Auto Bot wrote:For the comics: Connect them to cartoons storyline. Don't be independent.
Ramrider wrote:Auto Bot wrote:For the comics: Connect them to cartoons storyline. Don't be independent.
Surely that should be the other way around, then?
Marvel started the comics before they did the cartoon, so wouldn't that be the 'source material'?
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Ramrider wrote:Comics and cartoons both came out in '84. I'm can't find any refernce as to whether they appeared at exactly the same time, or whether there was a small gap one way or another, and it's starting to hurt my head to look...
Whichever is the case, it seems logical to assume the Marvel comics would take precedence, particularly since it was they who created the original backstory in the first place (specifically it was Jim Shooter and Denny O'Neil who initially came up with the civil war brought to our world, as well as naming the likes of Optimus Prime).
This is the best history I've found in my headache-inducing search for clarification. There's probably better, but I'm not looking right now...
Malikon wrote:about the, "what came first comics or cartoons?" I looked in my book that has a history/timeline and all it said was:
Pre 1984:
Hasbro, looking for something to accompany their new G.I.Joe: A REAL AMERICAN HERO line on the shelves, saw Takaras New Microman and Diaclone:Car Robot toys and saw opportunity. Marvel Comics, who had been tapped to write stories and characters for G.I.JOE, was assigned the task of turning these toys of tiny toy robots and lifeless, piloted mecha into living characters fighting an intergalactic war for energy, as told through packaging bios, comic books and animated TV shows.
1984:
TRANFORMERS launches in the the spring in the US and rocks the market, becoming Hasbros best-selling boys toyline for the year by Christmastime. Kids are drawn to the new play-pattern, and the accompanying media entices them further. Already work begins on a full-length animated motion picture.
It pretty much goes through each year and each series to the present, but this is the part that applied to the topic.
Kinda seems like the comics and the cartoon came out at the same time, and Marvel was the ones who came up with the characters and stories.
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