Dawn of Darkness

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"Dawn of Darkness"
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First published	2nd December1989
Cover date	9th December1989
Writer	Simon Furman
Art	Geoff Senior
Letterer	Glib
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity(Marvel UK)
Chronology	1989

How do you kill a Demon?

Contents 1Synopsis 2Featured characters 3Quotes 4Notes 4.1Artwork and technical errors 4.2Continuity errors 4.3Continuity notes 4.4Real-life references 4.5Other trivia 4.6Back-up material 4.7Foreign Localization 4.8Cover 4.9Advertisements 4.10Reprints

Synopsis

TheDemonsattackBumblebee,who runs over to where theAutobotsandDecepticonsare fighting.Cindersaurspits a jet of flame at one of the Demons, who merely returns an even larger one, the flame engulfing theFirecon.The Autobots wonder how to tackle the Demon.

Meanwhile, atAutobase,Seawatchstarts blabbering about how the Demons fed on the Decepticons' life-force, a pointEmirateXaaronfinds interesting...

In theUnderworld,the Autobots fight the Demons with their blasters. The Decepticons discuss the situation and agree to help but it is to no avail—the Demons merely feed off the energy. Then Emirate Xaaron andRed Hotarrive with an artillery gun that fires pureenergon.Xaaron's gambit works and the energon overloads the Demons who explode.

Xaaron explains that, according to legend, the Demons were the flipside of theMatrix's good creatures and were entombed byPrimus.There may be thousands more below and if they attack again in force, "None of us will survive!"

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

Notes

Artwork and technical errors

• TBD

Continuity errors

• This story takes place between the US stories "Skin Deep"and"Yesterday's Heroes!"However it was reprinted before them, and consequently pre-empted the resurrection of Grimlock, Jazz and Bumblebee, due to the US material being interrupted by reprints of old UK stories and thus throwing off attempts to make the two strips tie into one another.

Continuity notes

• The Demons would return again in the US story "Still Life!".
• It's not clear if Cindersaur is dead or not, but he is mentioned as still functioning in the later US story "The Last Autobot?".

Real-life references

• The joke on the cover is lifted fromMonty Python'sLife of Brian.

Other trivia

• TBD

Back-up material

• AdditionalTransformersstory:"All the Familiar Faces!"
• Other strips:Action Force- "Law of the Jungle!" andCombat Colin
• Classic Covers Calendar:The twelfth and final in a series of monthly calendars that showcased inks from covers of yesteryear with new colours. This December edition usedBarry Kitson's inks fromissue 145.

Foreign Localization

Swedish

• Title:"Mörkrets Gryning"(" Dawn of Darkness ")

Cover

• Issue #247 cover:The Demons interrupt the Autobots and Decepticons fighting, byJeff Anderson.

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  Issue #247

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Reprints

• Transformers: Aspects of Evil:Rodimus Prime and Unicron fight, byStephen Baskerville.Cropped version ofissue #254'scover.
• Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection:Vol 19: Perchance to Dream:Megatron(from early IDW promo art), byGuido Guidiabove a retro scene of theBattlechargers(fromMarvel UK #255cover), by Stephen Baskerville.

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  Aspects of EvilTPB
  (Titan Books, 2005)

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  The Definitive G1 CollectionVol. 19
  (IDW Publishing, 2017)