The Transformers #38
From Marvel's 1988 run of The Transformers, issue #38 — "Trial by Fire!" — drops readers into a tense, large-scale confrontation set across a rocky, cavernous landscape. The cover, penciled by Frank Springer and inked by Dave Hunt, places a massive, gun-wielding Decepticon front and center while two human figures scramble nearby, caught between towering mechanical combatants exchanging energy blasts in the background. With Bob Budiansky writing and José Delbo on interior art, this mid-series chapter promises the kind of all-out chaos the title delivered so reliably throughout 1988.
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The Autobot Headmasters arrive on Earth, and track Goldbug's distress signal to the former Ark site, where they find Spike Witwicky and the small toy car that holds Goldbug's brain. Fortress Maximus has been upgraded where his head is now another Autobot named Cerebros and Galen is the head of Cerebros. The Decepticon Headmasters also arrive on Earth, and track the signal to the same site. As a battle erupts between the two warring factions, Galen and Lord Zarak detach from their respective Transformers to fight, but Galen sacrifices his life to save Spike.
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