Jessie

Jessie is a human teenager introduced in the very first issue of Marvel's The Transformers, becoming one of the earliest human characters caught up in the conflict between Autobots and Decepticons on Earth. She is closely connected to Buster Witwicky in those opening stories.

Few characters can claim they were there at the very beginning — but Jessie was, debuting in the landmark first issue of Marvel's The Transformers in 1984, the Bronze Age launch that kicked off one of comics' most beloved science-fiction franchises. Created by Bill Mantlo, Ralph Macchio, and Frank Springer, Jessie shares those early, world-building pages with icons like Optimus Prime, Soundwave, and Laserbeak, as well as fellow human Buster Witwicky, placing her right at the heart of the story where the human and Cybertronian worlds first collided. Her appearances are modest in number, but that debut issue alone carries serious collector weight as a key issue, making Jessie a genuine piece of Transformers history. For fans who love tracing a franchise back to its roots, she's a reminder that even in a saga of giant robots, it was the human faces that grounded everything from page one.