Marvel's The Transformers
Transformers 40

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Transformers #40 Universal
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 1059683015
Owner: AlphaPrimeIan

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Marvel's The Transformers
Date Added: 8/10/2012
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Highest grade! This is 1 of 13 CGC 9.8 books!

Synopsis "Pretender To The Throne!"

Since Optimus Prime's destruction, Ethan Zachary has been using the copy of Prime's mind he had saved on a floppy disk at that time to play video games. Although Prime is sentient and able to converse with Zachary, Prime believes himself to be nothing more than a computer character.

In an attempt to convince Optimus Prime that he is more than this, Zachary tries to phone Buster Witwicky, but ends up talking to his father, Sparkplug. Embittered by recent events, Sparkplug rants at Zachary, then hangs up.

Fortunately, Spike Witwicky bugged his old man's apartment and overhears the mention of Optimus Prime. He, Goldbug, and Brainstorm, on board the Steelhaven, discuss the possibility that Prime might be alive, and Goldbug travels to Earth to investigate. Goldbug traces the phone call to Alternate Reality, Inc., Zachary's computer game company.

Zachary and Goldbug meet, compare notes, and surmise that sending Optimus Prime on a mission might help him understand that he is more than a program. They send Prime into the computer of a genetics lab that has been seized by the Decepticons. There, Optimus learns about the experiment by Headmaster Decepticon leader Scorponok to create the Pretenders. Copying the data from this experiment, Prime returns to Goldbug and Zachary, but his computerized presence does not go unnoticed. While Goldbug and Zachary transmit this data to the spacecraft above, thus creating Autobot Pretenders, the Decepticon Pretenders trace Prime back to Zachary's software company and launch an attack. The computerized Prime coordinates the Autobot Pretenders' successful defense of the company's headquarters, and the Decepticons are repulsed. However, this experience does nothing to convince Prime that he is a real, living robot.

Published: January 1988
  
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