Marvel's The Transformers
Transformers 52

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Transformers #52 Universal
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 0795977015
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 1 of 16 CGC 9.8 books.

Synopsis "Guess Who the Mecannibals Are Having for Dinner?"

In the wake of the Underbase incident, dozens of Autobots are inoperative with severe microchip damage. Optimus Prime sends Pretenders Landmine and Cloudburst on a mission to secure microchips from the black market on Grand Central Space Station, where robots are not welcome (as demonstrated when the crowd at a local bar shoves a Chromite out an airlock). The Pretenders soon find chip dealers, not realizing that the dealers are actually Nebulan Powermasters Hi-Test and Throttle. They also meet Berko and discover that a fellow Autobot, Sky Lynx, has recently been to the station, but went missing soon after Berko attempted to make a deal with the same shady pair.

Landmine attempts to recover Sky Lynx by insisting that the dealers take them to the suppliers directly. The Pretenders soon find themselves face to face with the Mecannibals, robot-eating mechanical lifeforms. They are safe from the Mecannibals' appetite only thanks to their human-appearing outer shells. The Mecannibals agree to do business over dinner: Sky Lynx.

Landmine's inner robot form, which had stayed outside at the beginning of the "deal", arrives to free Sky Lynx. He gratefully escapes, and Landmine's inner robot recombines with his outer shell in the confusion, unseen by the Mecannibals. They soon complete the deal for the microchips and return to the space station.

All would be well, except the Pretenders decide to reveal their robotic nature to Berko afterward. This is witnessed by Hi-Test and Throttle, who notify a local bartender, J'oh. When the Pretenders go to the bar to settle Berko's tab, they are quickly overwhelmed by the station's robot-hating populace and are shoved out of an airlock. Before Landmine and Cloudburst can re-orient themselves, they are knocked out by Dreadwing and transported back to the Mecannibals' ship. It seems that the Mecannibals are eager to replace the meal they just lost, and two Autobots in synthetic flesh shells will do just fine!

Published: January 1989
  
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