Rodimus Prime wrote:Is there a definite length of time stated by the comics themselves, in both G1 and IDW, that elapsed from issue 1 to the final issue of their respective stories? I know the G1 comics started in 1984, but I don't remember anything more specific, and issue #78 was stated as 1991, but also nothing specific. Was it ever said what the date was when the Ark crashed in Canada and the Autobots returned to Cybertron? What about IDW, starting either at the very beginning or at least with the cast split in 2012?
The Ark crashed in Canada?
Forget asking about dates.....you need to ask about locations lol
Just a joke,
I’m the Marvel comics the Ark did
NOT crash in Canada
Roughly 4million years ago, the Ark crashed into a Volcano just outside a part of the world that would become known as Portland Oregon United States of America
The fictional volcano was named Mount St Hillary, The inspiration for that fictional volcano was Mount Saint Helens just outside of the state of Washington
As far as dates go, it seems that in the Marvel comics they played it very loosely, for example Booster (the human friend) did not seem to age very much over the books run....and yet in the stories covering the arrival of Unicron in the comics the books Reference the then current year the book was printed within the story, the 1990s....so we can be argued that real world time has passed
Likewise, the real world year was also mentioned in the UK Target 2006 stories
Based on that, it would seem it’s safe to assume that date the autobots return to cybertron was on the release date of the final issue of the comic, which would be in late 1990 , not the printed date, it was a comic book practice to have cover dates on books that were nearly 4 months in advanced.
For example, the first issue of the Marvel Transformers comic was released in May of 84, but the cover date is September
