The Transformers #41

This June 1988 Marvel issue makes an immediate impression with its sprawling cover — penciled by José Delbo and inked by Dave Hunt — depicting a staggering assembly of Transformers in both robot and vehicle modes scattered across what appears to be a rocky, debris-strewn surface, with Earth looming in the star-filled background and jets streaking overhead. The sheer density of the image is remarkable, cramming in dozens of Autobots and Decepticons — robots, tanks, jets, cars, and more — in a chaotic tableau that suggests something truly massive is at stake. Titled "Totaled!" and produced by the creative team of Bob Budiansky, José Delbo, Danny Bulanadi, Nel Yomtov, and Bill Oakley, this issue promises the kind of large-scale Cybertronian conflict that made Marvel's Transformers run so compelling in 1988.