The Death of Optimus Prime (1986)

In the table below, the first series and the second series are usually known as the U.S. series and the U.K. series, respectively.

IMAGE	TITLE	DESCRIPTION	STATUS
	The Transformers (first series) #24	Optimus Prime dies; cover-dated January 1987	1
	The Transformers (second series) #105	reprints the first half of Transformers (first series) #24	0
	The Transformers (second series) #106	reprints the second half of Transformers (first series) #24	0
	The Transformers (first series) #25	Megatron goes insane, then dies	1
	The Transformers (second series) #107	reprints the first half of Transformers (first series) #25	0
	The Transformers (second series) #108	reprints the second half of Transformers (first series) #25	0
	The Transformers (first series) #26		1
	The Transformers (second series) #109	reprints the first half of Transformers (first series) #26	0
	The Transformers (second series) #110	reprints the second half of Transformers (first series) #26	0
	The Transformers (first series) #27	Trypticon appears; Grimlock becomes Autobot leader	1
	The Transformers (second series) #111	reprints the first half of Transformers (first series) #27	0
	The Transformers (second series) #112	reprints the second half of Transformers (first series) #27	0
G.I.JOE AND THE TRANSFORMERS
	G.I. Joe and the Transformers #1	"Blood on the Tracks!" (reprinted in Transformers (second series) #265-268); seems to occur between #23 and #24 (Optimus Prime appears and makes a reference to #23); cover-dated January 1987	0
	G.I. Joe and the Transformers #2	"Power Struggle" (reprinted in Transformers (second series) #269-272); seems to occur between #24 and #25 (new reaches the Autobots in the field of Optimus Prime's "assassination" and Megatron already seems depressed, though note that the Decepticons are shown in their artificial island in the Florida Keys and in #25 were moving there from their strip-mine base in Wyoming)	0
	G.I. Joe and the Transformers #3	"Ashes to Ashes" (reprinted in Transformers (second series) #273-276); seems to occur between #25 and #27 (the Autobots are shown finishing their funeral for Optimus Prime and Shockwave rules the Decepticons)	0
	G.I. Joe and the Transformers #4	"All Fall Down!" (reprinted in Transformers (second series) #277-281); seems to occur before the selection of Grimlock as the Autobot leader (in #27); cover-dated April 1987	0

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