The Transformers issue 1

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The Transformers issue 1
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First published	20th September, 1984
Off‑sale date	3rd October, 1984
Cover	Jerry Paris
Price	25p

ROBOT INVADERS! They're evil machines from another world! They want our planet! How can the Autobots save us? The fight begins inside.

Contents

• Openers: Editor's Letter; letters (from the kids of Greycourt School, Ham); competition to win a free membership to a Martian Smashers Magazine fan club; announcement of next issue's "Be an Interplanetary Spy" book competition; competition to win "FLASH", a "video comic" by Mountain Films; advertorial for School Mate, a personal organiser for children by Bluebird
• The Transformers: "The Transformers"  part 1
• Competition: A spot the difference puzzle to win Jazz 
• Advert: Hasbro advert for Transformers including Sideswipe,  Bumblebee,  Thundercracker,  and Rumble 
• Poster: a street featuring S. Witwicky Auto Repairs  for use as a landscape with the included free rub-down transfers
• Poster: Prowl,  Sideswipe,  and Jazz, as seen in an early commercial 
• Advert: Marvel's Indiana Jones comic  – "Get your own copy, you swine!" – and Conan issue 85 
• Machine Man: "Introducing Machine Man"
• Machine Man: "Byte of the Binary Bug!" part 1
• Feature: Robot Round-Up, featuring real life robots like Dennis Weston's Tinker, the Unimate 2000, the Odex 1 at Ford Dagenham, and HERO, with digressions about R.U.R. by "a Czechoslovakian author" and Asimov's three laws, and the prediction that in 30 years robots will be more intelligent than people
• Advert: The Best Pals Club is for you and your dog.
• Free gift!: "Action Transfers", a sheet of rub-down transfers featuring mostly box-art depictions of Bluestreak,  Sunstreaker,  Jazz, Thundercracker,  Buzzsaw,  Huffer,  Frenzy,  Prowl,  Trailbreaker,  Ravage  and others, along with various rockets, planets, and laser beams