WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Robot-Master (Donny Finkleberg, from Transformers) — introduction
Dates
- Cover date
- April 1986
- On sale
- December 24, 1985
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #15 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition75¢ cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition75¢ cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 0714860237904 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Canadian price edition0.95 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 0.95 CAD.
Barcode 0714860237904 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Creators
pencils: Herb Trimpe, Don Perlin, Jim Mooney, June Brigman, Mary Wilshireinks: Herb Trimpe, Keith Williams, Mike Esposito, Bob Wiacekscript: Bob Budiansky, Jim Shootercolors: Nel Yomtovletters: Janice Chiang
Stories
- I, Robot-Master! · 22 pages
Donny Finkleberg, a failed comic-book writer, is paid by the I.I.I. to take on the persona of Robot-Master and claim that he's controlling the Transformers. He quickly realizes the error of his ways when he is captured by Megatron and the Decepticons.
Characters
Optimus PrimeMegatronBumblebeeSoundwaveShockwaveRavageWheeljackLaserbeakBuzzsawHoundG. B. BlackrockSkidsHoistTracksDonny FinklebergWalter BarnettRobot-MasterForrest Forsythe
Reprinted in
The Transformers (1984), Transformers (2001), Transformers Compendium (2025)