The Transformers #73

There's something genuinely unsettling about this cover — multiple giant Transformer silhouettes are fading into blinding white light, their forms dissolving against a burst of radiant energy, while three human-sized figures in the foreground (a woman in pink, a glowing orange-clad figure, and a hulking green character cradling someone) look on. The cover tagline "Less Than Meets the Eye" and the story title "The Vanishing!" set an ominous tone that feels like a real departure from standard robot-brawl fare. Andrew Wildman's pencils and inks for this December 1990 issue lean into the eerie spectacle of absence, making it one of the more visually striking covers of the series' final stretch.