Who wrote and drew the UK series?
Nearly all of the UK exclusive stories were penned by Simon Furman, who debuted on the series with #13. Having previously written for the horror magazine ‘Scream!’ and edited ‘Captain Britain’, ‘Transformers’ was one of his first comic writing jobs, and he would be the UK series’ primary writer until it was cancelled. He wrote the final new UK strip for #289, by which time he had been writing the US series for some time. Only a handful of the 104 UK-made comic stories weren’t written by him. The first of these was Marvel UK’s first indigenous story, ‘Man of Iron’ [#9-12] was written by Steve Parkhouse, whose other work included ‘Doctor Who Weekly/Monthly/Magazine’. James Hill wrote the seasonal #41, and three of the other ‘Christmas stories’ were only plotted by Furman, with Hill [#93], Ian Rimmer [#145] and Dan Abnett [#198] scripting. Abnett would also script #188-189 from outlines by Furman. The only other story not credited to Furman is “Crisis of Command”, printed in #42-44 – Mike
