Transformers: Earthforce

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Transformers: Earthforce
Publisher	Titan Books
First published	23 December 2005
Writer	Simon Furman
Art	Jeff Anderson, Staz, Andy Wildman
Pencils	Pete Knifton, John Marshall, Staz
Inks	Stephen Baskerville, Michael Eve, Pete Venters
Letterers	Stuart Bartlett, GLIB, Peri Godbold, Sophie Heath, Helen Stone
Editor	Chris Francis, Euan Peters
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity
TPB ISBN	ISBN 1-84576-061-1
Price	£5.99
Printed in	Italy

The fourth Titan Books trade paperback to reprint black and white Marvel UK stories, Transformers: Earthforce features stories detailing the arrival of Doubledealer, creation of Arcee and the formation of the Autobot Earthforce.

Contents

• "(Double) Deal of the Century!"
• "Prime's Rib!"
• "Starting Over!"
• "Two Steps Back!"
• "Break-Away!"
• "Desert Island Risks!"
• "Once upon a Time..."
• "Life in the Slow Lane"
• "Snow Fun!"
• "Mystery!"
• "The Living Nightlights!"
• "The House that Wheeljack Built!"
• "Divide and Conquer!"
• "The 4,000,000 Year Itch!"
• "Makin' Tracks!"

Cover

• Grimlock punches a table. Detail from the cover of issue #263, by Stephen Baskerville.

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Notes

• This volume covers some of the UK tales from issue #234 to #281.
• The stories in the black and white Titan TPB digests are placed into themes rather than being a chronological collection of the UK tales as they were published. The page count inevitably means some of the TPB collections are more coherent than others.
• The first of these stories sits well within the wider Marvel continuity, the second is from the Marvel UK future timeline and the rest in the Earthforce continuity.
• There are no changes from the original prints so the teaser at the end of one story/arc usually doesn't relate to the next story in the book. For instance, "Makin' Tracks" (issue #281) ends with 'Next: Golden Silence', only to be followed by "Prime's Rib" (issue #234).
• The small size of the books (7½ by 5 inches - less than half the original A4 format) means that some of the fine detail is lost.