Transformers #1 40th Anniversary Edition CVR B Christian Ward Var

by Ralph Macchio

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the TRANSFORMERS with a new printing of the comic book that started it all! The Autobots and Decepticons have brought their conflict to Earth—and the world will never be the same again! This issue will be printed on newsprint and will feature an all-new variant cover celebrating the history of the TRANSFORMERS!

Genres: Comics

32 pages, Comic

Published January 1, 2024

About the author

For the Karate Kid actor, click here: Ralph Macchio

Ralph Macchio is an American comic book editor and writer, who has held many positions at Marvel Comics, including executive editor. Macchio is commonly associated with Daredevil, the Spider-Man line of comics and the popular Ultimate Marvel line. In Macchio's words, he "made probably the longest run on Daredevil of anyone."

Macchio is not related to the actor Ralph Macchio, but is nicknamed "Karate Kid" after that actor's famous role.

Reviews

[Nicolo]

A reprint of the first Transformers comic book in glorious newsprint.

The 80's art style and colors look really good in newsprint. The 80's style captions, not so much. It was pasted all over the pages. However, it was a necessary compromise to facilitate the information dump to introduce more than a dozen new characters in this issue.

When the story got past the character introductions, it gave us a glimpse of the storytelling that allowed the book to break beyond its original four-issue limited series plans into 80 issues.

[Oakdoorframe]

Shout out to my comic book shop who gave this to me early.

[Egghead]

deceptions are threat
anti-intellectual dad
maybe bigger one