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''The Transformers'' is an 80-issue
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series published by
Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is a New York City–based comic book publishing, publisher, a property of the Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023. Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin G ...
telling the story of the
Transformers ''Transformers'' is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Tomy, Takara Tomy. It primarily follows the heroic Autobots and the villainous Decepticons, two Extraterrestrials in fiction, alien robot fac ...
. Originally scheduled as a four-issue
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, it spawned a mythology that would inform other versions of the
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. It also had a UK sister title that spliced original stories into the continuity, running for 332 issues.


US title


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Writers

From issue #56, the by then well-known writer of ''Transformers'' Marvel UK,
Simon Furman Simon Christopher Francis Furman (born 22 March 1961) is a British comic book writer who is best known for his work on Hasbro's ''Transformers'' franchise, starting with writing Marvel Comics's initial comic book to promote the toyline worl ...
took over the reins, having been asked by Marvel US, after Budiansky had grown tired of the comic.


''The Transformers: Regeneration One''

In July 2011, it was announced that
IDW Publishing IDW Publishing is an American publisher of comic books, graphic novels, art books, and comic strip collections. It was founded in 1999 as the publishing division of Idea and Design Works, LLC (IDW) and is recognized as the fifth-largest comic ...
has signed up Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman and Stephen Baskerville (Wildman's ''Transformers'' inker) to make a continuation of the Marvel ''Transformers'' comic, consisting of 20 issues from #81 to #100, titled ''The Transformers: Regeneration One''.81 is a go for 2012!
IDW Publishing Forums. Accessed 24 July 2011.


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Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is a New York City–based comic book publishing, publisher, a property of the Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023. Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin G ...