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The Transformers#89
Cover: Robin Smith & Robin Smith
The Transformers #89
“Aerialbots over America!”
writer Eliot R. Brown · writer Jack Morelli · writer Gerry Conway · artist Herb Trimpe · inker Joe Sinnott · inker Tom Morgan · colorist George Roussos · letterer Rick Parker · cover Robin SmithRobin Smith
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Cast · 28 characters
Full credits
writer Eliot R. Brown
writer Jack Morelli
writer Gerry Conway
artist Herb Trimpe
inker Joe Sinnott
inker Tom Morgan
colorist George Roussos
letterer Rick Parker
cover pencils Robin Smith
cover inks Robin Smith
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Dr. Karl Swensen, inventor of the M.A.X. (Man Amplified X-periment) armor, is killed by an agent of his employer, Fritz Krotze. While going through her father's things Prof. Jennifer “Spitfire” Swensen finds information hinting he may have been killed. She later returns to her father's lab and, aided by MIT students, the Troubleshooters, locates the M.A.X., Model II armor and steals it from the lab. She is pursued by Krotze's agent, Mick Bronson, wearing the M.A.X., Model I armor. Jenny dons the M.A.X., Model II armor, dubbed Spitfire, and defeats Bronson.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).