Marvel's The Transformers
Transformers 43

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Transformers #43 Universal
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 0795977008
Owner: AlphaPrimeIan

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Marvel's The Transformers
Date Added: 7/13/2011
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Highest grade! This is one of 21 CGC books!

Synopsis "Big Broadcast Of 2006"

The Quintessons disgorge the Sharkticons on the planet of Junk to recover a lost artifact. When Wreck-Gar learns of their presence, he leads his fellow Junkions in driving off the Sharkticons. Realizing that the Junkions' power and defensive nature will make recovering their canister by force too difficult, the Quintessons arrange for a more passive approach.

The next day, Wreck-Gar and his people awaken to find a massive new projection TV and satellite dish waiting for them, transmitting the Universal Broadcasting Network. Instilling the programming with hypnotic harmonics, the Quintessons begin broadcasting subliminal xenophobic messages to the Junkions, convincing them that "all other lifeforms are their enemies!"

As word of the Junkions' transfixation spreads, space scouts Sky Lynx and Astrotrain bring word of it to their respective Autobot and Decepticon camps. Rodimus Prime instructs the Aerialbots to commit further surveillance, but Galvatron couldn't be any less interested.

On Junk, the second hypnotic signal begins transmitting, influencing the Junkions to adopt the principles of neatness and organization. In effect, the Quintessons are making the Junkions search for their canister, and leave it neatly labeled and categorized somewhere for them to retrieve.

As the Aerialbots begin their reconnaissance run, though, they get caught in a crossfire between the now-xenophobic Junkions and the hiding Quintessons. Fireflight uses his photon displacer gun to disrupt the Quintesson ship so that they can't track the Aerialbots anymore. The Autobots manage to regroup and form Superion, attacking the Quintesson ship head-on. His attack on the ship's force field overloads their systems, causing a feedback explosion which knocks Superion for a loop, but also destroys the Quintessons' weapons. They beat a hasty retreat while Superion is rescued by Sky Lynx.

Back on Junk, though, another aspect of the Quintessons' system damage becomes evident, as the Junkions are now being fed the message of "caring and sharing". In following that directive, Wreck-Gar realigns the satellite dish to broadcast the Quintessons' subliminal message out into the universe. This puts the entire universe on the edge of interstellar war, and the center of the conflict is the planet Junk, where the majority of hypnotized warmongers felt compelled to travel to.

As the Autobots and Decepticons arrive, Omega Supreme deals with the space armada while Rodimus Prime heads down to Junk and battles a hypnotized Galvatron, who was also drawn into the conflict. By freak coincidence, he happens to redirect one of Galvatron's blasts perfectly to catch a passing Quintesson ship, sending the canister it had come to retrieve hurling out through the vacuum of space.

In the meantime, Ultra Magnus and Blaster have come up with a plan to stop the hypnotic broadcasting. Omega Supreme carries Blaster high into the air, where he broadcasts a high volume musical jamming signal. His mind momentarily cleared, Galvatron wails about how TeeVee bewitched him, and destroys the projection screen and antenna.

Freed of their mind control, the Junkions join the Autobots in driving the Decepticons off of Junk. It's all over, but the Autobots still have no idea what this all was about. In the meantime, the Quintessons lament the loss of their canister.

Published: April 1988
  
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