The Transformers issue 6
From The Transformers UK Appendix
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The Transformers issue 6 | ||||||||||||||||
Publisher | Marvel Comics | |||||||||||||||
First published | 1st December, 1984 | |||||||||||||||
Off‑sale date | 14th December, 1984 | |||||||||||||||
Cover | Mark Texeira ![]() | |||||||||||||||
Price | 25p |
Guest Starring SPIDER-MAN — All your favourites and MORE inside!
Contents
- Openers: Editor's Letter; Fact File on Optimus Prime; advertorial on Hasbro's Knight Rider Knight 2000 Stunt Set and Knight 2000 "Super" Stunt Set; letters, penpals, and stock exchange; editorial-style cartoon by "ZAKZ" of a robot telling a man to wash behind his ears(?)
- The Transformers: "Prisoner of War!"
part 2
- Feature: Robot Round-Up, featuring Steve Brooks' robot dog; prospective guide dog for the blind Meldog; a Phonogram Records provided photo of by Dee D Jackson with her "Automatic Lover" following up her mention in issue 4; the robot known only as "Rock" that accompanied Y&T on the "In Rock We Trust" tour; Japanese robot-making robot company Fanuc; Shunichi Mizuno's Marilyn Monroe; the University of Utah's research into cybernetic vision devices (couched in a Six Million Dollar Man reference); and Fischertechnik's six new robot construction kits that interface with your computer which you must buy from a Micro Robotic Systems Ltd in London
- Poster: Decepticon wall poster
- Puzzle: "Robot Right Words", a fill-in style crossword with robot-themed words and layout
- Advert: On October 13th 1976, a legend was born. It's 1984, and the legend is about to come full circle. Again... in his own magazine! CAPTAIN BRITAIN,
with Night Raven, Abslom Daak,
and THE FREE-FALL WARRIORS. Every Month, 50p.
- Machine Man: "Xanadu!" part 1
- Competition: Win a Bontempi HT 313 keyboard by spotting ten differences in a panel from "Prisoner of War!"
- Matt and the Cat: (issue 6)
- 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.