The Transformers is an 80-issue American comic book series published by Marvel Comics telling the story of the Transformers.

Originally scheduled as a four-issue miniseries, it spawned a mythology that would inform other versions of the saga.

It also had a UK sister title that spliced original stories into the continuity, running for 332 issues.

From issue #56, the by then well-known writer of Transformers Marvel UK, Simon Furman took over the reins, having been asked by Marvel US, after Budiansky had grown tired of the comic.

[1] In July 2011, it was announced that IDW Publishing has signed up Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman and Stephen Baskerville (Wildman's Transformers inker) to make a continuation of the Marvel Transformers comic, consisting of 20 issues from #81 to #100, titled The Transformers: Regeneration One.