Because TFUK had admitted a few years earlier that its stories were a mixture of American reprints and British originals, older readers would have realised that since the UK strips had stopped, the comic was now entirely reliant on imported material. In issue #319 (July 1991), a reader reported that the US comic had been cancelled and deduced that TFUK would soon follow suit. “Since Marvel US revealed that they would be canning Transformers in the States,” replied ‘Blaster’ [presumably editor Harry Papadopoulos — a longstanding TFUK convention being that editors or editorial assistants answered letters in the guise of Transformers], “we’ve received a great many letters from worried readers deeply concerned that [TFUK] faces imminent disaster… We have enough Yankee material to last at least until the end of the 1991. After that? You know what they say: ‘Never stop fighting until the fight is done.” To put it bluntly, the Marvel UK Transformers comic is 100% better than the American version we get over here. Your comics have beautiful covers, high quality artwork and very intelligent plots. Here in the States, Transformers comics are monthly instead of weekly and have bad artwork and stupid plots. Thank you for showing us the Autobots and Decepticons of the 21st Century. You guys in Britain are, as always, one step ahead when it comes to time travel (from Wells' Time Machine to Doctor Who — you always come through)! After some troubled times and steadily declining readership, the series was finally canceled at issue #80. A combination of factors was likely responsible: the Transformers toyline had become yesterday's fad, the core readership had grown older and moved on, and Hasbro seems to have pulled the plug. As a kid in the late 70s and early 80s, you were either Team Tiswas or Team Swap Shop. The former, on ITV, was raucous and irreverent, while the latter, being on the BBC, was friendly but slightly ‘safer’ and less anarchic. There was a parallel in the world of British ‘boys adventure’ comics: in the mid-to-late 80s, you either read IPC’s 2000AD or Marvel UK’s Transformers.

Thunderwing, along with Scourge, Bludgeon, Dirge, and Galvatron, was sent to prepare another universe for Unicron's arrival. Porting into Decepticon Command Headquarters on Cybertron, Galvatron left Thunderwing and the others on Cybertron to accomplish their task. Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4 Though they destroyed all of the Decepticons in their headquarters and established a network of space bridge portals, this universe's Megatron was not amongst their victims. Worlds Collide, Part 2 of 4 As a result of this, although issue #1 is cover dated September, it went on sale in May. This is supported by the first Usenet post about Transformers which was posted by Ted Nolan to net.comics on May 22, 1984. [4]According to the third issue of All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z 's entries on Death's Head, the events of the Marvel UK Generation 1 comics take place on Marvel Earth-120185. The universe is named after the publication date of the first Marvel UK-exclusive story, " Man of Iron". Thunderwing's inner robot transforms into a rather simple Cybertronic shuttlecraft. His Pretender shell also transforms into a starship mode of its own. The inner vehicle can be attached underneath the nose of the larger vehicle to create a combined starship mode. The inner robot is relatively generic in appearance (as with most Pretenders) while his outer Pretender shell resembles an alien warrior with Japanese oni influences. The inner robot carries a small "cyclone cannon" laser, while the shell is armed with two large laser blasters. All three of his guns can be mounted on his shell's vehicle mode. The large laser blasters can be mounted on the jet two different ways, either perpendicular or parallel to the wing undersides. The final issue of Fleetway’s Transformers: Generation 2 appeared in January 1995, containing a story that continued the Marvel US (and UK) continuity begun in 1984 Kreon Thunderwing's appearance in the comic is extremely small, making it difficult to tell what Kre-O parts he's made out of. He does seem to have the clip-on wings on his arms, but what his helmet is we couldn't tell you.

Thunderwing was among the Decepticons that invaded Metroplex. Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight! Of Masters and Mayhem This idea was later abandoned when it became apparent that to include the Transformers in the Marvel Universe would cause issues with both the Transformers title, and the other Marvel books (not to mention the rights issues that would later come up, like with ROM the Spaceknight). Various parodies and homages to its distinctly surreal cover art including an incentive cover of " The Death of Optimus Prime", Cover B of the final issue of Regeneration One, a convention exclusive cover for Till All Are One #1, the "cover" for " The Inexorable March", and a retailer incentive cover to Unicron #1.Main article: List of Transformers UK Comics The Transformers: The Movie, Marvel, U.S., 1986 [ edit ]

While the decision-makers at Marvel UK could not have known in late 1991 that Generation 2 was on the horizon, TFUK was nonetheless selling enough at the time of its demise to warrant continued investment in the license in the form of the aforementioned holiday specials. According to the Marvel Universe Appendix, the events of the Marvel US comics take place on Marvel Earth-91274. However, the title would last only for three issues due to low sales. The first strip to be published in the magazine was 'Burnout' written by Simon Furman. Another strip in the first issue was an adaptation of the episode ' Blast from the Past', using stills from the show as comic panels.

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The Marvel UK series ran for about a year longer than its American counterpart and altogether had about twice as many stories.