Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection
Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection is a fortnightly partwork collection of hardback books published by Hachette Partworks. The series is made up of 80 volumes which will reprint the entire history of G1 comics, from the 80s Marvel series right through to the current license holder IDW.
The series is the fourth recent comics series by Hachette Partworks. It follows the success of The Official Marvel Graphic Novel Collection, Marvel's Mightiest Heroes Graphic Novel Collection and Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection, and was joined on the racks in August 2017 by a fifth: 2000 AD: The Ultimate Collection. It is currently only available in the UK, Ireland and Australia.
List of books[edit]
The following books are those confirmed by Hachette. "Issue" refers to the order of publication, and "Volume" refers to the order in which the books are intended to be kept once the 80-volume collection is complete.
| Issue | Volume | Title | Collecting | UK Release Date[notes 1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 06 | Target: 2006 | The Transformers (Marvel)
Target: 2006 (UK #78-88) Aerialbots Over America, Heavy Traffic, Decepticon Graffiti (US #21-23 / UK #89-92, #94-95) |
December 27, 2016 |
| 02 | 36 | Stormbringer | The Transformers: Spotlight (IDW)
Shockwave (#1) Soundwave[notes 2] (#6) The Transformers: Stormbringer (IDW) Stormbringer (#1-4) The Transformers: Spotlight (IDW) Nightbeat, Hot Rod (#2-3) |
January 11, 2017 |
| 03 | 16 | The Primal Scream | The Transformers (Marvel)
Cold Comfort and Joy (UK #198) The Fall and Rise of the Decepticon Empire, Race With The Devil, Survivors! (UK #213-222) Back From The Dead, The Resurrection Gambit!, All the Familiar Faces!, Skin Deep, Yesterday's Heroes!, The Primal Scream (US #56-61 / UK #240-254, #259-261) |
January 25, 2017 |
| 04 | 18 | Edge Of Extinction | The Transformers (Marvel)
Rhythms of Darkness!, The Human Factor!, Eye of the Storm, The Pri¢e of Life!, Surrender!, ...All This and Civil War 2, Out of Time!, The Void!, On the Edge of Extinction! (US #67-75 / UK #298-322) |
February 8, 2017 |
| 05 | 29 | The War Within | The Transformers: The War Within (Dreamwave)
The War Within (#1-6) |
February 22, 2017 |
| 06 | 37 | Escalation | The Transformers: Spotlight (IDW)
Sixshot, Ultra Magnus (#4-5) The Transformers: Escalation (IDW) Escalation (#1-6) |
March 8, 2017 |
| 07 | 08 | Wanted: Galvatron Dead Or Alive | The Transformers (Marvel)
Wanted: Galvatron - Dead Or Alive, Burning Sky, Hunters, Fire On High (UK #113-120) Vicious Circle (UK Annual 1987) King of the Hill!, Mechanical Difficulties! (US #27-28 / UK #111-112, #121–122) |
March 22, 2017 |
| 08 | 39 | Hearts of Steel | The Transformers: Hearts of Steel (IDW)
Hearts of Steel (#1-4) The Transformers: Spotlight (IDW) Galvatron, Optimus Prime (#8-9) Mirage (#13) |
April 5, 2017 |
| 09 | 10 | Trial by Fire | The Transformers (Marvel)
Worlds Apart, Kup's Story (UK #130-132) The Transformers: Headmasters (Marvel) Ring of Hate, Broken Glass, Love and Steel, Brothers in Armour (#1-4 / UK #130-145) The Transformers (Marvel) Trial by Fire, The Desert Island of Space (US #38-39 / UK #156-159) |
April 19, 2017 |
| 10 | 21 | Regeneration One | The Transformers: Regeneration One (IDW)
Counterpoint, Loose Ends (#80.5, 81-85) |
