IDW Transformers Classics Volume 4 Preorder

Finally!

Ouuuuuu! 39-50. Niceee! The Headmasters come to earth and hook up with the G1 bots. Op comes back as well as the underbase saga. I'll probably pass on the vol after this tho' as the book fell off in a major way until Furman/Wildman got on the book. Whichever vol that is, that's the one I'll renew picking up.

Furman started with issue 56, which means you won't get to skip any volumes.

Is it different from this:

NEW - Classic Transformers Volume 4 (v. 4) 9781600104442 | eBay

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Excellent!

Yes. That was the first reprint series that IDW did. They're now reprinting them again, including issues they didn't have the rights for the first time around.

ahh, so now they can reprint the curcuit breaker issues and all the other marvel owned stuff? If so that sounds like a must buy for me.

If I want vol. 1-2-3 of the new series, which titles should I look for? This is confusing.

I just have the new version of the volumes 1 and 2. Their great, the remastering process is much less glossy and the colors are hued accurately. The bordering is also kind of classy.
You can recognize the new versions by their mostly black covers. With a character like Megatron splashed on it. The old IDW versions have comic page panels epicly pasted around the cover. Which I appreciated at the time. Because you knew instantly you were buying the orginal comics. The worst to me is doing entirely new vibrant art for the covers that looks like something from the current ongoing transformers IDW covers.

It may be a groovy tribute for the Artist. But I think it discourages sales of those trying to break into transformers shopping on amazon. When they can't find the classic comics easily among the modern comics.

That said. I'm glad IDW has'nt gone down that particular route. But its still confusing enough just from the comic panel cover reprints still being widely available.

I'm stoked on this. But still have to track down Volumes 2 and 3!

I was hoping that Headmasters would be included in this volume between issues 37 and 38. I wonder if that one will ever get reprinted.

The mini isn't included?

Indeed, it is. Here you go:

Amazon.com: Transformers Classics Volume 1 TP (9781600109355): Bob Budiansky, Bill Mantlo, Ralph Macchio, Jim Salicrup, Frank Springer, Alan Kupperberg, William Johnson, Mike Manley, Ricardo Villamonte, Herb Trimpe, Don Perlin: Books

Amazon.com: Transformers Classics Volume 2 (9781613770917): Bob Budiansky, Don Perlin, Herb Trimpe: Books

Amazon.com: Transformers Classics Volume 3 (9781613771631): Bob Budiansky, Steve Parkhouse, Don Perlin, John Ridgway, Mike Collins, Jose Delbo: Books

Too bad this volume skips over the issues that actually introduce those characters, their origin and what they're all about.

Nope.

Why?

No one knows.

More Classics?!? YAAAAAAAAAAAAYY!!!!



Oh... books.

Two questions: If Issues #39-50 are being included, why does the article show a picture of issue #38? (#38 would be a better starting point, IMLTHO.)
Do you mean to tell me that the Vol. 1 I almost considered buying would not have come with Issue #3 (the one where Gears and Spider-Man *cough*Venom*cough* take Frenzy, Rumble, Ravage and Soundwave out of action and completely webbed up Megatron!?) and Issue #9 (which would explain the partnership between Blackrock and the Autobots, as well as introduce the Superman III-inspired (j/k) Circuit Breaker)? Unspeakable!

I was going to provide someone new to Transformers with the Christmas gift of seeing Starscream in his correct colors in plane mode, but something worse in robot mode!

What they said.

@ Cal.
Please don't wish upon us a Nel Yomtov-colored Classics Starscream (unless it's from after issue #47). We did get a Yomtov-colored Classics Jazz -- Pretender Classics, that is.

pre-ordered. How many issues are in this series?

Classics Volume 4?
And here I just bought all the other 3 after reading the Free Comic Book day TF comic. (ReGeneration one)

Yes, all issues previously excluded by IDW (or Titan, for that matter) are reprinted in this new set.

My Titan books have all of the Circuit Breaker and Spider-Man issues.

Need to wait until the digital version appears on Comixology. Maybe with two more volumes we'll have almost all G1 comics. Still needs digital GI Joe/Transformers crossover and the Headmasters mini.

Digital Vol 2 and Vol 3 have all Circuit Breaker stuff (and Vol 3 ends at #38), but the description of Vol 1 says it skips issue #3 and #9. I don't know about the dead-trees volumes.

80 issues. Plus the 4-issue Headmasters series, which hopefully will be collected at the end (even though for the flow of the story, it belongs in the middle of this volume), and the 4-issue GI Joe/Transformers crossover.

