Just posted on Facebook by an old fried of mine is this picture. 1980 we think. Leicester Polytechnic, or DeMonfort University as its now known (blah) The wonders of Facebook mean that I am still in touch with most of these people. Which ones me? go on, I dare you.
As an additional note to my previous post I just had to add this. Its from Goktimus Prime. Awesome…
Goktimus Prime: I love that cover. 
I few years ago I tried to render several comic covers in toy form, here’s my attempt at recreating the cover of #74 with my toys, hope you like it.
Another piece of Marvel Transformers original cover art is now on eBay. Its the cover to issue #74. This is the one with Optimus Prime and Scorponok fighting side by side against the horde of Unicron followers. Love this cover for the busyness and all on a white background. I always think white backgrounds work well on covers. really makes them ‘pop’ off the comics rack.
Also with this one is an additional goodie. Stuck on the back of the art is a Marvel Comics branded envelope. Inside said envelope is the UPS artwwork.
‘Whats that Andrew?’ well, you may know that Marvel did (may still do) two versions of their books. One was for newstand sales and one was for direct sales (through comic shops). The one that sold through newstands has a UPC barcode in a little box in the bottom left corner. This is what gets scanned when you buy it and helps the shop’s stock control system. The ones that go to Direct Sales comic shops don’t have this. In that box they stick a small advert or some other such Marvel related info. The one here is promoting 50 years of Marvel. The bit of art is stuck on a photocopy of the cover to show positioning.
Not sure who’s great idea it was but I picked up on the idea of doing a small illustration in those boxes at some point. So anyone who has a Transformers comic with a barcode in only has half the deal. I think I only picked up on it by the time I got to issue #76 so no little illo on this one. Take a look at the ‘Cover Browser’ site HERE to see the covers as they appeared and you will see some of those little illustrations. I think 76 and 77 being my favourite 
Auction is now live here
The auction of the first two Marvel Transformers covers has now finished. Result was good, as in they both went to good homes Bad news is that they didnt get as much as the previous auction of GI Joe covers. Bad simpy because I was hoping to pay my cats vet bill with the proceeds. So its a sad story but the poor chap, Pablo, got hit by a car and vet bills are running into four figures!! Serves us right for being squashy mamals rather than machine reparable robots Seems ironic after my car accident a couple of weeks ago when I was hit by a truck and pushed off of the motorway. Fortunately I didnt need to go to the vet. As for the car? well that failed miserably to transform and has now been laid to rest.
So I may get another couple of covers up next weekend. Will see how how Pablo feels.
