Transformation 292: The Only Way to be Sure.

15/12/2017

This week, Jazz is the light in Thunderwing's life, Windsweeper is swept off his feet and a totally mysterious one eyed one handed purple Decepticon appears.

It's all in my look at ISSUE 292!

And the CHRISTMAS QUIZ still has a week to go!

5 Comments

John D. link

15/12/2017 09:15:15 pm

From here on in it was pretty hard to find these issues. I missed this one and maybe the next, so I think I only (spoiler alert!) saw what happened in a flashback in a later issue. The idea of gravity exhausting the autobots was a good one. Ps I don't get the front cover pun?

Stuart

15/12/2017 09:45:54 pm

Windsweeper is literally hanging about.

Sounds like I was lucky to be able to keep getting the book right through to the end!

Tim Roll-Pickering link

16/12/2017 10:51:55 pm

I had a standing order at my local Menzies so generally didn't have a problem but there were a couple of issues (299 & 312 from memory) that just didn't show up there and I only found subsequently in Asda - over two weeks later in the case of 299. It seems a lot of us suffered distribution problems in some form.

Tigerbread

18/12/2017 09:00:44 am

I remember putting in a standing order to reserve it at my newsagents as well back in '88. The next week I went in and asked for my reserve copy....and was led straight to the magazine rack where it usually sat.
Just 10 years later that place became a Super Inks, coincidence? I don't think so...

Simon Tilley

13/10/2019 09:38:39 pm

I seemed to recall drifting off the comic circa issue 235, picking up back issues around the 275-290 era from the newsagents closest to my Nans during the summer holiday era and then not finding anywhere that sold it.

By chance I happened across issue 309 in a newsagent in a neighbouring estate as my self employed Dad had to pick some cash up nearby and was hooked again. I discovered that our large Tesco got the issues on a Tuesday as I recall (only a few though) so every fortnight after school it became a routine to go there and I got a regular fix through 1991 right up until 319 where Tesco stopped ordering it.

Panic set in as 318 had the Unicron cliffhanger, I managed to find issue 320 at Sainsburys in town but this became a mission to get into town and back as an 11year old and managed to get a copy but I did up until 329 which I missed buying, not sure what had happened but I was taught the error of my ways as Sainsburys stopped stocking the comic after this and I missed this and 330. Can't recall exactly where but picked up the last 2 issues (with no idea these would be the last ones) from elsewhere but as an adult now I realise that sales must have been poor by current standards as Turtle Mania was everywhere and at the start of 1992 many of the kids who were fans 8 years ago were now teenagers with no interest in comics. Picking up issues with any success was not an easy task in the final year of the book.

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