Transformers: City of Fear

Marvel UK Transformers from Titan Books #7

by Simon Furman, Robin Smith (Illustrator), Dan Reed (Illustrator)

Unicron is no more. Galvatron has been destroyed. But for the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons... the war goes on Continuing the bestselling series of collections featuring the rare UK stories, originally published as single issues by Marvel UK in the 80s, City of Fear throws the spotlight on the Transformers' homeworld of Cybertron. Ultra Magnus is finally back home, and the welcome is warmer than he possibly imaged An old enemy, a rogue Autobot from the planet's dark past, has resurfaced, with a terrifying agenda. Cybertron and its cities will burn... and the dead will inherit all Classic Transformers strip action, plus previously unseen bonus material.

Collects The Transformers issues

City of Fear! #164-165
Legion of the Lost! #166-167
Meltdown! #168-169
Deadly Games! #170-171
Firebug! #188
The Fall and Rise of the Decepticon Empire #213-214
Kup's Story! #132

Genres: Comics

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Simon Christopher Francis Furman is a British comic book writer who is best known for his work on Hasbro/Tomy's Transformers franchise, starting with writing Marvel's initial comic book to promote the toyline worldwide, as well as foundations for both Dreamwave Production's and IDW Publishing's takes on the Generation 1 minifranchise.

Reviews

[Jdetrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Much of this is material I already have in a nicer package from the UK Classics collection, but there are three stories at the end worth having, particularly the ones that return Megatron to power on Cybertron. He often didn't get his due in the comics, and this is a very good use of him.