May 3, 2017 |
| 11 | 31 | The Iron Fist | Transformers/G.I. Joe (Dreamwave)
Transformers/G.I. Joe (#1-6) |
May 17, 2017 |
| 12 | 50 | Heart of Darkness | The Transformers: Heart of Darkness (IDW)
Heart of Darkness (#1-4) The Transformers: Infestation (IDW) Infestation (#1-2) |
May 31, 2017 |
| 13 | 59 | Dark Cybertron Part 1 | The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye (IDW)
Dark Cybertron Prelude, Chapters 2, 4, 6 (#22-25) The Transformers: Dark Cybertron (IDW) Dark Cybertron Chapter 1 (#1) The Transformers: Robots In Disguise (IDW) Dark Cybertron Chapters 3, 5 (#23-24) |
June 14, 2017 |
| 14 | 01 | Power Play | The Transformers (Marvel)
The Transformers, Power Play!, Prisoner Of War!, The Last Stand (US #1-4 / UK #1-8) Man of Iron (UK #9-12 / US #33-34) The Enemy Within, Raiders of the Last Ark (UK #13-21) |
June 28, 2017 |
| 15 | 26 | War & Peace | The Transformers: Volume Two (Dreamwave)
War and Peace (#1-6) Preview (Preview) |
July 12, 2017 |
| 16 | 35 | Primacy | The Transformers: Monstrosity (IDW)
Monstrosity (#1-4) The Transformers: Primacy (IDW) Primacy (#1-4) |
July 26, 2017 |
| 17 | 64 | Windblade | The Transformers: Windblade Volume One (IDW)
Windblade (#1-4) The Transformers: Volume Two (IDW) Onyx Interface (#35-38) |
August 9, 2017 |
| 18 | 19 | Perchance to Dream | The Transformers (Marvel)
Out to Lunch!, Rage!, Assault on the Ark!, Mind Games, Two Megatrons!, Underworld!, Demons!, Dawn of Darkness, Fallen Star!, Whose Lifeforce Is It Anyway?, The Greatest Gift of All!, The Void!, Edge of Impact, Shadow of Evil, White Fire, ...Perchance to Dream (UK #240–260) Still Life!, Exodus! (US #76-77 / UK #323-326) |
August 23, 2017 |
| 19 | 40 | Maximum Dinobots | The Transformers: Spotlight (IDW)
Grimlock, Wheelie (#14-15) The Transformers: Maximum Dinobots (IDW) Maximum Dinobots (#1-5) |
September 6, 2017 |
| 20 | 22 | Natural Selection | The Transformers: Regeneration One (IDW)
Natural Selection (#86-90) The Transformers (Marvel) Peace (UK Annual 1989) |
September 20, 2017 |
| 21 | 46 | Things Fall Apart | The Transformers: Volume One (IDW)
Things Fall Apart, All His Engines, Scrapper (#2-8) |
October 4, 2017 |
| 22 | 07 | The Harder They Die | The Transformers (Marvel)
Prey, ...The Harder They Die, Under Fire!, Distant Thunder, Fallen Angel, Resurrection (UK #96-104) Afterdeath!, Gone But Not Forgotten!, Funeral For A Friend! (US #24-26 / UK #105-110) |
October 18, 2017 |
| 23 | 33 | Megatron Origin | The Transformers: Megatron Origin (IDW)
Megatron Origin (#1-4) The Transformers: Spotlight (IDW) Blurr (#20) Orion Pax: Omega's Conundrum (#26) |
November 1, 2017 |
| 24 | 14 | Space Pirates | The Transformers (Marvel)
Wrecking Havoc (UK #172-173) The Big Broadcast of 2006 (US #43 / UK #180-181) Space Pirates, Firebug!, Dry Run! (UK #180-189) Altered Image (UK Annual 1988) The Man in the Machine (US #51 / UK #211-212) |
November 15, 2017 |
| 25 | 43 | All Hail Megatron Part 1[1] | The Transformers: All Hail Megatron (IDW)
All Hail Megatron Chapters 1-8 (#1-8) |
November 29, 2017 |
| 26 | 52 | The Death Of Optimus Prime | The Transformers: Volume One (IDW)
Chaos Chapters 1-4, Pax Cybertronia (#24, 26, 28, 30, 31) The Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime (IDW) The Death of Optimus Prime (One Shot) |
December 13, 2017 |
