Transformers: Best of the Rarities
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 Okay, that is an incredibly misleading title. Rarity doesn't show up even once. | |||||||||||||
| The Rarities | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | August 3, 2022 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Various | ||||||||||||
| Artists | Various | ||||||||||||
| Editors | James Roberts | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Various | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 99 | ||||||||||||
| Price | $6.99 USD | ||||||||||||
Transformers: Best of the Rarities is a one-shot reprint comic published by IDW Publishing. Part of a larger "Best of" line spanning multiple IDW licensed properties, the book collects various stories, largely from Marvel UK.
Overview
Best of the Rarities contains some hard-to-find Transformers stories from the series’ almost 40-year history and some never-before-reprinted material from the U.S. and the UK. Like the other books in the IDW "Best of" line, the collection features new cover art by James Biggie.
Contents
- Five never-before-seen b&w one-page strips by Simon Furman and Robin Smith. (Created in 1989, originally destined for the Sunday Times' Funday Times supplement).
- Marvel UK's #235–6: "Deathbringer" parts 1 & 2 (coloured)
- Marvel UK's #183 mini-story "The Wind of Change!" (depicts Dreadwind taking over from Grimlock as the character being role-played for the letters page)
- Marvel's Generation 2 Halloween special: "Ghosts"
- Marvel UK's #302 text story "Dreadwind's Xmas!" (covers Dreadwind's replacement as letters page avatar by Action Master Blaster)
- Woman's Day 4-page story "The Night the Transformers Saved Christmas"
- Marvel UK's #244: "Two Megatrons!" (coloured)
- Transformers Annual 1992 text story "Another Time & Place"
- Marvel UK's #260: "Perchance to Dream: Galvatron" (coloured)
- IDW Publishing's "An Arcee Sort of Day" (from the Synergy anthology produced for International Woman's Day 2019)
- Marvel UK's #261: "Starting Over!" (coloured)
- Untitled (pilot for European comic published in toy catalogues; English translation based on a fan translation posted on the internet in 2013, with new lettering and some minor changes for closer accuracy to the Spanish version, which the fan translation was based on)
- "Madman" (Furman/Roche script from an Australian DVD release)
- 50 examples of hand-painted covers (minus cover furniture), penciled artwork (including some from Target: 2006), unused TFUK and IDW covers, art from IDW's unpublished Collision Course miniseries, rare posters, and pages from unpublished stories.
