The Transformers (Marvel Comics)

title	The Transformers
schedule	Monthly
ongoing	y
publisher	Marvel Comics
date	September 1984 – July 1991
issues	80
main char team	Autobots, Decepticons
writers	Bob Budiansky (issues 5–15, 17–42, and 44–55) Simon Furman (issues 56–80) Len Kaminski (issue 16) Ralph Macchio (issues 1 [plotted by Bill Mantlo] and 43) Jim Salicrup (issues 2 [plotted by Bill Mantlo], 3, and 4)
artists	Alan Kupperberg (issues 5 and 6) Geoff Senior (issues 61, 62, 65, 66, and 75) Dwayne Turner (issue 68)
pencillers	Bob Budiansky (issue 55 [co-penciler]) José Delbo (issues 37–42, 45–54, 56–60, 63, 64, and 67) Jim Fern (issue 55 [co-penciler]) William Johnson (issues 7 and 8) Mike Manley (issue 9) Don Perlin (issues 13–15, 17–19, 21–32, and 35) Frank Springer (issues 1–4, and 44) Herb Trimpe (issues 11, 12, and 20) Ricardo Villamonte (issue 10) Andrew Wildman (issues 69–74 and 76–80)
inkers	Ian Akin (issues [co-inker] 4, 19–25, 27–30, 32, and 35–37) Kyle Baker (issues 7 and 8) Stephen Baskerville (issues 70–74 and 76–80) Danny Bulanadi (issues 41, 44, 46, 48, 49, 54, and 67) Vince Colletta (issue 18) Kim DeMulder (issues 1–3) Mike Esposito (issue 3) Jim Fern (issue 31) Brian Garvey (issues [co-inker] 4, 19–25, 27–30, 32, and 35–37) Al Gordon (issues 12–14) Mike Gustovich (issue 55) Don Hudson (comics) (issue 42) Dave Hunt (issues 38–40, 42, 45, 47, 50–53, 56–60, and 63) Brad Joyce (issue 10) Tom Palmer (issue 11) Dan Reed (issue 64) Keith Williams (issues 15–18) Al Williamson (issue 64)
colorists	Nel Yomtov (issues 1–80)
creators	Marvel Comics

The Transformers is an 80-issue American comic book series published by Marvel Comics telling the story of the Transformers. Originally scheduled as a four-issue miniseries, it spawned a mythology that would inform other versions of the saga.

US title

Issues

Writers

From issue #56, the by then well-known writer of Transformers Marvel UK, Simon Furman took over the reins, having been asked by Marvel US, after Budiansky had grown tired of the comic.[1]

UK title

The US run also inspired a Marvel UK sister title that spliced original stories into the continuity, running for 332 issues (September 1984 – July 1991).

The Transformers: Regeneration One

In July 2011, it was announced that IDW Publishing has signed up Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman and Stephen Baskerville (Wildman's Transformers inker) to make a continuation of the Marvel Transformers comic, consisting of 20 issues from #81 to #100 (July 2012 – March 2014), titled The Transformers: Regeneration One.[2]

References

Furman, Simon: Best of Transformers, Titan Books 2008. ISBN 1 84576 910 4^
81 is a go for 2012!, IDW Publishing Forums. Accessed 24 July 2011.^