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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published June 1985
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.50 GBP
Pages 36
Editing Keith Williams (Assistant Editor); Jim Owsley (Editor); Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief)
Notes published: February 1985

Cover Details - "The Transformers Are All Dead"

Characters Shockwave
Genre science fiction; superhero
Pencils Mark Bright (painter, signed)
Inks Mark Bright (painter, signed)
Colors Mark Bright (painter, signed)
Notes Cover with "The Transformers" title logo, with the words "Are All Dead" on a wall, inscribed by Shockwave.

22 page Transformers story "The New Order"

Characters Shockwave; Ratchet; Optimus Prime; Megatron; Soundwave; Charlene Welles; G.B. Blackrock; Josie Beller; Buster Witwicky; Mel; Gus; Sparkplug Witwicky
Synopsis Shockwave has taken almost all of the Autobots prisoner except for Ratchet) and has left them damaged in the Ark (his new power base) as Buster finds a disembodied Optimus Prime (head only).
Genre science fiction; superhero
Script Bob Budiansky
Pencils Alan Kupperberg
Inks Alan Kupperberg
Colors Nel Yomtov
Letters Rick Parker