Blackjack (Transformers)
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Blackjack is a fictional character in the various Transformers series introduced in 1989. He is a Deceppicon Micromaster who turns into a car.
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Transformers: Generation 1
Blackjack is a Micromaster Decepticon car.[1] He is devious and brave, more a schemer than a combatant. He has a top speed of 400 mph.
Marvel Comics
Blackjack first appeared in the Marvel Transformers issue #56 where Megatron sent the Sports Car Patrol to trick the Autobot medic Ratchet into following them and being captured for Megatron plot to bring back Starscream as a Pretender. [2]
Blackjack last appeared in issue #59, where he was sent to put an explosive on board the Ark, but he was captured by Blurr, Kup and Getaway.
Dreamwave Productions
Blackjack appeared in issue #2 of the Micromasters limited series as well as getting a full page biography in the More Than Meets The Eye series.
IDW Publishing
Blackjack appeared in the Transformers: Spotlight #2, which starred the Autobot Nightbeat. The story focuses on Nightbeat's investigation of the first Ark thousands of years before. This leads him to a trader offering to sell him the original flight recorder from the Ark. The trader's subsequent murder leads Nightbeat to a gigantic metallic underground sea, where he is ambushed by an unfamiliar group of Transformers (The Micromaster Sports Car Patrol) and captured. A shadowy figure (implied to be Galvatron) oversees the implantation of a device in his brain, and then wipes his mind.[3]
Blackjack was among the Micromasters who appeared in Spotlight: Hardhead who attacked Nightbeat and Hardhead on the planet Gorlam Prime.[4]
Toys
- Generation 1 Micromaster Blackjack (1989)
- A Micromaster. He was redecoed into the Takara exclusive Autobot Micromaster Black Heat.[5]
- Transformers 3D Battle-Card Game Blackjack (2007)
- Produced by Wizards of the Coast, wave 2 of their Transformers 3D Battle-Card Game included a Blackjack card, who was a redeco of Classic Bumblebee from wave 2.
References
- ↑ Blackjack (Decepticon Micromaster Sports Car Patrol, Transformers G1)
- ↑ "Transformers" #56 (September 1st, 1989)
- ↑ http://www.seibertron.com/comics/view.php?comic_id=839
- ↑ http://www.seibertron.com/comics/view.php?comic_id=923
- ↑ Alvarez, J.E. (2001). The Unofficial Guide to Transformers 1980s Through 1990s Revised & Expanded 2nd Edition. Schiffer Publishing Ltd.. p. 86. ISBN 0764313649.
