Marvel's The Transformers
Transformers 17

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Transformers #17 Universal
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 0633600034
Owner: AlphaPrimeIan

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Marvel's The Transformers
Date Added: 2/25/2011
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Synopsis "Into The Smelting Pool!"

The Transformers' homeworld, the planet Cybertron, is a war-torn, resource-strapped wasteland. Struggling survivors hide from ruthless Decepticon overlords, who hunt them down for sport and scrap metal. The Autobot Blaster, waiting to meet up with his partner Scrounge, encounters one such hunter, and trashes him but good.

Scrounge, meanwhile, has infiltrated the Decepticon headquarters fortress Darkmount, using the wire-guided sensors in his Very Special Arm. He records an interstellar transmission received by Shrapnel and some other Decepticons, who claim it is of world-shaking importance. While retracting his Very Special Arm sensors, Scrounge trips an alarm; he retreats, but Shrapnel captures him outside the fortress.

Blaster returns to Autobase, but only to try and convince his fellow Autobots to search for Scrounge. Citing Scrounge's past unreliability, base commander Perceptor is reluctant to do so, but yields when he's outvoted by his troops.

Shrapnel takes Scrounge to the court of Decepticon commander Straxus. Straxus crushes Scrounge's Very Special Arm during a brief interrogation, and orders him tossed into the smelting pool, a pit that serves the dual function of execution chamber and raw materials processing for the Decepticon war effort.

Perceptor's Autobots question the fuel-starved Empties about Scrounge's disappearance, and learn of his capture. The others give up hope, but Blaster continues the hunt alone. Infiltrating Darkmount, he is briefly captured and brought before Straxus, but the tyrant isn't interested and orders him tossed into the pool.

Blaster soon finds Scrounge... what's left of him, at least; the pool has melted away much of his body. The other Autobots arrive to save Blaster. Scrounge is already too badly damaged to be saved, but he passes on a recording of the Decepticon message to Blaster, who is pulled out of the pool by Powerglide. As the Autobots fight their way out of Darkmount, Blaster uses the molten metal pumped from the smelting pool as a weapon to drive off the attacking Decepticons.

Back at Autobase, the Autobots play the recording and discover that Optimus Prime lives on among the Autobots on Earth. This gives the team new hope, and Scrounge is remembered for his sacrifice.

Published: February 1986
  
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