The Titan trades collect the Marvel stuff too. The article stating otherwise is incorrect. These are a great way to get all of the main run but I feel like the recoloring looks very generic. I'm finishing up my Titan collection as well. They look much more like the books were originally presented. Better too in my opinion.

Man I want to get all these. But other then the Spiderman missing issues does anyone know if Circuit Breaker issues are still in? Did they change her?

Anyone here able to get all of them then sell them for the same price or close?

The Spider-man issue is included in this series, as are appearances from Circuit Breaker. They were omitted from the first Classics Marvel reprints from IDW, but are back in this current (re-)reprint series. They were also in the old Titan reprints, for anyone looking to track those down.

Maybe this will help.

If it looks like this, all issues are included. This is the current IDW reprint series.
Amazon.com: Transformers Classics Volume 1 TP (9781600109355): Bob Budiansky, Bill Mantlo, Ralph Macchio, Jim Salicrup, Frank Springer, Alan Kupperberg, William Johnson, Mike Manley, Ricardo Villamonte, Herb Trimpe, Don Perlin: Books

If it looks like this, all issues are included. This is the old Titan reprints from about 7-8 years ago.
Amazon.com: Transformers Beginnings Graphic Novel: Books

If it looks like this, issues with Spider-Man, Circuit Breaker, and other Marvel owned characters were omitted. This is the original IDW reprint series. You'll want to avoid these, probably.
Amazon.com: Classic Transformers, Vol. 1: Bob Budianski, Don Perlin: Books

These are just the first in each paperback reprint series, but in each case the entire series carries forward the same general cover style, so you should be able to figure it out pretty easily.

I agree with you. The Titan books collect the Marvel issues just the way they were originally printed. All the original coloring and everything. The art reproduction is better, too.

The new IDW books have been recolored to fix the "mistakes", but to me, that just makes them feel less authentic. The linework in the IDW books suffers as well.

Hey thanks.

Now I just gotta figure out how to get em.

The Titan TPBs were missing the Man of Iron (33-34) and Big Broadcast of 2006 (#43).

They weren't important to the overall story, but for the completist, they're missing.

Oh man thank god. I was worried they would've left me hanging after volume 3.

I think Man of Iron was reprinted in Titan's collections of the UK series (where it first appeared). And I think Big Broadcast is flat-out out of continuity. So I can understand why Titan felt it was okay to skip them...I guess. Though I do think they should have kept them in and let each reader decide for themselves.

I am missing those surrounding Titan issues currently, so you've got me there. I do know the rest were collected. Thanks for pointing that out though. I do appreciate it.

How many Titan TPB books did it take to cover the whole 80 issue run? Don't the Titan TPB's each only have like 6 issues?

I forget how many volumes, because they started from the end of the series (second half of Furman's run), then kind of worked their way back (first half of Furman's run and THEN went to the beginning of the series). I think it ended up being something like 14 volumes? But keep in mind that the Titan volumes also include the Headmasters mini where it is supposed to take place between issues of the regular series. And then another 2 volumes for G2.


But yeah, it wasn't very many issues per book. 6 sounds about right. But the reproduction was much higher quality than the IDW books (sorry, IDW, but it's true).

Cool. Thank you!

Yes, but didn't include:

issues #33-34
issue #43
The Animated Movie mini series #1-3

Now granted, none of these are "in continuity" with the rest of the series, but I wish people would stop going on about how Titan printed everything. They didn't.

IDW WILL be reprinting the Headmasters series at the end of the 80-issue run, just like they did with their first round of "Classics" volumes. They'll also be reprinting the Animated movie mini-series.

For the sake of completeness, I'd also like them to include the Universe profile mini-series #1-4.

And I have a sneaky suspicion they'll reprint G2 in a Classics volume this time round.

And in answer to others' questions about the Titan books: Each volume had a maximum of 6 issues, some only had 5!! There were 14 volumes, plus two more for Generation 2.

Titan NEVER reprinted "Man Of Iron", either in their US or UK series. They also never reprinted many earlier UK stories such as "Enemy Within", "Wrath of Guardian" etc (Furman had a huge hand in the Titan volumes and basically didn't like the stuff so got it vetoed. What's more annoying about this slightly arrogant approach is the excellent "Crisis of Command" - which Furman did not write - also got omitted!)

Thankfully, IDW are doing it all right now.

Figure I'd bump this up since the cover's been revealed. It's Starscream (predictably). Not bad. Just glad that this is coming out.
Amazon.com: Transformers Classics Volume 4 (9781613774977): Bob Budiansky, Ralph Macchio, Various: Books