Writer James Roberts have revealed, via his Twitter account, the content of the upcoming IDW’s Transformers Best of The Rarities collection.
Best of the Rarities includes some hard-to-find Transformers stories from the series’ almost 40-year and some never-before-reprinted material from the U.S. and the UK. Read on for the full list (the last 2 items were confirmed by James Roberts on his Twitter):
- Deathbringer parts 1 & 2 (coloured), Marvel UK issues 235-6
- Ghosts (1993 G2 Halloween special)
- The Wind of Change (a mini story from Marvel UK issue 183, depicting Dreadwind taking over from Grimlock as the character being role-played for the letters page)
- The Night the Transformers Saved Christmas (A Woman’s Day exclusive story from 1985)
- Dreadwind’s XMas (a text story from TF UK 304, covering Dreadwind’s replacement as letters page avatar by Action Master Blaster)
- Two Megatrons (coloured) Marvel UK 244
- Another Time and Place (the text story from the TFUK 1992 Annual, ending the Marvel continuity at the time)
- An Arcee Sort of Day (from the Synergy anthology produced for International Woman’s Day 2019)
- Untitled (Forman/Roche script from an Australian DVD release)
- Perchance to Dream: Galvatron (coloured) Marvel UK 260
- Starting Over (coloured) Marvel UK 261
- Untitled (pilot for European comic published in toy catalogues; new translation)
- Five never-before-seen b&w one-page strips by Simon Furman and Robin Smith. (Created in 1989, originally destined for the Sunday Times’ Funday Times supplement).
- 50 examples of hand-painted covers (minus cover furniture), pencilled artwork (including some from Target: 2006), unused TFUK and IDW covers, rare posters, and pages from unpublished stories.
This comic collection was originally expected for release in July this year, but now it’s now due to be released in August.
