The Transformers issue 1
From The Transformers UK Appendix
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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 
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| 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
