Quest for a Robot Ad

Jumping the gun on the fortieth anniversary of the Transformers for the sake of coming up with an “unpopular fandom opinion” this leap year, I supposed that would preclude trying to make a post about how their comic book had gone on sale in May of 1984. At the start of this month, though, in the course of a mere twenty-fifth anniversary I saw a trailer for a special theatrical showing of the first episodes of the Transformers cartoon, which also amounted to jumping the gun. Somewhere in the midst of all of this, I started recalling having seen a particular comic book ad for “Transformers without their corporate name,” and was amused by the thought it must have been in one of the early Transformers comics themselves, given I didn’t read a lot of comics in my youth.
( A comics quest )