Transformers Vol. 1 #39

Type: comic book / magazine
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Date: Apr 1988
Cover Price: $1.00
cover by José Delbo and Dave Hunt

Contents

“The Desert Island of Space” -- 22 pages

  • written by Bob Budiansky
  • pencils by José Delbo
  • inks by Dave Hunt
  • Spike Witwicky reveals what’s happened to his father and goes to rescue his brother, Buster, whom Ratbat is holding prisoner
  • Shockwave’s island headquarters blasts off into outer space
  • Shockwave falls into Earth’s atmosphere, but the island spaceship (with Buster on it) escapes
  • Spike Witwicky struggles with his new role as Fortress Maximus’s head but seems to accept it by the end

Additional Images


Page from Transformers Vol. 1 #39 (Apr 1988).


See It in Context on the Continuity Pages:

Transformers: Headmasters #1Original Transformers Comics: 1988

by Julian Darius | in The Continuity Pages | under construction

U.K. series writer Simon Furman began 1988 with “The Legacy of Unicron!” — a story that (like Transformers: The Movie) took place entirely in the future timeline. (He would also begin 1989 and 1990 with… [more]


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