What were the Collected Comics and Specials?
Transformers Collected Comics was a reprint title providing Transformers holiday specials for Marvel. After reprinting the first four US issues in full colour in late 1985, these dealt with UK stories only. Issues #3 and #4 contained full-colour versions of “Man of Iron” and “The Enemy Within” respectively, initially printed whole stories and from #4 to #12 [excepting #7] featured new covers. They appeared around three to four times a year, in the principle holiday periods – Spring, Easter, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Eighteen issues were produced in the numbered Collected Comics series. Three of the last four issues printed incomplete sagas, and from 1992 the Specials were no longer numbered. They did appear twice a year, though, with the last coming out in Summer 1994 before the license switched to Fleetway. There was also an unnumbered Winter 1986 Special, collecting the ‘Transformers the Movie’ mini-series in a single softcover book.
