The Transformers #25 [Newsstand]

(February 1987)

Gone But Not Forgotten! (Table of Contents: 1)

Transformers / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Bob Budiansky (credited)

Pencils

Don Perlin (credited)

Inks

Ian Akin (credited); Brian Garvey (credited)

Colors

Nel Yomtov (credited)

Letters

Janice Chiang (credited)

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Combaticons: Blast Off; Brawl; Onslaught; Swindle; Vortex
Predacons: Divebomb; Headstrong; Predaking; Rampage; Razorclaw; Tantrum
Stunticons: Dead End; Drag Strip; Motormaster
Walter Barnett; Laserbeak; Megatron; Optimus Prime (flashback); Shockwave; Soundwave; Ethan Zachary (flashback); Skolnik; general Hadley; Francine; Earl

Synopsis

Megatron beomes insane after Prime's destruction by Ethan last issue instead of by his hands. Shockwave takes advantage by enlisting the Predacons from Cybertron to eliminate Megatron using false Autobot symbols on them. Megatron is almost defeated, but beats them back and when he realizes that Shockwave was behind it, almost destroys him. However, due to a brief memory glance in which he remembers that Ethan somehow 'saved' Prime from the game via a memory download to a disk, he then blasts the space bridge he is on, vowing never to be destroyed by Prime should he ever return.

Reprints

• in The Transformers (Marvel UK, 1984 series) #107 [Only pages 1-11 are reprinted in this issue.], #108 [Only pages 12-23 are reprinted in this issue]
• in Transformers (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1987 series) #6/1988 (June 9, 1988) [Pages 10 and 11 were cut from the Swedish translation.]
• in Transformers (Titan, 2001 series) #[5] - Breakdown (March 2004)

Indexer Notes

Last appearance for Megatron for a while; Prime returns in #40 via 'Battleworld'.

Free the Cap'n Mystery (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Cap'n Crunch; Spider-Man / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Transmissions / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Don Daley ? (credited); Daryl Edelman ? (credited)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Neil Esiason, Miguel Marolt, Reuben J. Andrews, Barry Craig, Chris Key, Mike Mulak, and Supin Ko.