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Issue: The Transformers #5

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Publication Date: June 1985

Issue #5
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Detail

Issues: #5 of 80 Issues (164 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Direct

Rating: [no rating]

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: 02/1985

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $1.00 CAD
£0.50 GBP
$0.75 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Jim Owsley (editor); Keith Williams (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor in chief)

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Format

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:

Variants2

8 The Transformers #5 [Direct]

2 The Transformers #5 [Newsstand]

Reprinted In1

1 Content Item
- The New Order [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

Images8

Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

Indicia on this Page

Painted original artwork for cover. Lettering and masting yet to be added.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

Indicia on this Page

Interior Page

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Interior Page

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

Indicia on this Page

Page 5 (and 6) of story, a double-page image. Inks over pencils. Colors yet to be added.

Interior Page

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Page 22 of story. Inks over pencils. Colors yet to be added.

Interior Page

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Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

Indicia on this Page

Page 20 of story. Inks over pencils. Colors yet to be added.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (3 total)

The Transformers Are All Dead

Illustration on Cover, Front

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction, superhero

Character(s): Shockwave

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Cover with "The Transformers" title logo, with the words "Are All Dead" on a wall, inscribed by Shockwave.

The New Order

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction, superhero

Character(s): Shockwave; Ratchet; Optimus Prime; Megatron; Soundwave; Charlene Welles; G.B. Blackrock; Josie Beller; Buster Witwicky; Mel; Gus; Sparkplug Witwicky

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: Flag

Transformers #3/1987 published May 1987
as Den nya ordningen [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 22

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Letters from readers: 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, David Kinder