Beast Wars

With “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” hitting theaters today, it’s easy to forget that, along with blockbuster movies of the live-action and animated variety, long-running cartoon series and hundreds of toys, Hasbro’s shape-changing robots have a long history in the comics world, too.
Earlier this week, we gave you our list of the five most important “Transformers” comics you should check out, and now we thought it might be worth taking a trip down memory lane with Optimus Prime, Megatron and the rest of the “Robots in Disguise” and examine the twists and turns of their long journey on the printed page.
Marvel Comics (1984-1991): While the original cartoon series was on the air, the original Generation 1 comic book series kicked off with Marvel Comics. Like the cartoon, the cast of characters in the comics depended upon toy marketing considerations.
These comics were very much the same
Alan Kistler

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