no feature logo for this sequence, just some (typeset) text.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Transformers Are All Dead
Transformers -
1.
The New Order
Transformers -
2.
["Once upon a time... ... there was a large and ungainly Barbarian-in-Chief ..."]
Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Items; Mighty Marvel Checklist -
3.
[no title indexed]
Transmissions
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Peter Croome
- john cruz
- Michael Hoskin
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
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