Wide Load

Rumbling onto the scene in 1987 courtesy of Bob Budiansky, Don Perlin, and Ian Akin, Wide Load is a Copper Age Marvel Transformers character who made their debut in the thick of one of comics' most beloved licensed runs. With only a handful of catalog appearances, Wide Load is a rarity — a background player in a universe populated by giants like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Grimlock, and Blaster, which makes every page they grace feel like a collector's find. Preserved in both The Transformers and the Transformers Compendium, this character represents the deep bench of a mythology that has kept fans hunting back-issue bins across nearly four decades.