| 27 | 44 | All Hail Megatron Part 2 | The Transformers: All Hail Megatron (IDW)
All Hail Megatron Chapters 9-16 (#9-16) |
December 27, 2017 |
| 28 | 20 | End Of The Road | The Transformers (Marvel)
A Savage Circle, The Last Autobot?, End of the Road! (US #78-80 / UK #327-332) Starting Over!, Two Steps Back!, Break-Away!, Desert Island Risks!, Once upon a Time…, Life in the Slow Lane, Snow Fun!, Flashback!. Mystery!, The Bad Guy's Ball!, The Living Nightlights!, Cry Wolf!, Wolf in the Fold!, Where Wolf?, Secrets, Bugged!, Internal Affairs!, The House that Wheeljack Built!, Divide and Conquer!, The 4,000,000 Year Itch!, Makin' Tracks!, Shut Up!, Manoeuvres!, Assassins, External Forces!, The Lesser Evil!, Inside Story!, Front Line!, End of the Road! (UK #261-289) |
January 10, 2018 |
| 29 | 72 | The Dying Of The Light | The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye (IDW)
The Dying Of The Light, No Guns No Swords No Briefcases (#50-55) |
January 24, 2018 |
| 30 | 75 | Titans Return Part 1 | The Transformers: Till All Are One (IDW)
07:00:00, Applicable Skills, Things We Said We'd Never Do, The Line Between Us (#1-4) The Transformers: Titans Return (IDW) The Last Autobot (Oneshot) The Transformers: Volume Two (IDW) White Light, White Heat (#56-57) The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye (IDW) Ten To Midnight, Last Light (#56-57) |
February 7, 2018 |
| 31 | 60 | Dark Cybertron Part 2 | The Transformers: Robots In Disguise (IDW)
Dark Cybertron Chapters 7, 9, 11 (#25-27) The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye (IDW) Dark Cybertron Chapters 8, 10 (#26-27) The Transformers: Dark Cybertron (IDW) Finale (Finale) |
February 21, 2018 |
| 32 | 71 | All Hail Optimus | The Transformers: Volume Two (IDW)
All Hail Optimus Part 1, New Worlds Order, All Hail Optimus Parts 2-6 (#50-55) |
March 7, 2018 |
| 33 | 02 | New Order | The Transformers (Marvel)
The New Order, The Worse of Two Evils! Warrior School!, Repeat Performance!, DIS-Integrated Circuits!, The Next Best Thing to Being There! (US #5-10 / UK #22-28, #33-36) Decepticon Dam-Busters!, The Wrath of Guardian!, The Wrath of Grimlock! (UK #29-32) And there Shall Come... A Leader! (UK Annual 1985) |
March 21, 2018 |
| 34 | 03 | Dinobot Hunt | The Transformers (Marvel)
Christmas Breaker!, Crisis of Command, The Icarus Theory, Dinobot Hunt (UK #41-50) Brainstorm!, Prime Time! (US #11-12 / UK #37-40) |
April 4, 2018 |
| 35 | 23 | Destiny | The Transformers: Regeneration One (IDW)
Destiny, (#91-95) Less Than Zero (#0) The Transformers (Marvel) Destiny of the Dinobots (UK Annual 1989) |
April 18, 2018 |
| 36 | 30 | War Within: The Dark Ages | The Transformers: War Within: The Dark Ages (Dreamwave)
Fragmentation, Escalation, Devastation, Revelation, Confrontation, Conflagration (#1-6) |
May 2, 2018 |
| 37 | 45 | Last Stand of the Wreckers | The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers (IDW)
Last Stand of the Wreckers (#1-5) The Transformers: Spotlight (IDW) Prowl: Ride-Along (#25), The Transformers: Volume One (IDW) ...For All Mankind (#1)[2] |
May 16, 2018 |
| 38 | 49 | The Iron Age | The Transformers: Ironhide (IDW)
The Iron Age, Iron in the Blood, Ironing Out the Details, Any Old Iron (#1-4) The Transformers: Volume One (IDW) Space Opera (#19-21) |
May 30, 2018 |
| 39 | 11 | Legacy Of Unicron | The Transformers (Marvel)
