
But in a good way.
It's all in my look at Space Pirates Part 1!
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![]() It's the last issue of the comic I didn't read at the time! To celebrate some Transformers almost turn up, the Quintessons explain a lot of things to each other they already knew and Wreck-Gar is Top of the Pops. But in a good way. It's all in my look at Space Pirates Part 1!
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Well we all have our first issues and they are all common or garden issues that hold no special significance to anybody else, but our selves.
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Stuart
6/11/2015 05:04:42 pm
It's pleasing to be an inspiration! I'm on the way out the door now, but I will add it to the links page later. If I forget prod me to remind me!
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Ta.
Paul
6/11/2015 05:35:45 pm
My first TF UK issue 2. Not sure why I missed #1 but I thought it was amazing.
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Junkion cultural references are especially tricky when you’re a kid because they’re 20 years out of date even for the 1980s, having been written by writers in their 30s.
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Tetsuro
6/11/2015 06:06:06 pm
I shall now be That Guy and point out at least two errors in the article:
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Dave
6/11/2015 06:15:04 pm
Actually, this issue is special for me for the very same reason! I also hooked up with the series permanently with the next issue (it probably is less special to me than you as you have stuck with Transformers as a fandom)
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Ralph Burns
7/11/2015 09:03:55 pm
Ahem. I think you'll find that Grimlock IS real and did in fact answer reader's letters for 100 glorious issues.
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Stuart
8/11/2015 04:43:10 am
OK, Grimlock is as real ad Dreadwind.
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8/11/2015 01:45:26 pm
I have what most almost certainly be a false memory of briefly looking inside this issue at the time whilst in a petrol station shop on the Shrewsbury to Welshpool road during a visit to my grandparents. But the dates just don't match up so it must have been a slightly earlier issue that failed to hook me in - maybe #179. So my first regular issue wouldn't have been for another year.
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Simon Hall
8/11/2015 05:48:50 pm
I actually really like Space Pirates. So there. I'm sure I'm the contrary one who likes all the stuff everyone else says is rubbish..! This was one I managed to collect parts of at the time (missed this first part and the conclusion). I really like the two pronged plan the Quints have and Soundwave being the boss :) There's some daft stuff (After an issue full of Wreck Gar talking TV, the constant rhyme of Wheelie is a bit much), but things like Rodimus reverting to Hot Rod and Metroplex punching his way out of Autobot CityI genuinely thought were ace (being ignorant of Season 3 doing this every other week at the time). Its fun stuff!
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Cradok
9/11/2015 10:23:53 am
This might have been the last issue you didn't get, but it was the first issue *I* did. As I mentioned somewhere before, I'd been getting Thundercats since issue 2 back in March 1987, but for some reason didn't start getting Transformers until this. And, as first issues go, in some ways really grabbed me, but turned out to not be terribly indicative of the comic in general. The main story was... alright. The Quintessons I knew from the Movie, and actually enjoyed this version of them - something with definitely tainted my view of them in the cartoon when I found out a dozen years later - but Wrek-Gar wasn't great, and the lack of actual Transformers I cared about hurt. Art was good, though.
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bouncelot
10/11/2015 12:31:16 am
My first issue was #36, but I particularly remember this one. Between about #160 and #200, there were a lot of issues I missed. In particular, I only picked up two of the issues between #173 and #200 - this was one of them (the other was #193). I think during that period, I ended up getting some issues of Thundercats, Action Force, and He-Man (the latter was, looking back on it, really badly written).
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10/11/2015 10:11:36 am
The Visionaries origin was reprinted in their annual (which, unlike the TF book that year, isn't so evasive about what year should be applied to it). If it also had a reprint special then that's four UK printings in the space of about a year! I did turn up a post that claimed there was a spring special in 1989 which reprinted the contents of issue #5 with the same cover. Was Marvel trying to get blood from a stone, was the cartoon repeated very quickly or had the licence contract seriously underestimated the amount of material available?
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Ralph Burns
10/11/2015 12:33:25 pm
Yep I had that Special. It was indeed identical to #5 right down to the cover!!! Fun it read these first issue memories. I think mine was maybe Collected Comics #1. Looking at the TF Wiki I can recall "deception dam busters" and start to form a clear memory of the issues from around the time of my 6th birthday onwards (the end of dinobot hunt, the smelting pool - which I was deeply moved by - omega supreme, and so on). The omega supreme issue was the oldest one I possessed into my 20s - I ave a vague recollection of earlier ones being chopped up by my sisters to create "auto bot letters" they claimed had been delivered by "a Porsche" (no don't a reference to the Jazz toy I carried everywhere..)
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bouncelot
11/11/2015 06:53:35 pm
Funny how much detail we remember about this. #36 was my first issue, followed by #40. I missed #47, but then had the comic delivered from #48 until when we moved house in late 1986 (which was, I think, when I lost everything before #50), but lost #54 on a trip somewhere. Odd how I remember what happened to some of my comics.
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Will Rigby
15/7/2018 09:45:47 am
It turns out that the German Transformers Comic-Magazin, retold the first three parts of this story, as a text story in its final issue.
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Stuart
15/7/2018 12:08:51 pm
That's a cool bit of info, thanks.
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