COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Transformers 41
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0957931007
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Owner:
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AlphaPrimeIan
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Highest grade! This is 1 of 9 CGC 9.8 books!
Synopsis "Totaled!"
Optimus Prime explodes! Having acquired Prime's mind on a floppy disk, the Autobots on the Steelhaven have initiated Project Prime, an attempt to build a new body for the Autobot leader. The team isn't having much luck, as the ship's resources have been depleted by reconstructing Fortress Maximus and Goldbug and creating the Autobot Pretenders. Hot Rod, however, has tracked down the Ark; Fortress Maximus decides to approach Grimlock, leader of the Autobots on Earth, for help.
Grimlock doesn't want to help, and instead demands Fortress Maximus hand over the fugitive Goldbug. Maximus refuses, but to avoid a conflict, Goldbug surrenders. Grimlock is still not satisfied; he challenges Fortress Maximus to one-on-one battle for the leadership of the Autobots under the archaic Code of Combat.
In the brig, Goldbug finds Blaster, strapped to an energy-sucking variable voltage harness. Blaster has become apathetic from his time wasting away, but Goldbug talks him into fighting in the injured Fortress Maximus's place.
Elsewhere, Soundwave has been tracking the Steelhaven... which has led him to the Ark as well. Ratbat is pleased at the chance to destroy all of Earth's Autobots at once.
The two ships land on the Moon. The crews from both the Ark and the Steelhaven assemble to watch Grimlock and Blaster fight it out.
The battle soon draws Blaster and Grimlock away from the rest of the Autobots. In their absence, Ratbat's Decepticons unleash their attack. Onslaught leads the Decepticon assault on the Autobots, while Bonecrusher leads the Constructicons in an attack on the unmanned Ark, to retrieve Decepticon prisoners.
Without strong leadership, the Autobots are losing the battle, so (rather than taking command) Fortress Maximus orders Goldbug to take the skeleton crew on the Steelhaven and leave the scene.
Grimlock and Blaster are still fighting when Blaster notices the battle going on far in the distance. Setting their differences aside, the two Autobots rejoin the battle. Working together, Grimlock and Blaster manage to turn back the Decepticons and damage their ship enough to force a full Decepticon retreat.
Grimlock finally accepts the possibility of working with others, noting that he and Blaster are an effective team. With the Ark and many Autobots damaged, repair work is urgent. But Fortress Maximus notes that the Steelhaven will be unable to help; seeing the need for a true great leader, he has sent the ship to Nebulos, the one place with the technology to properly rebuild Optimus Prime.
Published: February 1988
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