Headhunt, What's in a Name? Grudge Match!, Ladies' Night, The Legacy of Unicron!, Ark Duty (UK #133-138, UK #146-151 and 1987 annual)[3] Pretender to the Throne!, Totaled! (US #40,41 / UK #162-163, #174-175) |
June 13, 2018 |
| 40 | 17 | Matrix Quest | The Transformers (Marvel)
Aspects of Evil!, [Double] Deal of the Century!, The Hunting Party, The Big Shutdown!, A Small War!, Prime's Rib!, Deathbringer, Way of the Warrior, Survival Run, A Savage Place! (UK #223-239) The Chain Gang! (UK Annual 1989) Bird of Prey!, Kings of the Wild Frontier, Deadly Obsession, Dark Creation, All Fall Down (US #62-66 / UK 262-264, 282-297) |
June 27, 2018 |
| 41 | 73 | Transformers Vs G.I. Joe Part 1 | Transformers Vs. G.I. Joe (IDW)
The Golden Boys, I Saw Three Ships, Targetmasters, Funeral For A Friend, Form Follows Function, Everybody Hates Metroplex, Expelled From the Garden and Headmasters (#0 and 1-7) |
July 11, 2018 |
| 42 | 76 | Titans Return Part 2 | The Transformers: Till All Are One (IDW)
Ping, Desperate Times, Desperate Measures, Rubicon, Heavy, The Price of You, If I Know You (#5-11) |
July 25, 2018 |
| 43 | 62 | Earthfall | The Transformers: Robots in Disguise (IDW)
Hello Cruel World, Detonation Boulevard, The Mind Bomb, Full Fathom Five, I Dream of Wires, The World of Tomorrow, The Crucible (#28-34) |
August 8, 2018 |
| 44 | 04 | Second Generation | The Transformers (Marvel)
Shooting Star!, Rock and Roll-Out!, I Robot-Master!, Plight of the Bumblebee! (US #13-16 / UK #51-58) Robot Buster!, Devastation Derby!, Second Generation!, To a Power Unknown (UK #59-65 and UK Annual 1986) |
August 22, 2018 |
| 45 | 32 | Infiltration | The Transformers: Infiltration (IDW)
Infiltration (#0-6) |
September 5, 2018 |
| 46 | 24 | The War to End All Wars | The Transformers: Regeneration One (IDW)
The War to End All Wars (#96-100) |
September 19, 2018 |
| 47 | 28 | Worlds Collide Part 2 | Transformers Armada (Dreamwave)
Worlds Collide, The End (#14-18) |
October 3, 2018 |
| 48 | 42 | Revelation | The Transformers: Spotlight (IDW)
Arcee, Cyclonus, Hardhead, Doubledealer, Sideswipe, Jazz and Metroplex (#12, 16-19, 21 and 24) |
October 17, 2018 |
| 49 | 65 | Combiner Wars | The Transformers (IDW)
First Contact, The Possible Light, You, Me and the Universe and Now and On Earth Transformers: Windblade volume 2 (IDW) The Sum and Its Parts, Mistakes and Mayhem, All That Remains and Epilogue |
October 31, 2018 |
| 50 | 79 | Primeless | Transformers: Optimus Prime (IDW)
The Life of Sideswipe, Origin Myths and Primeless 1-2 Transformers: Lost Light (IDW) Chasing the Infinite and The Plotters Club - Full Circle, Filling in the Blanks and Journey's End |
November 14, 2018 |
| 51 | 12 | Cosmic Carnival | November 28, 2018 | |
| 52 | 25 | Prime Directive | December 12, 2018 | |
| 53 | 53 | Liars, A-D | December 26, 2018 | |
| 54 | 55 | Shadowplay | January 9, 2019 | |
| 55 | 13 | City of Fear | January 23, 2019 |
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/TransformersG1Collection/photos/a.1501795126500565.1073741828.1433804286632983/1908871379126269/?type=3
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/TransformersG1Collection/posts/2047290121951060?comment_id=2048220211858051&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R0%22%7D
- ↑ https://twitter.com/SimonFurman3/status/1004341259601895424
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