The Transformers #8

The Dinobots crash onto the scene in issue #8 of Marvel's The Transformers, and the cover — penciled by M. D. Bright and inked by Kyle Baker — makes a bold statement with three of the robotic prehistoric warriors looming large against a rocky, jungle backdrop: a snarling T-rex-mode Dinobot rearing up at center, flanked by a long-necked sauropod form on the left and a triceratops-headed Dinobot on the right. That bold cover proclamation — "And Now… The Dinobots!" — captures exactly the kind of thrilling energy this 1985 Marvel series delivered month after month. With Bob Budiansky writing and a sharp creative team inside, this is a satisfying chapter in one of the decade's most ambitious licensed comics runs.