The Transformers issue 4
OPTIMUS PRIME vs. MEGATRON!
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| The Transformers issue 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | |||||||||||||||
| First published | 1st November, 1984 | |||||||||||||||
| Off‑sale date | 14th November, 1984 | |||||||||||||||
| Cover | Michael Golden 
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| Price | 25p | |||||||||||||||
Contents
- Openers: Editor's letter; Fact File on Gears;
voucher for money off a copy of Check-Math; letters; advertorial for Waddingtons' Quiz Kids; fanart of Ravage - The Transformers: "Power Play!" part 2
- Competition: Win a copy of Mandala by making as many words as you can using the letters in "TRANSFORMERS"
- Feature: Robot Round-Up, featuring the results of the BP competition mentioned in issue 2, won by three seventeen-year-old boys from Huntingdon and cube-seeking robot; a lengthy digression on robots in pop music, including "The Robots" by Kraftwerk, "Are "Friends" Electric?" credited to Gary Numan, "Automatic Lover" by Dee D Jackson, "Robot" by The Tornadoes, "Robot Man" by Connie Francis, and quotes on how being a popular musician makes you feel like a robot from Richard Carpenter, Sid Vicious, and Joe Strummer; a history of the Robby The Robot prop from Forbidden Planet through to Gremlins; news that the Rubik's Cube causes thumb injuries and that a robot named Cubot has been developed to solve the cube in about four minutes; and robots by Hemel Hempstead's Peter Holland, such as Ann Droid, Herby Herbaceous, and Robotham the Great
- Advert: Your friendly neighbourhood webslinger is out and about every week in Spider-Man – It's 36 pages of scintillating action for just 25p – DON'T MISS IT!
- Poster: Soundwave firing, as seen in an early commercial
- Poster: Sideswipe, Prowl, and Jazz running into battle, as seen in the early commercial (mirrored)
- Advert: Hasbro advert for Transformers including Sideswipe, Ratchet, Hound, Mirage, Bluestreak, and Jazz
- Machine Man: "Where Walk the Gods!" part 1
- Competition: Win an A-Team soundtrack album by matching the character to their silhouette
- Advert: One coupon (of three) towards the purchase of a "Robot-Watch", some sort of non-brand Kronoform
- Advert: Any four Annuals for £12 from Grandreams, with the choice of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Conan the Destroyer, Dune – The Movie, Fraggle Rock, Knight Rider, The Fall Guy, Mr T, Wham!, Culture Club, BMX Bikes, Roland Rat, Manimal, Spiderman [sic], Hulk, Return of the Jedi, and The S.A.S.