It made sense, then, for Hasbro to hit Marvel up again, this time to flesh out the official storyline for the toy manufacturer's form-changing robots. Joe: A Real American Hero series that ran for an astonishing 155 issues to resounding success. Marvel - specifically writer, artist and Vietnam War veteran Larry Hama and a host of artists - had reworked a scrapped Nick Fury comic into what became the original G.I. But the origins of the original (or Generation 1) Transformers canon came in 1983 from what might come as a surprise to some: Marvel Comics. As a franchise, Transformers owes its existence to Hasbro discovering two existing Japanese changing robot toylines, Diaclone and Microchange, and mashing them together to create a new one of its own.
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