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Amazon has revealed the cover of IDW's forthcoming volume 4 of Transformers Classics UK. This volume is priced at $24.99 retail ($16.49 Amazon price) and due to release on February 5th. The cover and product details can be found below:

Transformers Classics UK Volume 4 [Paperback]

Book Description
Publication Date: February 5, 2013
Volume 4 of Transformers Classics UK will cover issues #113-145 and include the 1987 Transformers Annual and the Transformers/Action Force crossover, "Ancient Relics!"

Product details
Paperback: 296 pages
Publisher: IDW Publishing (5 Feb 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1613775172
ISBN-13: 978-1613775172

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFINALLY!!! It's about darn time they showed this cover!

And, what gives? It got moved back to February? It's previous listing was for this month. Guess that's one less thing I'll be getting for Christmas.

Finally I was starting to get a little worried these books had been cancelled.

Sabrblade wrote:And, what gives? It got moved back to February? It's previous listing was for this month.

I don't know what listing you read, but it can't be coming out then, because it wasn't in the Previews catalogue. In fact, this is the first I've ever heard about a release date for it.

Darth Bombshell wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:And, what gives? It got moved back to February? It's previous listing was for this month.

I don't know what listing you read, but it can't be coming out then, because it wasn't in the Previews catalogue. In fact, this is the first I've ever heard about a release date for it.

Amazon originally had it listed as coming December 11, 2012, and now they've bumped it back further to February 5, 2013, as it now says.

What date are you referring to when you say "it can't be coming out then"? If it's the December one, well, duh. It would already have been out by now if it were. If it's the current February one, then that only further ticks me off.

Sabrblade wrote:What date are you referring to when you say "it can't be coming out then"? If it's the December one, well, duh. It would already have been out by now if it were. If it's the current February one, then that only further ticks me off.

I'm referring to the February one, because the Previews catalogue for that month came out last month, and this wasn’t among the TF titles listed as coming out from IDW.

Then again, now that we have a cover image, it's proof that it IS going to be released. When? Dunno. Probably April (but don't hold me to that).

Darth Bombshell wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:What date are you referring to when you say "it can't be coming out then"? If it's the December one, well, duh. It would already have been out by now if it were. If it's the current February one, then that only further ticks me off.

I'm referring to the February one, because the Previews catalogue for that month came out last month, and this wasn’t among the TF titles listed as coming out from IDW.

Then again, now that we have a cover image, it's proof that it IS going to be released. When? Dunno. Probably April (but don't hold me to that).

Do the Previews usually show these TPB releases?

Also, it could be a case like back when you pointed out that the Previews didn't show the Kodansha Sailor Moon Volume 1 release on the date I said that would come, yet it did still get released on that date since I bought it from my local Barnes and Noble on that very day.

Sabrblade wrote:Do the Previews usually show these TPB releases?

They showed the first three, so yeah.

Sabrblade wrote:Also, it could be a case like back when you pointed out that the Previews didn't show the Kodansha Sailor Moon Volume 1 release on the date I said that would come, yet it did still get released on that date since I bought it from my local Barnes and Noble on that very day.

Granted. A quick search of the Chapters website shows that they have a listing for it that has the same release date as the one mentioned in the first post. So maybe it'll get released in bookstores first, then solicited in the Previews for release in comic shops in April (or later).

On the other hand, that's not usually the way it works. First they get solicited in the Previews, then it gets released in the bookstores.

Like I said, I dunno, really. It just seems kinda weird that a bookstore would put up a listing for it with a release date in a month that IDW didn’t say it was coming out in.

This reminds me. I need to catch up with volumes 2 and 3.

In the US series, which issue numbers are these? Or is this UK-exclusive stuff?