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1. The New Order and Ratchet's Quest
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| The Transformers (first series) #5 | "The New Order"; cover-dated May 1985 | 0 |
| The Transformers (second series) #22 | reprints the first half of Transformers (first series) #5; also includes back-up material | 0 |
| The Transformers (second series) #23 | reprints the second half of Transformers (first series) #5; also includes back-up material | 0 |
| The Transformers (first series) #6 | "The Worse of Two Evils"; Shockwave trashes Megatron; cover-dated July 1985 | 1 |
| The Transformers (second series) #24 | reprints the first half of Transformers (first series) #6; also includes back-up material | 0 |
| The Transformers (second series) #25 | reprints the second half of Transformers (first series) #6; also includes back-up material | 0 |
| Transformers: Beginnings | collects Transformers (first series) #1-6
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| The Transformers (first series) #7 | "Warrior School"; Kyle Baker inks; cover-dated August 1985 | 1 |
| The Transformers (second series) #26 | reprints all of Transformers (first series) #7; also includes back-up material | 0 |
| The Transformers (first series) #8 | "Repeat Performance"; Kyle Baker inks; features the Savage Land; Megatron defeated | 2 |
| The Transformers (second series) #27 | reprints the first half of Transformers (first series) #8; also includes back-up material | 0 |
| The Transformers (second series) #28 | reprints the second half of Transformers (first series) #8; also includes back-up material | 0 |
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2. Interlude: Return to the Ark
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| The Transformers (second series) #29 | features the first part of the 2-part "Decepticon Dambusters" (which begins with a TV broadcasting a shot of the Dinobots fighting Megatron, from the end of #8 of the U.S. series or the previous issue of the U.K. series); also features back-up material | 0 |
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| The Transformers (second series) #30 | features the second part of the 2-part "Decepticon Dambusters"; also features back-up material | 0 |
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| The Transformers (second series) #31 | features "The Wrath of Guardian" (continuing from the previous issue); also features back-up material | 0 |
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| The Transformers (second series) #32 | features "The Wrath of Grimlock" (continuing from the previous issue and concluding with a panel showing Circuit-Breaker in the hospital, setting up the next issue's American reprint); also features back-up material | 0 |
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3. Prime Time
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| The Transformers (first series) #9 | "Dis-Integrated Circuits"; features Circuit-Breaker | 1 |
| The Transformers (second series) #33 | reprints the first half of Transformers (first series) #9; also includes back-up material | 0 |
| The Transformers (second series) #34 | reprints the second half of Transformers (first series) #9; also includes back-up material | 0 |
| The Transformers (first series) #10 | "The Next Best Thing To Being There"; features the Constructicons | 0 |
| The Transformers (second series) #35 | reprints the first half of Transformers (first series) #10; also includes back-up material | 0 |
| The Transformers (second series) #36 | reprints the second half of Transformers (first series) #10; also includes back-up material | 0 |
| The Transformers (first series) #11 | "Brainstorm"; features Jetfire | 0 |
| The Transformers (second series) #37 | reprints the first half of Transformers (first series) #11; also includes back-up material | 0 |
| The Transformers (second series) #38 | reprints the second half of Transformers (first series) #11; also includes back-up material | 0 |
| The Transformers (first series) #12 | "Prime Time"; Optimus Prime battles Shockwave; cover-dated January 1986 | 0 |
| The Transformers (second series) #39 | reprints the first half of Transformers (first series) #12; also includes back-up material | 0 |
| The Transformers (second series) #40 | reprints the second half of Transformers (first series) #12; also includes back-up material | 0 |