Category:Transformers (Marvel U.K.)

The Marvel UK Transformers comic consisted of half reprints of the American issues, and half original stories. It was published weekly, rather than monthly, and focused on multi-part stories. The original issues, mostly written by Simon Furman, brought the theatrical film into continuity as well as elaborating on the situation on Cybertron. The UK series ended only a short time after its US counterpart. While all of US was canon in UK, only a scattered amount of UK was canon in US. Transformers: Generation 2 is canon in the UK, although the ties to G.I. Joe were downplayed significantly. The UK storylines are currently being reprinted as a series of trade paperbacks by Titan Books.

Canon Material

• Transformers (1984-1992)
• Transformers Annuals (1985-1992)
• Action Force #24-27 (1987)
• Transformers: Generation 2 (1994)

Connections

Unlike Marvel US, G.I. Joe was not in-continuity (G.I. Joe and the Transformers was published very late into the UK series' run), but their Marvel UK equivalent, Action Force, was. Death's Head, a character who first appeared here, would later cross universes to meet the Seventh Doctor (from the Doctor Who comics) and the Fantastic Four (from the Marvel universe).

Resources

• TFComic.com
• Transformers On-Line Encyclopedia